Isaiah 27:4-13

4 "I have no wrath. Should someone give Me ¹briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, ²I would burn them completely.

5 "Or let him ³rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him ⁴make peace with Me."

6 In the days to come Jacob ⁵will take root, Israel will ⁶blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with ⁷fruit.

7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has ⁸He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

8 You contended with them by banishing them, by ⁹driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the ¹⁰east wind.

9 Therefore through this Jacob's iniquity will be ¹¹forgiven; And this will be the full price of the ¹²pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the ¹³altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

10 For the fortified city is ¹⁴isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; ¹⁵There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

11 When its ¹⁶limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of ¹⁷discernment, Therefore * ¹⁸their Maker ¹⁹will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

12 In that day the LORD ²⁰will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the ²¹Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be ²²gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

13 It will come about also in that day that a great ²³trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of ²⁴Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and ²⁵worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 27:4-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 27

This chapter refers to the same times as the two foregoing ones Isa 25:1-26:21; and is a continuation of the same song, or rather a new one on the same occasion; it is prophetical of the last times, and of what shall be done in them, as the destruction of the antichristian powers, and Satan at the head of them, Isa 27:1 the happy state of the church, and its fruitfulness under the care and protection of the Lord, and his affection for it, Isa 27:2-4 its peace, prosperity, and flourishing condition, Isa 27:5,6 the nature, use, and end of all its afflictions and chastisements, Isa 27:7-9 the ruin and destruction of the city of Rome, and its inhabitants, and of its whole jurisdiction, Isa 27:10,11 a great gathering and conversion of the Lord's people, both Jews and Gentiles, by the ministry of the Gospel, Isa 27:12,13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 25

1. 2 Samuel 23:6; Isaiah 10:17
2. Isaiah 33:12; Matthew 3:12; Hebrews 6:8
3. Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 25:4
4. Job 22:21; Isaiah 26:3, 12; Romans 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:20
5. Isaiah 37:31
6. Isaiah 35:1, 2; Hosea 14:5, 6
7. Isaiah 4:2
8. Isaiah 10:12, 17; Isaiah 30:31-33; Isaiah 31:8, 9; Isaiah 37:36-38
9. Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 54:7
10. Jeremiah 4:11; Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 13:15
11. Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 48:10; Daniel 11:35
12. Romans 11:27
13. Exodus 34:13; Deuteronomy 12:3; 2 Kings 10:26; Isaiah 17:8
14. Isaiah 32:13, 14
15. Isaiah 17:2
16. Isaiah 18:5
17. Deuteronomy 32:28; Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 5:13; Jeremiah 8:7
18. Deuteronomy 32:18; Isaiah 43:1, 7; Isaiah 44:2, 21, 24
19. Isaiah 9:17
20. Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13; Isaiah 56:8
21. Genesis 15:18
22. Deuteronomy 30:3, 4; Nehemiah 1:9
23. Leviticus 25:9; 1 Chronicles 15:24; Matthew 24:31; Revelation 11:15
24. Isaiah 19:24, 25
25. Isaiah 19:21, 23; Isaiah 49:7; Isaiah 66:23; Zechariah 14:16; Hebrews 12:22

Footnotes 12

[a]. Lit "who"
[b]. Lit "altogether"
[c]. Lit "take hold of"
[d]. Lit "Those coming"
[e]. Lit "face of"
[f]. Lit "he was slain"
[g]. Some ancient versions read "by exact measure"
[h]. Lit "all the fruit"
[i]. Lit "removing"
[j]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
[k]. Lit "pasture"
[l]. Lit "consume"

Isaiah 27:4-13

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Isaiah 27:4-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 27

Cross References 25

Footnotes 12