For the nations; all nations, Jews and Gentiles, who shall then embrace the true faith and the Messiah, as was said, Isa_11:10.
The outcasts; that were driven and banished out of their own land into foreign parts, as the word implies.
Of Israel; strictly so called, or of the ten tribes, as is manifest, both from their opposition to Judah in this verse, and from the mention of Ephraim in the next verse.