Isaiah 27:8-13

8 You contended with them by banishing them, by ¹driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the ²east wind.

9 Therefore through this Jacob's iniquity will be ³forgiven; And this will be the full price of the ⁴pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the ⁵altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

10 For the fortified city is ⁶isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; ⁷There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

11 When its ⁸limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of ⁹discernment, Therefore * ¹⁰their Maker ¹¹will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

12 In that day the LORD ¹²will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the ¹³Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be ¹⁴gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

13 It will come about also in that day that a great ¹⁵trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of ¹⁶Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and ¹⁷worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 27:8-13 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 17

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

Footnotes 6

[a]. Some ancient versions read "by exact measure"
[b]. Lit "all the fruit"
[c]. Lit "removing"
[d]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
[e]. Lit "pasture"
[f]. Lit "consume"

Isaiah 27:8-13

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Isaiah 27:8-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 27

Cross References 17

Footnotes 6