Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 5:17

17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner , and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

When God shall have finished that Work of Judgment upon the Ungodly, he will extend Mercy to a Remainder. This is very usual in this Prophet, in the midst of his Threat [illegible: 1+ letters] to insert something for the support of Believers.

[illegible: 1 word] poor and harmless People, who shall be left in the Land when the Rich are carried into Captivity, as it fell out 2 Kings 25. 12.

Or, by their fold, as this Word is manifestly used Mic. 2. 12. the onely place of Scripture, except this, in which this Word is found.

The Lands left by their Owners, who were either slain, or carried into Captivity.

Of the Rich and Great men, so called Psal. 22. 29. & 78. 31. Isa. 10. 16.

The poor Israelites, who were left to be vine-dressers and husbandmen, 2 Kings 25. 12. who are called strangers, because they were so in reference to that Land, not being the proper Owners of it, nor related to them; as the Israelites of other Tribes are called strangers, in opposition to the Levites, as Numb. 1. 51. and elsewhere; yea, and the Levites are so called, in opposition to the Seed of Aaron, Numb. 16. 40.