Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 (Deuteronomy 24:20), and then gathered.
river—Euphrates.
stream of Egypt—on the confines of Palestine and Egypt (Numbers 34:5; Joshua 15:4, Joshua 15:47), now Wady-el-Arish, Jehovah's vineyard, Israel, extended according to His purpose from the Nile to the Euphrates (I Kings 4:21, I Kings 4:24; Psalms 72:8).
one by one—gathered most carefully, not merely as a nation, but as individuals.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 27:12:
Isaiah 23:18
Isaiah 27:1
Isaiah 51:11
Zechariah 14:5
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