After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land [that is] brought back from the sword, [and is] gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Ver. 8. After many days thou shalt be visited,] sc., By mine heaviest judgments; for "shall not God avenge his own elect … though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily." Luk 18:7-8
In the latter years thou shalt come into the land.] Antiochus, that little antichrist, did, and made havoc. It is the opinion of some very grave divines that the great antichrist, before his abolition, shall once again overflow the whole face of the west; Quod Deus avertat. because God may turn away.
Which have been always waste,] i.e., A long while.