Isaiah 43:14,15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 43:14-15, Thus saith the Lord— In these verses the prophet foretels, and typically describes the benefit of deliverance from the Babylonish captivity, which God would perform for his people. The meaning, is, "I have sent to Babylon the Medes and Persians, with Cyrus at their head, who shall besiege Babylon, and that with so great consternation of the citizens and soldiers, that all of them, prepared for flight, and among the rest the Chaldeans, who were esteemed the best soldiers, shall fly with all imaginable speed to the vessels and boats which they have prepared to convey the commodities and luxuries of the Babylonians up the river Euphrates, in order to escape the hands of the Medes and Persians." The latter part of the 14th verse is rendered by Vitringa, And have made all their fugitives, even the Chaldeans, go down into their pleasure-boats.