Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 51:19

19 These two things are come unto thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee ?

Either 1. Those who were now▪mentioned, 1. that she was drunk with the cup of Gods Wrath, v. 17. 2. that she had none to support or comfort her in that condition. Or 2. Those which here follow, which although they be expressed in four words, yet they may fitly be reduced to two things, the desolation or devastation of the Land, and the destruction of the People, by Famine & Sword. So Famine and Sword are not named as new evils, but only as the particular ways or means of bringing the destruction there mentioned, and the words may be thus rendred, desolation and destruction, even (this Hebrew particle being oft taken expositively, whereof many instances have been given) famine (or, by famine) and sword. Or, two may be put indefinitely for many, as double is put for abundantly more, Iob 11. 6. Isa. 40. 2. & 61. 7. Zech. 9, 12. & elsewhere.

I cannot find any man who is able to comfort and relieve thee.

Marginal references: Ch. 47. 9.; Heb. [illegible: 1+ letters]appened.; Heb. breaking.