Isa 20:6, 23:6 | JFB | STEP | 6. isle —that is, coast on the Mediterranean—Philistia, perhaps Ph nicia (compare ). we —emphatical; if Egypt, in which we trusted, was overcome, how shall we, a small weak state, escape?

Isaiah 20:6

6. isle—that is, coast on the Mediterranean—Philistia, perhaps Ph nicia (compare Isa 23:2; 11:11; 13:22; Ps 72:10).

we—emphatical; if Egypt, in which we trusted, was overcome, how shall we, a small weak state, escape?

Isaiah 23:6

6. Pass . . . over—Escape from Tyre to your colonies as Tarshish (compare Isa 23:12). The Tyrians fled to Carthage and elsewhere, both at the siege under Nebuchadnezzar and that under Alexander.