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Zion is now exhorted, as in Isa 49:18, to lift up her eyes, and turn them in all directions; for she is the object sought by an approaching multitude. “Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all crowd together, they come to thee: thy sons come from afar, and thy daughters are carried hither upon arms.” The multitude that are crowding together and coming near are the diaspora of her sons and daughters that have been scattered far away (Isa 11:12), and whom the heathen that are now drawing near to her bring with them, conducting them and carrying them, so that they cling “to the side” (Isa 66:12) of those who are carrying them upon their arms and shoulders (Isa 49:22). תֵּאָמַנָה is softened from תאמַנָּה, the pausal form for אתמֵנָה (compare the softening in Rth 1:13), from אָמַן, to keep, fasten, support; whence אֹמֵן, אֹמֶנֶת, a foster-father, a nurse who has a child in safe keeping.