Verse 11
11. Thy gates… open continually… day nor night The gates of Zion, because thus open, denote the unremitting influx of converted new comers.
Forces of the Gentiles “Forces” not unlikely their wealth as well as their people. (See Isaiah 60:5.)
Their kings That these may be “brought bound, or in chains,” ( Chaldee Paraph.;) “pompously attended,” ( Lowth;) “with their retinues,” ( Noyes.) But the Hebrew rather means, that they may be brought or led, in any way, (as by the force of truth,) to serve Jehovah. The following, however, is quite as likely to be the idea intended: that their kings may be led in as captives to grace the triumph of the true religion, after a long time making themselves brave against it.
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