Deeds, Heb. recompences or deserts, i.e. he will recompense his adversaries with those effects of his fury that they have deserved. Fury; a metonymy of the efficient, for the effects of his fury. Islands; or, islanders; a metonymy of the containing for the contained; either Mesopotamia, and other adjacent islands, encompassed by Tigris and Euphrates; or those remoter nations (for the Hebrews call nations remote from Judea islands, Genesis 10:5 Isaiah 41:1. See Poole on "Isaiah 20:6", and the reason of it) under the king of Babylon, that thought themselves secure.
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Isaiah 59:18
18 According to their deeds,d accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.