The Isles] Or, countreys. Vers. 1. Chap. 42. 10. The lands of the idolatrous nations, enemies to God and his Church; put here for the inhabitants: as vers. 1. Chap. 42. 4.
and feared] Considering my wonderfull works done for my people, they feared that their idolatry would go down.
the ends of the earth] Those that dwell in the remotest parts of the known world. Psalms 65:8. vers. 9. Jeremiah 50:26.
drew near] Assembled themselves, and conspired against me, to maintain their idolatry.