8 By warfare[1] and exile you contend with her- with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

Other Translations of Isaiah 27:8

King James Version

8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

English Standard Version

8 Measure by measure,Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breathOr wind in the day of the east wind.

The Message

8 He was hard on them all right. The exile was a harsh sentence. He blew them away on a fierce blast of wind.

New King James Version

8 In measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind.

New Living Translation

8 No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account. She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 27:8

Commentary on Isaiah 27:6-13

(Read Isaiah 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 souls be continually watered and kept, that we may abound in the fruits of the Spirit, in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. The Jews yet are kept a separate and a numerous people; they have not been rooted out as those who slew them. The condition of that nation, through so many ages, forms a certain proof of the Divine origin of the Scriptures; and the Jews live amongst us, a continued warning against sin. But though winds are ever so rough, ever so high, God can say to them, Peace, be still. And though God will afflict his people, yet he will make their afflictions to work for the good of their souls. According to this promise, since the captivity in Babylon, no people have shown such hatred to idols and idolatry as the Jews. And to all God's people, the design of affliction is to part between them and sin. The affliction has done us good, when we keep at a distance from the occasions of sin, and use care that we may not be tempted to it. Jerusalem had been defended by grace and the Divine protection; but when God withdrew, she was left like a wilderness. This has awfully come to pass. And this is a figure of the deplorable state of the vineyard, the church, when it brought forth wild grapes. Sinners flatter themselves they shall not be dealt with severely, because God is merciful, and is their Maker. We see how weak those pleas will be. Verses 12,13, seem to predict the restoration of the Jews after the Babylonish captivity, and their recovery from their present dispersion. This is further applicable to the preaching of the gospel, by which sinners are gathered into the grace of God; the gospel proclaims the acceptable year of the Lord. Those gathered by the sounding of the gospel trumpet, are brought in to worship God, and added to the church; and the last trumpet will gather the saints together.