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Then shalt thou see, viz. with a great deal of delight, the multitudes of thy children running to thee.
Flow together; as when one river meeting with another and joining waters, run sweetly together, as one and the same river: this notes the abundance of their united joys and delights; or they shall flock together to behold such an amazing sight.
Thine heart shall fear; as standing amazed to see such multitudes come in to the Lord Christ; See Poole "Isa_44:1", See Poole "Isa_44:2", &c.; as it were surprised with it, as those Ac 2 7, or overwhelmed with the joyful sight, as Jacob was with the tidings of Joseph, Gen_45:26, and those of the circumcision that were with Act_10:45: such a mixture of fear and joy you have expressed Jer_33:9; the sense is much the same with Isa_49:18.
Be enlarged, both with joy and love; joy within at the coming in of the Gentiles, and this outwardly expressed in the enlargedness of love and charity towards them. Fear doth properly contract the heart, therefore this expression intimates it to be a fear mixed with such an affection as will dilate it.
The abundance of the sea; either the islands of the sea, viz. the nations, as before, a metonymy of the subject, shall turn to thee, in religion or affection; they that formerly so much hated thee (they that live by the sea-coasts being usually noted for the worst of men) shall now love thee: or the wealth and traffic of those that trade by sea, the riches of the merchant; and so possibly the prophet may allude to Psa_72:10, for Tarshish is sometimes taken for the sea, as hath been before showed: see on 1Ki_10:22.
Shall be converted unto thee; thy traders shall not so much convert their riches to their own use as to thine.
The forces; or, wealth; thou shalt not have only the wealth, but the strength of the nations, to stand by thee, which hath also an eye, as in the type, to that readiness and willingness that would be in the nations to help them out of Babylon.