Isaiah 27:8-13

8 By warfare^[a] and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

9 By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles^[b] or incense altars will be left standing.

10 The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

13 And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in 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 25

1. Isaiah 49:14; Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 54:7
2. S Genesis 41:6
3. S Psalms 78:38
4. Romans 11:27*
5. S Exodus 23:24
6. S Exodus 34:13
7. S Leviticus 26:30; S 2 Chronicles 14:5
8. S Genesis 1:2; S Deuteronomy 13:16; Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 32:14; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 26:6; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 5:18
9. S Isaiah 5:5
10. S Isaiah 5:17
11. Isaiah 17:2
12. S Isaiah 10:33
13. S ver 4; Isaiah 33:12
14. S Deuteronomy 32:28; S Isaiah 1:3; Jeremiah 8:7
15. Deuteronomy 32:18; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 43:1,7,15; Isaiah 44:1-2,21,24
16. S Isaiah 9:17; Jeremiah 11:16
17. S Isaiah 21:10; Matthew 3:12
18. S Genesis 15:18
19. S Deuteronomy 30:4; S Isaiah 1:9; S Isaiah 11:12; S Isaiah 17:6
20. S ver 1
21. S Leviticus 25:9; S Judges 3:27; S Matthew 24:31
22. S Psalms 106:47
23. S Isaiah 10:19; Isaiah 19:21,25
24. S Genesis 27:29; S Psalms 22:29; S Psalms 86:9
25. S Isaiah 2:2

Footnotes 2

[a]. See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
[b]. That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Isaiah 27:8-13

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Isaiah 27:8-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 27

Cross References 25

Footnotes 2