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Deeds, Heb. recompences or deserts, i.e. he will recompense his adversaries with those effects of his fury that they have deserved.
Fury; a metonymy of the efficient, for the effects of his fury.
Islands; or, islanders; a metonymy of the containing for the contained; either Mesopotamia, and other adjacent islands, encompassed by Tigris and Euphrates; or those remoter nations (for the Hebrews call nations remote from Judea islands, Gen_10:5 Isa_41:1. See Poole "Isa_20:6", and the reason of it) under the king of Babylon, that thought themselves secure.