Vers. 3. All yee the inhabitants of the world and dwellers in the earth shall see when he setteth vp a signe in the moun∣taines, and when he bloweth the trump, ye shall heare.
HE shewes that this worke of God shall be so excellent, that the Iewes shall not on∣ly perceiue it, but all the inhabitants of the world also. These words which are put in the future tence, are by some translated in the Impera∣tiue, according to the scripture phrase: but it agrees best to take it in the time to come. As if he should say, euen the people farre off shal ••e witnesses of this calamitie: because all shall behold th•• st••ndard, and shall heare trum∣pets sounding thorowout the world. And hence it shall appeare, that this warre was not raised vp by men; but that God himselfe will shew that he is the only author of it, and that by excellent witnesses. When warres are made euery man discernes what is done openlie: but the greater part of men attri∣bute both the beginnings and issues thereof vnto fortune. Isaiah contrariwise shewes, that all these things ought to be attributed vnto God, because he will plainely manifest his po∣wer by a new and extraordinarie meanes: for he works so sometime, that his hand is hidden, and his worke vnknowne vnto men, And sometimes againe he shewes his power in such wise that euery one is constrained to acknowledge it, and that is it which the Pro∣phet meant to say in this place.