John Trapp on Isaiah 8:4

Ver. 4. For before the child, &c.] That is within a year or two: for it was an extraordinary thing that is reported of Maximilian the Emperour that he was eight year old at leaſt ere he ſpake any thing: but afterwards he became a fluent and elegant Speaker.

The riches of Damaſcus] Riches do many times change their maſters; and Kingdoms are oft turned upſide down, when they fall to perſecuting the people of God eſpecially, as did theſe Syrians and Iſraelites.

Before the King of Aſſyria] Spoils taken from the enemy were and are uſually carried in triumph before the Conqueror.