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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 27:7-13

Here is the prophet again singing of mercy and judgment, not, as before, judgment to the enemies and mercy to the church, but judgment to the church and mercy mixed with that judgment. I. Here is judgment threatened even to Jacob and Israel. They shall blossom and bud (Isa. 27:6), but, 1. They shall be smitten and slain (Isa. 27:7), some of them shall. If God find any thing amiss among them, he will lay them under the tokens of his displeasure for it. Judgment shall begin at the house of God,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:12

And it shall come to pass in that day ,.... When the song will be sung, Isaiah 27:2 when God will appear to have taken particular care of his church, and is about to bring it into a flourishing condition; when its troubles and afflictions will come to an end, with a sanctified use of them; and when the city of Rome will be destroyed, and all the antichristian powers, then will be the conversion of the Jews; for antichrist stands in the way of that work: that the Lord shall beat off ;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 27:12

The channel of the river - The river Sabbation, beyond which the Israelites were carried captive. - Kimchi. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:1-13

In that day. We have here a general picture of the events which precede the condition of the inauguration of a new era. I. THE FIGHT WITH THE MONSTER OR MONSTERS . We cannot enter into the subject of this symbolism, in reference to which, in the absence of definite information, so much of fanciful interpretation has gathered. We cannot refer the serpent or the dragon to the storm-cloud, or lightning, as some have done; nor historically to Egypt and Assyria. Something much... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 27:12

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off - The word which is used here (חבט châbaṭ) means properly “to beat off with a stick,” as fruit from a tree Deuteronomy 20:20. It also means to beat out grain with a stick Judges 6:11; Ruth 2:17 The word which is rendered in the other member of the sentence, ‘shall be gathered’ (לקט lâqaṭ), is applied to the act of “collecting” fruit after it has been beaten from a tree, or grain after it has been threshed. The use of these... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 27:12-13

Isaiah 27:12-13. It shall come to pass, &c., that the Lord shall beat off Or, beat out: which is not meant in the way of punishment, but as an act of mercy, as is evident from the following clause of this, and of the next verse: the sense is, He shall sever, and take from among the nations, and gather together, like thrashed corn into the garner; from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt All the Israelites that are scattered in those parts. It is a metaphor taken from... read more

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