“afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king;...” (Ibid. 5.)
This prophecy, being given to the Kingdom of Israel in particular, cannot be applied to the return of Judah from Babylon.
Isaiah the son of Amoz (The First Isaiah) was the foremost of the four who are called the greater prophets. He lived in the time of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, Kings of Judah, and prophesied about seven hundred and sixty, to six hundred and ninety-eight years before the civil era:—
“And it shall come to pass in that day,
That the Lord will set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people,
That shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt,
And from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam,
And from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.” (Isaiah xi. 11.)
“And he will set up an ensign for the nations,