Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 56:9

9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forrest .

This invitation or proclamation is a prediction of Israel's Destruction by their cruel Enemies, which are oft expressed in Scripture under the names of ravenous Beasts. But the great Question is, What connexion this part of the Chapter hath with the former? Which may be thus conceived: The prophet having largely dis[illegible: 1+ letters]sed concerning the Messiah, and his Church and Kingdom, and particularly of the great accession and conversion of the Gentiles to it, and of the Infidelity, Apostacy, and manifold Wickednesses of the Jewish Nation, and having comforted and encouraged the Gentiles with Gods gracious promises made to them, he now proceeds to terrifie the unbelieving and ungodly Jews, and to shew that as the Gentiles should believe, and be saved, so they should reject their Messiah, and be utterly destroyed; although we need not labour much about the coherence: For this may be a new Sermon, and therefore many learned Interpreters make this the beginning of the 57th Chapter.