6 In the days to come Jacob will take root , Israel will blossom and sprout , And they will fill the whole world with fruit .
7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain , have they been slain ? 8 You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away . With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind . 9 Therefore through this Jacob's iniquity will be forgiven ; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin : When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones ; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand . 10 For the fortified city is isolated , A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert ; There the calf will graze , And there it will lie down and feed on its branches . 11 When its limbs are dry , they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment , Therefore e their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them. 12 In that day the Lord will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt , and you will be gathered up one by one , O sons of Israel . 13 It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown , and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 27:6-13
Commentary on Isaiah 27:6-13
(Read Isaiah 27:6-13)
In the days of the gospel, the latter days, the gospel church shall be more firmly fixed than the Jewish church, and shall spread further. May our souls be continually watered and kept, that we may abound in the fruits of the Spirit, in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. The Jews yet are kept a separate and a numerous people; they have not been rooted out as those who slew them. The condition of that nation, through so many ages, forms a certain proof of the Divine origin of the Scriptures; and the Jews live amongst us, a continued warning against sin. But though winds are ever so rough, ever so high, God can say to them, Peace, be still. And though God will afflict his people, yet he will make their afflictions to work for the good of their souls. According to this promise, since the captivity in Babylon, no people have shown such hatred to idols and idolatry as the Jews. And to all God's people, the design of affliction is to part between them and sin. The affliction has done us good, when we keep at a distance from the occasions of sin, and use care that we may not be tempted to it. Jerusalem had been defended by grace and the Divine protection; but when God withdrew, she was left like a wilderness. This has awfully come to pass. And this is a figure of the deplorable state of the vineyard, the church, when it brought forth wild grapes. Sinners flatter themselves they shall not be dealt with severely, because God is merciful, and is their Maker. We see how weak those pleas will be. Verses 12,13, seem to predict the restoration of the Jews after the Babylonish captivity, and their recovery from their present dispersion. This is further applicable to the preaching of the gospel, by which sinners are gathered into the grace of God; the gospel proclaims the acceptable year of the Lord. Those gathered by the sounding of the gospel trumpet, are brought in to worship God, and added to the church; and the last trumpet will gather the saints together.