Isaiah 27:10

Isaiah 27:10 says, Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. Isaiah said that the defended city would be desolate, with the cattle feeding in it.  This was all going to occur because of the idolatry of the people of Judah.  Whatever we hold to be more important than God will one day be done away with.  Even as followers of Christ, if we build up things in our life that are outside of God’s will, they will one day be nothing but desolation. 

Verse eleven adds, When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.  Isaiah said that when the boughs of the trees were withered, or dying, that the women would burn them for fuel.  They would no longer serve as a source of food for the people.  Isaiah said God pronounced them to be people of no understanding, no matter how smart they might have been.  God made them, but He was now going to have no mercy on them because they refused to turn away from their idols.  We cannot afford to allow anything to become more important to us than God is.  

Verse twelve continues, And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.  Isaiah said that there was a promise of God that this punishment would not last forever.  He would once again gather those of His people who remained true to Him and restore them as a nation.  We have the promise of God that no matter how bad things may get in life that one day He is going to gather all His children, those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, to Him. 

Verse thirteen concludes, And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.  Isaiah said when that day came, that a trumpet would sound and the people would be returned to Jerusalem from wherever they were.  This was a temporary restoration, because nowhere on this earth will be our everlasting home.  One day, that final trumpet will sound and we will be called home to our everlasting home with Jesus Christ.