Isaiah 27:13 - Exposition

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 Jehovah "sets his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people" ( Isaiah 11:11 ). The outcasts (comp. Isaiah 11:12 ).