Isaiah 1:27,28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Zion shall be redeemed Shall be delivered from all their enemies and calamities; with judgment By the exercise of God's strict justice in destroying the obdurate; by purging out those wicked and incorrigible Jews, who, by their sins, hindered the deliverance of the people; and by punishing and destroying their unmerciful enemies who kept them in cruel bondage; and her converts Hebrew, ושׁביה, her returners, those of them who shall come out of captivity into their own land; with righteousness Or, by righteousness; either by God's faithfulness, in keeping his promise of delivering them after seventy years, or by his goodness; for both these qualities come under the name of righteousness in the Scriptures. And, or rather, but, the destruction of the transgressors, &c., shall be together Though I will deliver my people from the Babylonish captivity, yet those of them who shall still go on in their wickedness, shall not have the benefit of that mercy, but shall be reserved for a more dreadful and total destruction.