Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
isle—that is, coast on the Mediterranean—Philistia, perhaps Phœnicia (compare Isaiah 23:2; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 13:22; Psalms 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.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 20:6:
Genesis 10:5
Isaiah 10:7
Isaiah 20:1
Isaiah 23:2
Isaiah 43:26
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