Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 60:5

5 Then shalt thou see , and flow , together, and thine heart shall fear , and be enlarged , because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee , the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

viz. With a great deal of delight the multitudes of thy Children running to thee.

As when one River meeting with another and joining Waters, run sweetly together as one and the same River, this notes the abundance▪ of their united Joys and delights; or they shall flock together to behold such an amazing fight.

As standing amazed to see such multitudes come in to the Lord Christ, see on Chap, 54. 1, 2. &c. As it were surprized with it, as those, Act. 2. 7. or, overwhelmed with the joyfull sight, as Iacob was with the tydings of Ioseph, Gen. 45. 26. and those of the Circumcision, that were with Peter, Act. 10. 45. such a mixture of fear and [illegible: 1+ letters]oy you have expressed, Ier. 33▪ 9. the sense is much the same with, Chap. 49. 18.

Both with Joy, and love; Joy within at the coming in of the Gentiles, and this outwardly expressed in the enlargedness of love, and Charity towards them. Fear doth properly contract the heart, therefore this expression intimates it to be a fear mixed with such an affection as will[illegible: 1+ letters]dilate it.

Either the Islands of the Sea, viz. the Nations as before a Meto[illegible: 1+ letters]ymy of the subject, shall turn to thee in Religion, or Affection, they that formerly so much hated thee (they that live by the Sea coasts being usually noted for the worst of men) shall now love thee; or, the wealth, and traffick of those, that trade by Sea, the Riches of the Merchant, and so possibly the Prophet may allude to Psa. 72. 10. for Tharsis is sometimes taken for the Sea, as hath been before shewed: see on, 1 Kin. 10. 22.

Thy traders shall not so much convert their Riches to their own use as to thine.

Or wealth, thou shalt not have only the wealth, but the strength of the Nations to stand by thee, which hath also an Eye, as in the type, to that readiness, and willingness that would be in the Nations to help them out of Babylon.

Marginal references: Or, shin[illegible: 1+ letters].; Or, noise of▪ the sea shall be turned toward thee.