Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 64:10

10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation .

Either Sion, and [illegible: 1 word], being th[illegible: 1+ letters] Cities they instance in, q. d. Thy holy Cities, viz. S[illegible: 1+ letters]on, and [illegible: 1 word]: Or rather, other Cities also in the Land of [illegible: 1 word], besides those two, called H[illegible: 1+ letters]ly; Either, 1. Because they were built upon God's [illegible: 1+ letters]nheritance, Chap. 63 17. Or, 2. Because they were inhabited by the I[illegible: 1+ letters]ws, who were an holy People, Deu. 7. 6. Da[illegible: 1+ letters]. 12. 7. Or, 3. Because God had his Synagogues in them▪ Psal. 74. 8. For all which reasons also they are called Thy Cities.

Utterly wa[illegible: 1+ letters]t, not on[illegible: 1+ letters]ly the ordinary Cities, but even Ierus[illegible: 1+ letters]lem, and Sion themselves, the one called the upper [illegible: 1 word], or, the City of David, because it was built upon Mount Sion; the other the [illegible: 1 word] City, because it lay under the Hill of Sion in the Valley; he particularizeth Sion and [illegible: 1 word], though he had mentioned the other Cities before, because the chiefest of the Cities, it being usual notwithstanding the mentioning of generals, in which all the particulars, or individuals, are included to name the particular again; as, and from the [illegible: 1 word] of [illegible: 1 word], Psal. 18. title.