Isaiah 27

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:8

Our translators have entirely mistaken the meaning of this verse. The proper rendering is, In measure , when thou puttest her away , thou wilt contend with her ; he sighed with his keen breath in the day of the east wind . "In measure" means "with forbearance and moderation"—the punishment being carefully adjusted to the degree of the offence. God was about to "put Judah away"—to banish her into a far country; but still he would refrain himself—he would "not suffer his whole... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:9

By this ; i.e. "by the punishment inflicted." God accepts punishment as an expiation of sin; and this punishment of Judah was especially intended to be expiatory, and to remove at once his guilt, and the evil temper which had led him into sin. Its fruit would be a revulsion from idolatry, which would show itself in a fierce determination to destroy all idolatrous emblems and implements, altars, groves, images , and the like. This spirit was strongly shown in the Maccabee period (see 1... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:9

Repentance proved in deeds. The first clause may be translated thus: "On these terms shall the guilt of Jacob be purged." There must be the signs of reformation—the actual destruction of idols and all idol-associations, as the proof and manifestation of the declared heart-surrender of idolatry. The child's verse is correct theology and practical godliness— "Repentance is to leave The sins we loved before; And show that we in earnest grieve, By doing so no more." The very "stones... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:10

Yet the defensed city shall be desolate . Though her punishment is in mercy, as a chastisement which is to purge away her sin, yet Jerusalem shall for a time be desolate, void, without inhabitant, left like a wilderness. Forsaken ; or, put away ; the same word that is used in Isaiah 27:8 of Jerusalem. There shall the calf feed . A familiar image of desolation (comp. Isaiah 5:17 ; Isaiah 17:2 ; Isaiah 32:14 , etc.). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off. By a sudden introduction of metaphor, the city becomes a tree, the prophet's thought going back, perhaps, to Isaiah 27:6 . "Withered boughs" are indications of internal rottenness, and must be "broken off" to give the tree a chance of recovery. Samaria may be viewed as such a "bough," if the "tree" be taken as "the Israel of God" in the wider sense. Otherwise, we must suppose a threat against individual Judaeans. The women... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12

The Lord shall beat off ; i.e. "gather in his harvest." The metaphor is taken either from the beating of olive trees to obtain the berries (see Isaiah 17:6 ), or from the beating out of the grain by a threshing-flail ( 6:11 ; Ruth 2:17 ; and below. Isaiah 28:27 ). Perhaps the best translation would be, The Lord shall thresh . From the channel of the river ; rather, from the strong stream of the river . As usual, "the river" ( hannahar ) is the Euphrates (comp. ... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12

The Israel of God gathered in and garnered one by one. While Scripture often speaks broadly of the call and conversion of nations, it yet, to an attentive reader, is continually proclaiming the fact that salvation is an individual matter. No privileges of birth or covenant, of Church-membership or Church-position, assure any one who has come to years of discretion that he is among the saved, or can make up for the want of personal fitness, personal faith, personal sincerity. God is very... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12-13

JUDAH PROMISED RESTORATION . The general practice of Isaiah is to append to gloomy prophecies words of encouragement He does this even when heathen nations are denounced ( Isaiah 18:7 ; Isaiah 19:18-25 ; Isaiah 23:17 , Isaiah 23:18 ); and still more when he is predicting judgments upon Israel ( Isaiah 2:2-4 ; Isaiah 6:13 ; Isaiah 10:20-34 ; Isaiah 24:23 ; Isaiah 29:18-24 , etc.). The encouragement in this place is a promise of return after dispersion, and of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12-13

The return of God's absent ones. In the relation of God to his people in exile, as depicted in these two verses, we may find a picture of the relation in which he stands to all his absent children. I. THE BREADTH OF HIS KINGDOM : the broad fields of the husbandman, in which he might "beat off" fruit, from the far river in the East to the far river in the West—from end to end of the known earth. God's rights and claims extend to all peoples, to all classes, to men of every... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:13

The great trumpet shall be blown ; rather, a great trumpet (comp. Matthew 24:31 ; 1 Corinthians 15:52 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:16 ). This imagery, and the return of the Israelites from Egypt and Assyria , point rather to the final gathering of Israel into the Church triumphant than to the return from the Babylonian captivity. Egypt and Assyria were certainly not the countries from which they came chiefly at that time. But they are the countries from which they will chiefly come when... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:13

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