What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD has founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. . Verses 28-32: Oracle of Palestine: This passage ends with further assurance of the longevity of Israel and the demise of all her enemies. As Isaiah has already outlined, not only will Assyria and Babylon be gone while Israel is still in existence, and as we have seen, Moab and Edom will also disappear while Israel will rise again to prominence, so also here is the demise of Philistia briefly described with the assurance that those who put their trust in the future of Zion will not be disappointed. The Philistines were conquered by the Assyrians in Isaiah’s lifetime. Isaiah foresaw that the Assyrians would pass away but alas for Philistia, a worse scourge in the form of the Babylonians would then overcome them. In the events that followed according to Isaiah’s predictions the Babylonians did succeed the Assyrians and destroyed the Philistine cities and they lost their political national and cultural identity
