Jesaja 11:12

Schlachter Bibel

Und er wird den Nationen ein Panier aufstecken und die Verjagten Israels sammeln und die Zerstreuten Judas von den vier Enden der Erde zusammenbringen.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
und wird ein Panier unter die Heiden aufwerfen und zusammenbringen die Verjagten Israels und die Zerstreuten aus Juda zuhauf führen von den vier Enden des Erdreichs;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

set up: Isaiah 11:10, Isaiah 18:3, Isaiah 59:19, Isaiah 62:10, Revelation 5:9

shall assemble: Isaiah 27:13, Isaiah 43:6, Isaiah 49:11, Isaiah 49:12, Isaiah 56:8, Deuteronomy 32:26, Psalms 68:22, Psalms 147:2, Zephaniah 3:10, John 7:35, James 1:1

corners: Heb. wings

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:10 - the gathering Nehemiah 1:9 - yet will I Job 37:3 - ends Psalms 44:11 - scattered Psalms 60:4 - a banner Isaiah 5:26 - he will Isaiah 13:2 - Lift ye up Isaiah 24:15 - isles Isaiah 43:5 - I will Jeremiah 3:14 - one of a city Jeremiah 30:17 - they Jeremiah 31:1 - of Jeremiah 33:7 - will cause Jeremiah 49:36 - the outcasts Jeremiah 50:4 - the children of Israel Ezekiel 28:25 - When Ezekiel 37:22 - I will make Hosea 1:11 - the children of Judah Joel 3:7 - I will Zephaniah 3:20 - even Zechariah 9:7 - he that Zechariah 10:8 - hiss Matthew 24:31 - gather

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations,.... For the gathering of them, for the calling of the Gentiles, that is, the Lord would do it; he who before is said to set his hand a second time to recover his people, whether among Jews or Gentiles; this he has done in the ministration of the Gospel, in which Christ is lifted up and held forth as the only Saviour of lost sinners, the sole author and glorious Captain of salvation, for them to flee to, and lay hold on; and this he still does, and will continue to do, until all his people are gathered in from the several parts of the world:

and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel; so those of his people among the ten tribes, that were scattered about in various countries, when the Gospel was preached throughout the world by the apostles, were called by it, and gathered into Gospel churches among the Gentiles, of whom the first churches of Christ consisted; and so it will be in the latter day, when all Israel shall be saved:

and gather together the dispersed of Judah; the Jews, scattered about like lost sheep, among each of the nations of the world; some of which were looked up, and found out, and brought into the sheepfold, in the first times of Christianity; and others will be in the latter day:

even from the four corners of the earth: which shows that this cannot intend the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, which was only from one corner of the earth; The Targum is,

"from the four winds of the earth;''

a phrase the same with that in Revelation 7:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall set up an ensign - See Isaiah 11:10. The Messiah shall stand in view of the nations, as a standard is erected by a military leader. An ensign or standard was usually lifted up on the mountains or on some elevated place (compare Isaiah 18:3); and the meaning here is, that the Messiah would be the conspicuous object around which the nations would rally.

And shall assemble - This word, אסף 'âsaph, properly means, to gather, collect, to assemble together, as fruits are collected for preservation Exodus 23:10; to collect a people together Numbers 21:16; to gather or collect gold; 2 Kings 22:4. It may also mean to gather or collect anything for destruction Jeremiah 8:13; and hence, to take out of the way, to kill, destroy; 1 Samuel 15:6. Here, it is evidently synonymous with the word ‘recover’ in Isaiah 11:11. It cannot be proved that it means that God will “literally” re-assemble all the scattered Jews, for the “collecting them,” or regathering them to himself “as his people,” though they may be still scattered among the nations, is all that the words necessarily imply. Thus when the word is used, as it is repeatedly, to denote the death of the patriarchs, where it is said they were ‘gathered to their fathers,’ it does not mean that they were buried in the same grave, or the same vicinity, but that they were united to them in death; they partook of the same lot; they all alike went down to the dead; Genesis 25:8; Genesis 35:29; Genesis 49:29; Numbers 20:24; Deuteronomy 32:50.

The outcasts of Israel - The name ‘Israel,’ applied at first to all the descendants of Jacob, came at length to denote the ‘kingdom of Israel,’ or of the ‘ten tribes,’ or of ‘Ephraim,’ as the tribes which revolted under Jeroboam were called. In this sense it is used in the Scriptures after the time of Jeroboam, and thus it acquired a technical signification, distinguishing it from Judah.

The dispersed of Judah - ‘Judah,’ also, though often used in a general sense to denote the Jews as such, without reference to the distinction in tribes, is also used technically to denote the kingdom of Judah, as distinguished from the kingdom of Israel. The tribe of Judah was much larger than Benjamin, and the name of the latter was lost in the former. A considerable part of the ten tribes returned again to their own land, with those of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin; a portion remained still in the countries of the East, and were intermingled with the other Jews who remained there. All distinctions of the tribes were gradually abolished, and there is no reason to think that the ‘ten tribes,’ here referred to by the name ‘Israel,’ have now anywhere a distinct and separate existence; see this point fully proved in a review of Dr. Grant’s work on ‘” The Nestorians, or, the Lost Ten tribes,”’ in the “Bib. Rep.” for October 1841, and January 1842, by Prof. Robinson. The literal meaning here then would be, that he would gather the remains of those scattered people, whether pertaining to ‘Israel’ or ‘Judah,’ from the regions where they were dispersed.

It does not necessarily mean that they would be regathered in their distinctive capacity as ‘Israel’ and ‘Judah,’ or that the distinction would be still preserved, but that the people of God would be gathered together, and that all sources of alienation and discord would cease. The meaning, probably, is, that under the Messiah all the remains of that scattered people, in all parts of the earth, whether originally pertaining to ‘Israel’ or ‘Judah,’ should be collected into one spiritual kingdom, constituting one happy and harmonious people. To the fulfillment of this, it is not necessary to be supposed that they would be literally gathered into one place, or that they would be restored to their own land, or that they would be preserved as a distinct and separate community. The leading idea is, that the Messiah would set up a glorious kingdom in which all causes of alienation and discord would cease.

From the four corners of the earth - Chaldee, ‘From the four winds of the earth.’ The Septuagint renders it, ‘From the four wings (πτερύγων pterugōn) of the earth.’ It means, that they should be collected to God from each of the four parts of the earth - the east, the west, the north, and the south. The Hebrew word rendered here ‘corners,’ means properly “wings.” It is applied, however, to the corner, or border of a thing, as a skirt, or mantle 1 Samuel 24:5, 1 Samuel 24:11; Deuteronomy 23:1; and hence, to the boundaries, or corners of the earth, because the earth seems to have been represented as a quadrangular plain; Ezekiel 7:2.