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.
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 (from the extremities of the four quarters) of the earth - literally, wings of the earth, (Job 37:3, margin.) In the first restoration Judah alone was restored, with perhaps some few of Israel (the Ten tribes): in the future restoration both are expressly specified (Ezekiel 37:16-19; Jeremiah 3:18). To Israel are ascribed the "outcasts" (masculine, nidcheey (H1760)); to Judah the "dispersed" (feminine, nªputsowt (H5310)), as the former have been longer and more utterly cast-aways (though not finally) than the latter (John 7:35, "the dispersed х teen (G3588) diasporan (G1290)] among the Gentiles"). The masculine and feminine conjoined express the universality of the restoration.