‏ Isaiah 27:12

12. 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 (De 24:20), and then gathered.

river--Euphrates.

stream of Egypt--on the confines of Palestine and Egypt (Nu 34:5; Jos 15:4, 47), now Wady-el-Arish, Jehovah's vineyard, Israel, extended according to His purpose from the Nile to the Euphrates (1Ki 4:21, 24; Psa 72:8).

one by one--gathered most carefully, not merely as a nation, but as individuals.

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