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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Isaiah 27"
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TWENTY-FOURTH,
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TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTERS. At the time when Israel shall be
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CHAPTER 27

. CONTINUATION OF THE
TWENTY-FOURTH,
TWENTY-FIFTH, AND
TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTERS.
At the time when Israel shall be
delivered, and the ungodly nations punished, God shall punish also
the great enemy of the Church.

**1. sore**—rather, "hard,"
"well-tempered."
**leviathan**—literally, in
*Arabic,* "the twisted animal," applicable to every
great tenant of the waters, sea-serpents, crocodiles, c. In [Ezekiel 29:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/29/3)
[Ezekiel 32:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/32/2); [Daniel 7:1](../../../kjv/daniel/7/1);
[Revelation 12:3](../../../kjv/revelation/12/3), c., potentates hostile
to Israel are similarly described antitypically and ultimately Satan
is intended ([Revelation 20:10](../../../kjv/revelation/20/10)).
**piercing**—rigid [LOWTH].
Flying [MAURER and
*Septuagint*]. Long, extended, namely, as the crocodile which
cannot readily bend back its body [HOUBIGANT].
**crooked**—winding.
**dragon**—*Hebrew,
tenin;* the crocodile.
**sea**—the Euphrates, or
the expansion of it near Babylon.

**2.** In that day when leviathan
shall be destroyed, the vineyard (), the Church of God, purged of its blemishes, shall be
*lovely* in God's eyes; to bring out this sense the better,
LOWTH, by changing a
*Hebrew* letter, reads "pleasant," "lovely,"
for "red wine."
**sing**—a *responsive*
song [LOWTH].
**unto her**—rather,
"concerning her" (see on ); namely, the Jewish state [MAURER].

**3. lest any hurt it**—attack it
[MAURER]. "Lest aught
be wanting in her" [HORSLEY].

**4. Fury is not in me**—that is,
I entertain no longer anger towards my vine.
**who would set . . . in
battle**—that is, would that I had the briers, c. (the wicked foe
[Isaiah 9:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/18); [Isaiah 10:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/17);
[2 Samuel 23:6](../../../kjv/2-samuel/23/6)), before me! "I
would go through," or rather, "*against* them."

**5. Or**—Else; the only
alternative, if Israel's enemies wish to escape being "burnt
together."
**strength**—rather, "the
refuge which I afford" [MAURER].
"Take hold," refers to the horns of the altar which
fugitives often *laid hold* of as an asylum ([1 Kings 1:50](../../../kjv/1-kings/1/50);
[1 Kings 2:28](../../../kjv/1-kings/2/28)). Jesus is God's
"strength," or "refuge" which sinners must repair
to and take hold of, if they are to have "peace" with God
([Isaiah 45:24](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/24); [Romans 5:1](../../../kjv/romans/5/1);
[Ephesians 2:14](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/14); compare [Ephesians 2:14](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/14)).

**6. He**—Jehovah. Here the song
of the Lord as to His vineyard () ends; and the prophet confirms the sentiment in the song,
under the same image of a *vine* (compare [Psalms 92:13-15](../../../kjv/psalms/92/13-15);
[Hosea 14:5](../../../kjv/hosea/14/5); [Hosea 14:6](../../../kjv/hosea/14/6)).
**Israel . . . fill . . .
world**— ([Romans 11:12](../../../kjv/romans/11/12)).

**7. him . . . those**—Israel—Israel's
enemies. Has God punished His people as severely as He has those
enemies whom He employed to chastise Israel? No! Far from it. Israel,
after trials, He will restore; Israel's enemies He will utterly
destroy at last.
**the slaughter of them that
are slain by him**—rather, "Is *Israel* slain according
to the slaughter of *the enemy slain?*" the slaughter
wherewith the enemy is slain [MAURER].

**8. In measure**—not beyond
measure; in moderation ([Job 23:6](../../../kjv/job/23/6);
[Psalms 6:1](../../../kjv/psalms/6/1); [Jeremiah 10:24](../../../kjv/jeremiah/10/24);
[Jeremiah 30:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/30/11); [Jeremiah 46:28](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/28)).
**when it shooteth**—image
from the vine; rather, passing from the image to the thing itself,
"*when sending her away* (namely, Israel to exile; [Jeremiah 46:28](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/28), God only *putting* the adulteress *away* when He
might justly have put her to death), Thou didst *punish* her"
[GESENIUS].
**stayeth**—rather, as
*Margin,* "*when He removeth it by* His rough wind in
the day," c.
**east wind**—especially
violent in the East ([Job 27:21](../../../kjv/job/27/21)
[Jeremiah 18:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/17)).

**9. By this**—exile of Israel
(the "sending away," ).
**purged**—expiated
[HORSLEY].
**all the fruit**—This is
the whole *benefit* designed to be brought about by the
chastisement; namely, the removal of his (Israel's) sin (namely,
object of idolatry; [Deuteronomy 9:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/9/21);
[Hosea 10:8](../../../kjv/hosea/10/8)).
**when he**—Jehovah; at the
destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, His instrument. The Jews
ever since have abhorred idolatry (compare [Hosea 10:8](../../../kjv/hosea/10/8)).
**not stand up**—shall rise
no more [HORSLEY].

**10. city**—Jerusalem; the
beating asunder of whose altars and images was mentioned in (compare ).
**calf feed**— (); it shall be a vast wild pasture.
**branches**—resuming the
image of the vine ([Isaiah 27:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/27/2);
[Isaiah 27:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/27/6)).

**11. boughs . . . broken off**—so
the Jews are called ([Romans 11:17](../../../kjv/romans/11/17);
[Romans 11:19](../../../kjv/romans/11/19); [Romans 11:20](../../../kjv/romans/11/20)).
**set . . . on fire**—burn
them as fuel; "women" are specified, as probably it was
their office to collect fuel and kindle the fire for cooking.
**no understanding**—as to
the ways of God ([Deuteronomy 32:28](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/28);
[Deuteronomy 32:29](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/29); [Jeremiah 5:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/21);
[Hosea 4:6](../../../kjv/hosea/4/6)).

**12.** Restoration of the Jews from
their dispersion, described under the image of fruits shaken from
trees and collected.
**beat off**—as fruit
beaten off a tree with a stick (), and then gathered.
**river**—Euphrates.
**stream of Egypt**—on the
confines of Palestine and Egypt ([Numbers 34:5](../../../kjv/numbers/34/5);
[Joshua 15:4](../../../kjv/joshua/15/4); [Joshua 15:47](../../../kjv/joshua/15/47)),
now *Wady-el-Arish,* Jehovah's vineyard, Israel, extended
according to His purpose from the Nile to the Euphrates ([1 Kings 4:21](../../../kjv/1-kings/4/21);
[1 Kings 4:24](../../../kjv/1-kings/4/24); [Psalms 72:8](../../../kjv/psalms/72/8)).
**one by one**—gathered
most carefully, not merely as a nation, but as *individuals.*

**13. great trumpet**—image from
the trumpets blown on the first day of the seventh month to summon
the people to a holy convocation (). Antitypically, the gospel trumpet ([Revelation 11:15](../../../kjv/revelation/11/15);
[Revelation 14:6](../../../kjv/revelation/14/6)) which the Jews shall
hearken to in the last days ([Zechariah 12:10](../../../kjv/zechariah/12/10);
[Zechariah 13:1](../../../kjv/zechariah/13/1)). As the passover in the
first month answers to Christ's crucifixion, so the day of atonement
and the idea of "salvation" connected with the feast of
tabernacles in the same seventh month, answer to the *crowning*
of "redemption" at His second coming; therefore *redemption*
is put last in [1 Corinthians 1:30](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/1/30).
**Assyria**—whither the ten
tribes had been carried; Babylonia is mainly meant, to which Assyria
at that time belonged; the two tribes were restored, and *some*
of the ten accompanied them. However, "Assyria" is
designedly used to point *ultimately* to the future restoration
of the ten *fully,* never yet accomplished ([1 Corinthians 1:30](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/1/30)).
**Egypt**—whither many had
fled at the Babylonish captivity ([Jeremiah 41:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/41/17);
[Jeremiah 41:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/41/18)). Compare as to the
future restoration, [Isaiah 11:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/11);
[Isaiah 11:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/12); [Isaiah 11:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/16);
[Isaiah 51:9-16](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/9-16) ("Rahab"
being Egypt).

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