John Trapp on Isaiah 13:2

Ver. 2. Life up a Banner] Deus hic quaſi claſſicum canit, God, as Generaliſſimo gives forth his Orders to the Medes and Perſians. He is a man of War, Exod 15.3. yea the Lord victour of War, as the Chaldee there paraphraſeth. See the like, Jer. 50.2.

Ʋpon the High Mountain] Where it may beſt be ſeen, Media is a Mountanous Countrey. Or, contra montem cal[illegible: 1 letter]ginoſum, againſt the dark Mountain. i. e. Babylon, which though ſcituated in a Plain, yet was tu[illegible: 1 letter]ou[illegible: 1 letter]'d up with her wealth and power,Strabo. lib. 16. Curtius. lib. 5. Joſephus l. 10. and ſeemed unmoveable. Famous this City was for an hortus penſilis, an Artificial Garden (made by Nebuchadnezzar for the pleaſure of his Wife Nicotris) which hanging over the City darkeneth it: like as that continual Cloud doth the Iſland of St. Thomas, on the backſide of Africa:

Exalt the voyce unto them, ſhake the hand] Propinquos voce, longinquos ſignificatione adarma convocate: give the alarm to thoſe that are near-hand, and further off.

Junius. That they may go into the gates of the Nobles] Or, of the munificent or Bounteous Lords: for ſuch all Nobles are or ought to be: Our Engliſh word Lord, contracted of the Saxon word Laford, cometh of Luef to ſuſtain or ſuccour others.