Isaiah 27
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Israel’s Redemption
1In that day, the Lord Yahweh
will mercilessly wield his massive, mighty sword
and punish Leviathan, the swift, slithering serpent.
He will slay the dragon of the sea # 27:1 See Job 41:1–10; Ps. 74:13–14; Isa. 51:9; Ezek. 29:3. —
Leviathan, the twisting serpent. # 27:1 Or “the crooked serpent” or “the serpent of confusion.” Satan always attempts to twist and distort the words of God to deceive humanity (see 2 Cor. 11:3). The sword of the Lord is merciless to the enemies of Christ (see Rev. 19:15). The massive, mighty sword of the Lord is the message of the cross (see 1 Cor. 1:18–25). It is mighty to save and will thwart every principality and power (see Col. 2:14–15; Heb. 2:14–15). Leviathan means “coiled” or “contorted.”
2In that day, they will sing the song “The Vineyard of Delight.”
3“I, the Lord, watch over my vineyard of delight.
Moment by moment, I water it in love
and protect it day and night.
4There is no anger in me,
for if I found briars and thorns
I would burn them up and march to battle against them.
5So let the branches cling to my protection # 27:5 See John 15:5.
when they make true peace with me.
Yes, let them make me their friend.” # 27:5 Or “make true peace with me.”
Cleansing, Not Destruction
6The coming ones # 27:6 Although most translations read “In days to come,” the literal Hebrew is “Those to come.” of Jacob’s tribes will take root.
Israel’s branches will bud and blossom,
and her beautiful fruit will cover the face of the earth.
7Has Yahweh struck Israel
as other nations have struck her? # 27:7 Commentators and linguists agree that this is one of the more difficult verses to translate in Isaiah (as is the section to follow). A literal rendering is “Like the striking down of the one striking him down, does he strike him down?” A possible meaning of this verse could be “Israel has not been punished by the Lord as he has punished Israel’s enemies.”
Has Israel been killed like her enemies have been killed?
8No, but with measured justice
he exiled them and contended with them. # 27:8 The meaning of this line is uncertain.
He removed them from the land with his severe blast
on the day his searing east wind blew.
9By the mercy of Yahweh the guilt of Jacob will be forgiven. # 27:9 Or “atoned for.”
Yet the full proof of their forgiveness will be
when they crush all the altars to false gods
and make them into chalkstones, crushed to pieces,
with neither cultic poles nor incense altars still standing.
10The fortified city lies in ruins,
forsaken and deserted like a wilderness.
Cattle graze there and lie down,
chewing on twigs and branches.
11The trees are withered and stripped bare,
and their women gather dead branches for firewood,
because they are a people of no understanding.
That is why their Maker will show them no compassion,
and he who formed them will show them no favor.
12In that day, from the Egyptian border to the Euphrates, the Lord Yahweh will gather one by one the people of Israel, as one sifts wheat from the chaff. 13When that day comes, a great trumpet will sound, and those lost in the land of Assyria and Egypt—all the exiles—will come and bow down before the Lord Yahweh in Jerusalem and worship him on the holy mountain!
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Job 41.1; Ps 74.14; 104.26 On that day the LORD will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster#27.1 Leviathan… monster: Legendary monsters which were symbols of the nations oppressing Israel. that lives in the sea.
2On that day the LORD will say of his pleasant vineyard, 3“I watch over it and water it continually. I guard it night and day so that no one will harm it. 4I am no longer angry with the vineyard. If only there were thorns and briars to fight against, then I would burn them up completely. 5But if the enemies of my people want my protection, let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me.”
6In days to come the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, will take root like a tree, and they will blossom and bud. The earth will be covered with the fruit they produce.
7Israel has not been punished by the LORD as severely as its enemies, nor lost as many people. 8The LORD punished his people by sending them into exile. He took them away with a cruel wind from the east.#27.8 Verse 8 in Hebrew is unclear. 9But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.
10The fortified city lies in ruins. It is deserted like an empty wilderness. It has become a pasture for cattle, where they can rest and graze. 11The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.
12On that day, from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border, the LORD will gather his people one by one, like someone separating the wheat from the chaff.
13When that day comes, a trumpet will be blown to call back from Assyria and Egypt all the Israelites who are in exile there. They will come and worship the LORD in Jerusalem, on his sacred hill.#27.13 sacred hill: See 2.3.
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