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11 The vines will become dry, and the branches will break off. Women will use them for firewood.

The people refuse to understand. So God, their Maker, will not comfort them or be kind to them.

12 At that time the Lord will begin separating his people from others. He will begin at the Euphrates River and will gather his people from there[a] to the River of Egypt.[b]

You people of Israel will be gathered together one by one. 13 Many of my people are now lost in Assyria. Some of my people have run away to Egypt. But at that time a great trumpet will be blown, and all those people will come back to Jerusalem. They will bow down before the Lord on that holy mountain.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:12 He will begin … from there Literally, “He will begin threshing at the stream of the river.” This Hebrew word for stream is like the word meaning “head of grain.”
  2. Isaiah 27:12 Euphrates River … River of Egypt These are the borders of the land God promised to give Israel.

11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(A)
    and women come and make fires(B) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(C)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator(D) shows them no favor.(E)

12 In that day the Lord will thresh(F) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(G) and you, Israel, will be gathered(H) up one by one. 13 And in that day(I) a great trumpet(J) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled(K) in Egypt(L) will come and worship(M) the Lord on the holy mountain(N) in Jerusalem.

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