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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Isaiah 27
27
1In that day the Lord will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan,#27:1 The identification of Leviathan is disputed, ranging from an earthly creature to a mythical sea monster in ancient literature. the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
2“In that day,
sing about the fruitful vineyard.
3I, the Lord, will watch over it,
watering it carefully.
Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
4My anger will be gone.
If I find briers and thorns growing,
I will attack them;
I will burn them up—
5unless they turn to me for help.
Let them make peace with me;
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root.
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole earth with fruit!
7Has the Lord struck Israel
as he struck her enemies?
Has he punished her
as he punished them?
8No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
She was exiled from her land
as though blown away in a storm from the east.
9The Lord did this to purge Israel’s#27:9 Hebrew Jacob’s. See note on 14:1. wickedness,
to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.
10The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
chewing on twigs and branches.
11The people are like the dead branches of a tree,
broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots.
Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
for its people have turned away from God.
Therefore, the one who made them
will show them no pity or mercy.
12Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River#27:12 Hebrew the river. in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west. 13In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the Lord on his holy mountain.
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