Isaiah 27
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1At that time the Lord will take his sharp, large, and strong sword, and punish Leviathan, the slithering serpent, and Leviathan, the coiled serpent, and he will kill the sea dragon.#27:1. Leviathan and the sea dragon come from pagan mythology, and are personifications of evil.
2At that time, sing about a beautiful vineyard. 3I, the Lord, take care of it, watering it often. I guard it night and day so that nobody can damage it. 4I'm not angry anymore.#27:4. “Not angry anymore”: unlike the Lord's anger with his vineyard recorded in chapter 5. If there are thorns and brambles I would go and fight them, burning them all up, 5Otherwise they should come to me for protection. They should make their peace with me, yes, make their peace with me.
6In the future the descendants of Jacob will be like a tree taking root. Israel will flower and send out shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit! 7Has the Lord hit Israel as he hit those that attacked them? Were they killed like their killers were killed?#27:7. The implied answer is “No.” 8You dealt with them by sending them into exile, by banishing them. He drove them away with his powerful force, like when the east wind blows. 9Through this experience Jacob's guilt will be forgiven. The removal of their sins will come to fruition when they take all the pagan altar stones and crush them to pieces like chalk—no Asherah poles or altars of incense will be left standing.
10The fortified city will be abandoned, its houses as empty and lonely as a desert. Cattle will graze and rest there, stripping bare the branches of its trees. 11Their dry branches are broken off and used by women to make fires. This is a people that doesn't have any sense, so their Maker won't feel sorry for them, and their Creator won't help them.
12At that time the Lord will thresh the grain harvested from the Euphrates River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered up one by one. 13At that time a loud trumpet will sound, and those who were dying in Assyria will return along with those exiled in Egypt. They will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 27
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God’s Blessings for Israel
1On that day the Lord will punish #27:1 Or sea monsterLeviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even #27:1 Or sea monsterLeviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
2¶On that day,
“A #27:2 Some mss a vineyard of winevineyard of beauty, sing of it!
3“I, the Lord, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will #27:3 Lit punishdamage it,
I guard it night and day.
4“I have no wrath.
Should #27:4 Lit whosomeone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, I would burn them #27:4 Lit altogethercompletely.
5“Or let him #27:5 Lit take hold ofrely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him make peace with Me.”
6 # 27:6 Lit Those coming In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the #27:6 Lit face of the worldwhole world with fruit.
7¶Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, #27:7 Lit he was slainhave they been slain?
8You contended with them #27:8 Some ancient versions by exact measureby banishing them, by driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.
9Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be forgiven;
And this will be #27:9 Lit all the fruitthe full price of the #27:9 Lit removingpardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When #27:9 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10For the fortified city is isolated,
A #27:10 Lit pasturehomestead deserted and abandoned like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and #27:10 Lit consumefeed on its branches.
11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12On that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel. 13It will come about also on that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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