What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the
nation?
&c.] Or nations, of any of the nations. Not the messengers
sent to Hezekiah, ( Isaiah 39:1 ) but
rather such as were sent to him, to congratulate him upon his
victory over the Philistines; or any others that were sent, and
came from other nations, that inquired about these matters, and
the answer returned is, That the Lord hath founded
Zion;
and not Hezekiah; he had given his people victory over their
enemies, and protected, defended, and established them, and
therefore ought to have all the glory: and the poor of his
people shall trust in it;
or, "betake themselves to it"; as to a place of safety, being
founded by the Lord, and under his protection. So the church of
God, which often goes by the name of Zion in Scripture, is of his
founding; he has laid Christ as the foundation of it, and such as
are sensible of their spiritual poverty, misery, and danger,
trust in him; not in Zion, but in the foundation God has laid in
Zion, or built his church upon.