The LORD says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 14. Stature: the people of Saba were the tallest and best proportioned in Arabia. Agathar. verse 50.—Cyrus possessed all these countries. He sent the Egyptians home in the third year of his reign, at Babylon, A. 3470. Ezekiel 29:11. They never became subject to the Jews; but embraced the religion of Christ, acknowledging him for God. verse 15. Calmet.—Besides thee. Prot. “Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, there is no God.” Those whom we have hitherto adored, deserved not the name. Vulg. and Septuagint make the people address Christ, the God-man. Bible.