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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Isaiah 20:6

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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isle--that is, coast on the Mediterranean--Philistia, perhaps Phœnicia (compare Isa 23:2; Isa 11:11; Isa 13:22; Psa 72:10). we--emphatical; if Egypt, in which we trusted, was overcome, how shall we, a small weak state, escape? He does not narrate the event, but graphically supposes himself a watchman in Babylon, beholding the events as they pass. Next: Isaiah Chapter 21
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