Isaiah 27:13

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 27:13

And it shall come to pass in that day ,.... When the Lord is about to do the above things, and in order to it. The Talmudists F11 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 110. 2. Midrash Kohelet. fol. 68. 3. apply this text to the world to come, or times of the Messiah, when the ten tribes shall be returned: that the great trumpet shall be blown ; meaning not the edict or proclamation of Cyrus, but the ministration of the Gospel, called a "trumpet", in allusion to those that were ordered by Moses... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 27:13

The great trumpet shall be blown - Does not this refer to the time spoken of by our Lord, Matthew 24:31 ; : He shall send forth his angels - the preachers of his Gospel with a great sound of a trumpet - the earnest invitation to be saved by Jesus Christ; and shall gather his elect - the Jews, his ancient chosen people, from the four winds - from all parts of the habitable globe in which they have been dispersed. In this prophet there are several predictions relative to the conversion of... 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 27:12-13

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:13

Restorations prove Divine forgiveness. This is the answering truth to that dwelt on above, in the homily on Isaiah 27:9 ; God in his dealings with man never stops with sentiment. We know that he forgives us, because with the forgiveness he grants us restoration to his favor. Israel had grievously offended Jehovah by his unfaithfulness. Divine indignations had put the offending child away. But the child learned the lessons of judgment. The child came, penitent and humble, seeking... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 27:13

The great trumpet shall be blown - This verse is designed to describe in another mode the same fact as that stated in Isaiah 27:12, that Yahweh would re-collect his scattered people. The figure is derived from the trumpet which was blown to assemble a people for war (Grotius); or from the blowing of the trumpet on occasion of the great feasts and festivals of the Jews (Vitringa). The idea is, that God would summon the scattered people to return to their own land. The “way” in which this was... 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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