“These verses reveal the judgment of destruction, which Isaiah lived to witness, against Philistia. The Philistines were long-time enemies of Israel, and warfare between the two peoples had gone on for centuries. … In Roman times, the Holy Land was known as Judea until the Jewish revolt of A.D. 132–35, after which the Emperor Hadrian changed the name to Syria Palaestina to show the Jews that they had no claim there any longer.
“The King James Version used the Latin form and called it ‘Palestina,’ but what is meant is the Philistines, not Palestine, as the terms are used today” (Old Testament Student Manual, 155).