Isaiah 27:7-11

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 27:7

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him ?.... No; the Lord does smite his people by afflictive dispensations of his providence; he smites them in their persons, and families, and estates; see Isaiah 57:17 as he smote Israel, by suffering them to be carried captive, and as the Jews are now smitten by him in their present state; yet not as he smote Pharaoh, with his ten plagues, and him and his host at the Red Sea; or as he smote Sennacherib and his army, by an angel, in one... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:8

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it ,.... Or, "when he sendeth it forth" F24 בשלחה "in emittendo eam", Montanus. ; when God sends forth an affliction on his people, or gives it a commission to them, as all are sent by him, he does it with moderation; he proportions it to their strength, and will not suffer them to be afflicted above what they are able to bear; and as, in afflicting, he debates and contends with his people, having a controversy with them, so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:9

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ,.... Or "expiated", or "atoned" F1 יכפר "propitiabitur", Pagninus, Montanus; "expiabitur", Piscator. ; not that afflictions are atonements for sin, or give satisfaction to divine justice for it; but they are the means of bringing the Lord's people to a sense of their sins, and to repentance and humiliation for them, and confession of them, and of leading them to the blood and sacrifice of Christ, by which they are expiated and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:10

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate ,.... Or "but", or "notwithstanding" F2 כי "sed", Junius & Tremellius, Forerius; "tamen, nihilominus", Calvin. ; though the Lord deals mercifully with his own people, and mixes mercy with their afflictions, and causes them to issue well, and for their good; yet he does not deal so with others, his and their enemies: for by the "defenced city" is not meant Jerusalem, as many interpret it, so Kimchi; nor Samaria, as Aben Ezra; nor literal... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off ,.... This city is compared to a tree, whose branches are not only gnawed and consumed by cattle, as in the former verse Isaiah 27:10 ; but which, in a hot dry summer, are withered and dried up, and so are easily broken, and are fit for nothing but the fire; hence it follows: the women come and set them on fire ; or "gather" them F6 So Abendana in Miclol Yophi observes, this is the sense some give of the word, taking... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 27:9

The groves "And if the groves" - ולא velo . Four MSS., two ancient, of Kennicott's, and one ancient of my own, with the Septuagint; this makes a fuller sense. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 27:10

There shall the calf feed - That is, the king of Egypt, says Kimchi. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 27:11

The boughs thereof "Her boughs" - קציריה ketsireyha , MS. and Vulg.; that is, the boughs of the vineyard, referring still to the subject of the dialogue above. The scarcity of fuel, especially wood, in most parts of the east is so great, that they supply it with every thing capable of burning; cow-dung dried, roots, parings of fruit, withered stalks of herbs and flowers; see Matthew 6:21-30 . Vine-twigs are particularly mentioned as used for fuel in dressing their food, by D'Arvieux;... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 27:1-11

God's treatment of the rebellious and the righteous. Amid the different and difficult interpretations and the numerous and dubious applications given to these verses, we may discern some truths respecting God's treatment of human character. I. HIS TREATMENT OF THE WICKED . 1. The sharpness of his instruments . He punishes with "a sore and great and strong sword" ( Isaiah 27:1 ) He "whets his glitter-nag sword ( Deuteronomy 32:41 ). Out of the mouth of the Son of God... read more

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