Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 59:18
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Isaiah59:18
18 According to their deeds , accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies, to the islands he will repay recompense.
Heb. Recompenses or deserts, i. e. he will recompense his Adversaries with those effects of his fury that they have deserved.
A Metonymy of the Efficient; for the effects of his fury.
Or, Islanders, a Metonymy of the containing for the contained, either Mesopotamia, and other adjacent Islands, encompassed by Tygris and Euphrates; or those remoter Nations (for the Hebrews call Nations remote from Iudaea Islands, Gen. 10. 5. ch. 41. 1. See on ch. 20. 6. and the reason of it.) under the King of Babylon, that thought themselves secure.
Marginal references: Ch. 63▪ 6.; Heb. recompenses, or, deser[illegible: 1+ letters]s.
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