Isaiah 26:15

15. Increased the nation The nation of reclaimed and purified Jews. Their enlargement was by successive colonies from the East for a hundred years after the first return from Babylon. Also, as the next clause asserts, ( thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth,) by growth from proselytes made outside of Judea; though the law of parallelism requires “the ends of the earth” to mean the farthest limits of the literal land of Israel. So Lowth and Noyes. But this is too mechanical for poetry. Frequently the prophet contemplates the new Israel as extending to the converted of all nations of the earth.