What hitherto he said of princes, he now applies to nations and people, whom God doth either increase or diminish as he pleaseth. He enlargeth the nations; he multiplies them, so that they are forced to send forth colonies into other lands. Straiteneth them again; or, leadeth them in, or bringeth them back, into their own land, and confineth them there.
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Job 12:23
23 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straitenethg them again.