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These shall come from far; my people shall be called and gathered even from the most remote parts of the earth. He speaks here, and in many other places, of the conversion of the Gentiles, with allusion to that work of gathering and bringing back the Jews from all parts where they were dispersed into their own land.
From the north and from the west; from the several parts of the world; which are here synecdochically expressed, as they are in many other places.
From the land of Sinim; either of the Sinites, as they are called, Gen_10:17, who dwelt about the wilderness of Sin, which was southward from Judea; or of Sin, a famous city of Egypt, called the strength of Egypt, which may be synecdochically put for all Egypt, and that for all southern parts. And so he here mentions the several quarters of the world, where the generality of the Jews were dispersed; the north, which is every where named as the chief place of their banishment and dispersion, as Jer_16:15 31:8, and elsewhere; the west, the western countries and islands; and the south.