Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 66:10

10 Rejoyce ye with Hierusalem, and be glad with her all ye that love her: rejoyce for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her .

There is nothing more ordinary amongst men, then for friends, and neighbours, to meet together with their friends recovered from affliction, or brought into a better state to rejoice with them especially such friends as in their afflictions have mourned with them. Thus Mary, Luk. 1. 40. went to rejoice with Elizabeth and Iobs friends came to rejoice with him, Iob 42. 11. The Prophet in like manner calls to all the friends of Hierusalem, especially such as in the days of her affliction had mourned for her, to come and [illegible: 1+ letters] joice and be glad with her, upon the prospect of her better state after the Babylonish Captivity: or at least in the time of the Messiah, for though joy and gladness be the affection of the Soul that works upon its union with its desirable object, and the deliverance of the people out of Babylon was not to be for many years after this, nor the M[illegible: 1+ letters]ssias to come▪ or many years after that, yet faith being the evidence of things not seen, there is a rejoicing of hope, hope giving the Soul an union with its object hoped for, and these things were now pr[illegible: 1+ letters]sent to believers who by faith called the things that were not as if they were: because they had the security of a divine Revelation for them, and they were already existent in their necessary causes.