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Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Isaiah delivers this oracle concerning a future day when the Lord will act to restore His people after a prior recovery from Assyria and Egypt. The message addresses Judah and Israel, contrasting their future unity with their present division.
The words — The text highlights נֵס (nes), meaning a standard or banner, and נִדְחֵי (nidchei), referring to the banished ones. These terms frame the divine action of signaling the nations and collecting the displaced.
The thread — This gathering motif appears in Isaiah 43:6, where God directs the north and south to release His people, and in Isaiah 56:8, which names the Lord as the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel. Psalms 147:2 similarly records the Lord building Jerusalem and collecting the exiles of Israel.
Why it lands — The text states that God will raise a banner and collect the scattered from all directions before noting that tribal hostility will end. A reader must recognize that restoration precedes reconciliation and that divine initiative, not human effort, drives the gathering.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 43:6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
- Isaiah 56:8 Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
- Psalms 147:2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.
- Zephaniah 3:10 From beyond the rivers of Cush My worshipers, My scattered people, will bring Me an offering.
- Isaiah 11:10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
- Zechariah 10:6 I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them. For I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
- Psalms 68:22 The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
- Isaiah 27:13 And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 49:11 I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.
- Deuteronomy 32:26 I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,