Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 49:12

12. Behold these shall come from farr : and loe, these from the North, and from the West , and these from the land of Sinim .

My People shall be called and gathered even from the most remote parts of the earth. He speaks here, and in many other places of the Conversion of the Gentiles with allusion to that work of gathering, and bringing back the Iews from all parts, where they were dispersed into their own Land.

From the several parts of the world; which are here synecdochically expressed, as they are in many other places.

Either of the Sinites, as they are called, Gen. 1[illegible: 1+ letters], 17. who dwelt about the Wilderness of Sin, which was Southward from Iudea: Or, of Sin, a famous City of Egypt, called the strength of Egypt, which may be synecdochically put for all Egypt, and that for all southern parts. And so he here mentions the several quarters of the World, where the generality of the Iews were dispersed; the North, which is every where named as the chief place of their banishment and dispersion, as Ier. 16. 15. and 31. 8. and elsewhere; the West, the western Countries and Islands, and the South.