Isaiah 27
27
XXVII
1In that day,
Shall Jehovah with his keen and great and powerful sword
Punish Leviathan the agile serpent,
And Leviathan the winding serpent;
And shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2In that day,
Sing ye of her, the beloved vineyard:
3I Jehovah do guard her,
I will water her every moment:
Lest any should injure her,
I will guard her night and day.
4Anger is not in me:
Would that some one would give me the thorn and thistle in battle;
Then would I rush against them and burn them up together.
5But if any one will lay hold of my strength,
He shall make peace with me;
Peace with me shall he make.
6In time to come, Jacob shall take root;
Israel shall blossom and bud forth,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.
7Hath He smitten him, as he smote them that smote him?
Or is he slain as those are slain, whom he slew?
8With moderation did He punish her, by removing her far away;
When he swept her away by his violent storm, in the day of the east wind.
9By this therefore is the guilt of Jacob expiated,
And assuredly this is the fruit of the removal of his sin,
That when he shall cause all the stones of the altar
To be broken in sunder, like as limestones;
The images of Astarte and the statues of the sun shall no more stand up.
10For the fortified city shall be solitary,
An habitation forsaken, and deserted as a wilderness.
There shall the bullock feed, and there shall be lie down;
And consume the branches thereof.
11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off:
Women shall come, and set them on fire:
For it is a people void of understanding;
Wherefore he that made them will not have mercy on them,
And he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12And it shall come to pass in that day,
That Jehovah will gather his fruit,
From the channel of the river,
Unto the stream of Egypt;
And ye shall be gleaned up,
One by one, O ye sons of Israel.
13And it shall come to pass in that day;
That the great trumpet shall be sounded;
And they shall come, who were perishing in the land of Assyria,
And the outcasts in the land of Egypt;
And they shall worship Jehovah
In the holy mount at Jerusalem.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.
Isaiah 27
27
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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