Isaiah 27:7-13 NIV

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

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

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 27:9

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:7

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

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

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

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 27:13

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

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

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