Isaiah 27
27
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
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Job 41.1; Ps 74.14; 104.26. On that day, Leviathan,#27.1 Leviathan: God's victory over this monster sometimes stands for God's power over all creation and sometimes for his defeat of his enemies, especially Egypt.
the sea monster,
will squirm and try to escape,
but the Lord will kill him
with a cruel, sharp sword.
Protection and Forgiveness
The Lord said:
2At that time you must sing
about a fruitful#27.2 fruitful: Some Hebrew manuscripts have “lovely.” vineyard.
3I, the Lord, will protect it
and always keep it watered.
I will guard it day and night
to keep it from harm.
4I am no longer angry.
But if it produces thorns,
I will go to war against it
and burn it to the ground.
5Yet if the vineyard depends
on me for protection,
it will become my friend
and be at peace with me.
6Someday Israel will take root
like a vine.
It will blossom and bear fruit
that covers the earth.
7I, the Lord, didn't punish and kill
the people of Israel
as fiercely as I punished
and killed their enemies.
8I carefully measured out
Israel's punishment#27.8 I … punishment: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
and sent the scorching heat
to chase them far away.
9There's only one way
that Israel's sin and guilt
can be completely forgiven:
They must crush the stones
of every pagan altar
and place of worship.
The Lord Will Bring His People Together
10Fortress cities are left
like a desert
where no one lives.
Cattle walk through the ruins,
stripping the trees bare.
11When broken branches
fall to the ground,
women pick them up
to feed the fire.
But these people are so stupid
that the God who created them
will show them no mercy.
12The time is coming when the Lord will shake the land between the Euphrates River and the border of Egypt, and one by one he will bring all of his people together. 13A loud trumpet will be heard. Then the people of Israel who were dragged away to Assyria and Egypt will return to worship the Lord on his holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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