
Text -- Isaiah 27:6 (NET)




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To be firmly settled in their possessions.

Wesley: Isa 27:6 - -- Their posterity shall seek habitations in other countries, and replenish them with people. But this seems to be understood of the spiritual seed of Ja...
Their posterity shall seek habitations in other countries, and replenish them with people. But this seems to be understood of the spiritual seed of Jacob.
JFB: Isa 27:6 - -- Jehovah. Here the song of the Lord as to His vineyard (Isa 27:2-5) ends; and the prophet confirms the sentiment in the song, under the same image of a...
Jehovah. Here the song of the Lord as to His vineyard (Isa 27:2-5) ends; and the prophet confirms the sentiment in the song, under the same image of a vine (compare Psa 92:13-15; Hos 14:5-6).
Clarke -> Isa 27:6
Clarke: Isa 27:6 - -- To take root "From the root"- For ישרש yashresh , I read, with the Syriac, משרש mishshoresh . And for יציץ ופרח yatsits uparach ...
To take root "From the root"- For
Calvin -> Isa 27:6
Calvin: Isa 27:6 - -- 6.Afterwards 201 shall Jacob put forth roots. He now gives actual proof of that love of which he formerly spoke. In order to understand it better, ...
6.Afterwards 201 shall Jacob put forth roots. He now gives actual proof of that love of which he formerly spoke. In order to understand it better, we must consider the condition of that ancient people; for it was the heritage of God, not through its own merits, but by the blessing of adoption. The Lord might justly have been offended at that nation to such an extent as to destroy it utterly, and blot out its name; but he refrained from exercising such severity, because he had to deal with his vineyard and heritage. He aimed at nothing more than that the people should acknowledge their guilt and return to his favor; and therefore he followed up the former statement with this promise, lest the people, struck with excessive terror at that power which exhibits the judgments of God and his chastisements and stripes, should grow disheartened; for the contemplation of the judgment of God might throw us into despair, if we did not entertain some hope of being restored. Accordingly, he says —
Jacob shall again put forth roots “Though I shall lessen my Church, and reduce it to a very small number, yet it shall be restored to its ancient and flourishing condition, so as to fill the whole world; for, after having once been reconciled, it will be more and more increased.” This metaphor borrowed from roots is highly elegant; for by the wrath of the Lord we are as it were cut off, so that we appear to be completely slain and dead; but to whatever extent the Lord afflicts his Church, he never allows the roots to die, but they are concealed for a time, and at length bring forth their fruit.
And the face of the world shall be filled with fruit What he now says, that “the world shall be filled with the fruit” of those roots, was accomplished at the coming of Christ, who collected and multiplied the people of God by the gospel; and Israel was united with the Gentiles in one body, so that the distinction which formerly existed between them was removed. (Eph 2:14.) Now, we know that the gospel, and all the fruit that sprung from it, proceeded from the Jews. (Isa 2:3; Joh 4:22.)
TSK -> Isa 27:6
TSK: Isa 27:6 - -- Isa 6:13, Isa 37:31, Isa 49:20-23, Isa 54:1-3, Isa 60:22; Psa 92:13-15; Jer 30:19; Hos 2:23, Hos 14:5, Hos 14:6; Zec 2:11, Zec 10:8, Zec 10:9; Rom 11:...

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Barnes -> Isa 27:6
Barnes: Isa 27:6 - -- He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root - This language is derived from the vine, as the shoots or cuttings of the vine take root a...
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root - This language is derived from the vine, as the shoots or cuttings of the vine take root and flourish. To take root, therefore, is an emblem denoting that the descendants of Jacob, or the people of God, would increase and prosper.
Shall blossom and bud - An image also taken from the vine, or from fruit trees in general, and meaning that they should greatly flourish in the time succeeding their return from the captivity.
And fill the face of the world with fruit - On the meaning of the word ‘ face,’ see the note at Isa 25:7. The sense is, that the people of God would so increase and flourish that the true religion would ultimately fill the entire world. The same idea of the universal prevalence of the true religion is often advanced by this prophet, and occurs in various parts of the hymns or songs which we are now considering (see Isa 25:6-8). The figure which is used here, drawn from the vine, denoting prosperity by its increase and its fruit, is beautifully employed in Psa 92:13-14 :
Those that be planted in the house of Yahweh,
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age;
They shall be rich and green.
Poole -> Isa 27:6
Poole: Isa 27:6 - -- To take root to be firmly settled in their possessions, and not tossed hither and thither, as they have been.
Fill the face of the world with fruit ...
To take root to be firmly settled in their possessions, and not tossed hither and thither, as they have been.
Fill the face of the world with fruit their posterity shall be so numerous, that their own land shall not be sufficient for them, but they shall be forced to seek habitations in other countries, and shall replenish them with people. But this seems to be understood of the spiritual seed of Jacob, or of believers, who are oft called God’ s Israel, as Rom 9:6 , and elsewhere.
Haydock -> Isa 27:6
Haydock: Isa 27:6 - -- Rush in. Some understand this of the enemies of the true Israel, that shall invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual invasion made by the apostle...
Rush in. Some understand this of the enemies of the true Israel, that shall invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual invasion made by the apostles of Christ. (Challoner) ---
Protestants, "He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root." Septuagint, "those who come are children of Jacob." (Haydock)
Gill -> Isa 27:6
Gill: Isa 27:6 - -- He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root,.... That is, the posterity of Jacob, the seed of Israel, in a spiritual sense; such who are Israe...
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root,.... That is, the posterity of Jacob, the seed of Israel, in a spiritual sense; such who are Israelites indeed, in whom there is no guile; these shall be so far from being plucked up, or rooted out of the vineyard, the church, that they shall take deeper root, and their roots shall spread yet more and more; they shall be rooted and grounded in the love of God, and also in Christ, and be built up in him, as well as firmly settled and established in the church, Eph 3:17 or, "them that come to Jacob u"; proselytes unto him, converted Gentiles, that come to the church of Christ, signified by "Jacob", and give up themselves unto it, and are added to it, these shall take root. The words may be rendered, in days "to come, he shall cause Jacob to take root": or, he "shall take root", as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Ben Melech supply the words; and so they are a prophecy of the stability and prosperous estate of the church in the latter day:
Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit; which may be understood of the fruits of grace and righteousness, which shall appear upon the people of God, in all parts of the world; or of the great number of converts everywhere; so the Targum, by "fruit", understands children's children; the sense is, that when the church of God, in the latter day, is settled and established, grounded in Christ, and in the doctrines of grace, it shall be in very flourishing and fruitful circumstances, abounding in grace and good works, and with numbers of converts; it shall be like the mustard tree, when it becomes so great a tree as that the birds of the air make their nests in it; and as the stone cut out of the mountain without hands, when it becomes a great mountain, and fills the whole earth, Mat 13:31 compare with this Isa 37:31.

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MHCC -> Isa 27:6-13
MHCC: Isa 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 sou...
Matthew Henry -> Isa 27:1-6
Matthew Henry: Isa 27:1-6 - -- The prophet is here singing of judgment and mercy, I. Of judgment upon the enemies of God's church (Isa 27:1), tribulation to those that trouble it...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Isa 27:6
Keil-Delitzsch: Isa 27:6 - --
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This long section of the book deals with Israel's major decision in Isa...

Constable: Isa 13:1--35:10 - --B. God's sovereignty over the nations chs. 13-35
This major section of the book emphasizes the folly of ...

Constable: Isa 24:1--27:13 - --2. Divine victory over the nations chs. 24-27
This section of the text has similarities to the p...

Constable: Isa 27:1-13 - --The future regathering of God's people ch. 27
The recurrence of the phrase "in that day"...
