Isaiah 27
27
1In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it. 3I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together. 5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me. 6In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
7Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? 8In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. 10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
12And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 27
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Leviathan Slain
1On that day the Lord with his relentless, large, strong sword will bring judgment on Leviathan,#Jb 3:8; 41:1,34; Ps 74:14; 104:26 the fleeing serpent — Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster that is in the sea.#Is 51:9
The Lord’s Vineyard
2On that day
sing about a desirable vineyard:#Ps 80:8; Is 5:7; Jr 2:21
3I am the Lord, who watches over it
to water it regularly.
So that no one disturbs it,
I watch over it night and day.
4I am not angry.
If only there were thorns and briers#2Sm 23:6; Is 10:17 for me to battle,
I would trample them
and burn them to the ground.
5Or let it take hold of my strength;
let it make peace with me —
make peace with me.
6In days to come, Jacob will take root.#Is 37:31
Israel will blossom and bloom#Is 35:1–2; Hs 14:5–6
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7Did the Lord strike Israel
as he struck the one who struck Israel?#Is 10:12,17; 30:31–33; 31:8–9; 37:36–38
Was Israel killed like those killed by the Lord?
8You disputed with Israel
by banishing and driving her away.#27:8 Hb obscure
He removed her with his severe storm
on the day of the east wind.
9Therefore Jacob’s iniquity#Is 13:11 will be atoned for in this way,
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:#Rm 11:27
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
10For the fortified city will be desolate,
pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.
11When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.#Ps 32:9; 49:20; Jr 4:22
Therefore their Maker#Jb 4:17; Ps 95:6; Pr 14:31; Is 17:7; 29:16; 44:2; 45:9,11; 51:13; 54:5; Hs 8:14 will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12On that day#Is 3:18; 7:18,20; 11:11; 24:21; Zch 12:8
the Lord will thresh grain from the Euphrates River
as far as the Wadi of Egypt,#Gn 15:18
and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.
13On that day
a great ram’s horn#Lv 25:9; 1Ch 15:24; Mt 24:31; 1Th 4:16; Rv 11:15 will be blown,
and those lost in the land of Assyria will come,
as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt;
and they will worship the Lord
at Jerusalem on the holy mountain.
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