Keep silence before me, O coastlands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together for judgment.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Islands, near Asia, whose conversion Isaias often predicts, (Calmet) as he does that of all nations. (Haydock)
God continues to prove his divinity, (Calmet) expostulating with idolaters, whose conversion is insinuated, and among the rest that of Britain, which is the most renowned island in Europe. (Bristow, anot. 11.) (Worthington)