garments from Bozrah, Who has trodden the winepress and trampled the people

in fury, because said He:

`The day of vengeance is in Mine heart, and the year of My redeemed is

come' (Isa. 63:4).

So, in Isaiah 59, we read:

`Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save' (Isa.

`Therefore His arm brought salvation' (59:16).

These words are preparatory to the prophetic utterance of 59:20,

`And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from

transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord ... Arise, shine: for thy light

is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.  For, behold,

the darkness shall cover the earth ... the nation and kingdom that will

not serve thee shall perish ... thou shalt call thy walls Salvation ...

the days of thy mourning shall be ended' (Isa. 59:20; 60:1,2,12,18,20).

to Isaiah 45, we perceive that the salvation there spoken of

partakes of the

same character as it does in the passages just considered.

Those addressed

in verses 20 and 22 are `the escaped of the nations' and `all

the ends of the

The Remnant of the Nations.  `And this shall be the plague wherewith

the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem

... And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the

nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year

to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the feast of

tabernacles' (Zech. 14:12 -16).

So in Isaiah we read of the daughter of Zion being `left' as a cottage

in a vineyard (Isa. 1:8), and that if the Lord had not `left' a very small

remnant, Israel would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah (Isa. 1:9).  The

`escaped' of Israel are called they that are `left' in Zion, or who `remain'

in Jerusalem (Isa. 4:2,3).  The blessed restoration which is the central

theme of Isaiah stresses this feature.  In that day the Lord will set His

hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people `which shall be

left', from Assyria and from other places of their dispersion, and He shall

`assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah

from the four corners of the earth', and there is to be a highway for this

remnant from Assyria, like as it was to Israel, `in the day that he came up

out of the land of Egypt' (Isa. 11:10 -16).  Those ready to perish in the

land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt are to be restored and

worship the Lord in the holy mount (Isa. 27:13).  Assyria and Egypt, two

outstanding oppressors of Israel, are denounced by Isaiah, and he prophesies

dreadful judgments upon them in his prophecy (Isa. 30:31 -33; and Isa. 19:1 -

17), yet we read:

`In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria,

even a blessing in the midst of the land: whom the Lord of hosts shall

bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My

hands, and Israel Mine inheritance' (Isa. 19:24,25).