God’s Blessings for Israel
27 On that day (A)the Lord will punish [a](B)Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even [b]Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And (C)He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
2 On that day,
“A [c](D)vineyard of beauty, sing of it!
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
(E)I water it every moment.
So that no one will [d]damage it,
I (F)guard it night and day.
4 I have no wrath.
Should [e]someone give Me (G)briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, (H)I would burn them [f]completely.
5 Or let him [g](I)rely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him (J)make peace with Me.”
6 [h]In the days to come Jacob (K)will take root,
Israel will (L)blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the [i]whole world with (M)fruit.
7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has (N)He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, [j]have they been slain?
8 You contended with them [k]by banishing them, by (O)driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the (P)east wind.
9 Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be (Q)forgiven;
And this will be [l]the full price of the [m](R)pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the (S)altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When [n]Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is (T)isolated,
A [o]homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert;
(U)There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and [p]feed on its branches.
11 When its (V)limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of (W)discernment,
Therefore (X)their Maker (Y)will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12 On that day the Lord (Z)will thresh from the flowing stream of the (AA)Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be (AB)gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel. 13 It will come about also on that day that a great (AC)trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of (AD)Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and (AE)worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:1 Or sea monster
- Isaiah 27:1 Or sea monster
- Isaiah 27:2 Some mss a vineyard of wine
- Isaiah 27:3 Lit punish
- Isaiah 27:4 Lit who
- Isaiah 27:4 Lit altogether
- Isaiah 27:5 Lit take hold of
- Isaiah 27:6 Lit Those coming
- Isaiah 27:6 Lit face of the world
- Isaiah 27:7 Lit he was slain
- Isaiah 27:8 Some ancient versions by exact measure
- Isaiah 27:9 Lit all the fruit
- Isaiah 27:9 Lit removing
- Isaiah 27:9 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
- Isaiah 27:10 Lit pasture
- Isaiah 27:10 Lit consume
Cross references
- Isaiah 27:1 : Is 66:16
- Isaiah 27:1 : Job 3:8; 41:1; Ps 74:14; 104:26
- Isaiah 27:1 : Is 51:9
- Isaiah 27:2 : Ps 80:8; Is 5:7; Jer 2:21
- Isaiah 27:3 : Is 58:11
- Isaiah 27:3 : 1 Sam 2:9; Is 31:5; John 10:28
- Isaiah 27:4 : 2 Sam 23:6; Is 10:17
- Isaiah 27:4 : Is 33:12; Matt 3:12; Heb 6:8
- Isaiah 27:5 : Is 12:2; 25:4
- Isaiah 27:5 : Job 22:21; Is 26:3, 12; Rom 5:1; 2 Cor 5:20
- Isaiah 27:6 : Is 37:31
- Isaiah 27:6 : Is 35:1, 2; Hos 14:5, 6
- Isaiah 27:6 : Is 4:2
- Isaiah 27:7 : Is 10:12, 17; 30:31-33; 31:8, 9; 37:36-38
- Isaiah 27:8 : Is 50:1; 54:7
- Isaiah 27:8 : Jer 4:11; Ezek 19:12; Hos 13:15
- Isaiah 27:9 : Is 1:25; 48:10; Dan 11:35
- Isaiah 27:9 : Rom 11:27
- Isaiah 27:9 : Ex 34:13; Deut 12:3; 2 Kin 10:26; Is 17:8
- Isaiah 27:10 : Is 32:13, 14
- Isaiah 27:10 : Is 17:2
- Isaiah 27:11 : Is 18:5
- Isaiah 27:11 : Deut 32:28; Is 1:3; 5:13; Jer 8:7
- Isaiah 27:11 : Deut 32:18; Is 43:1, 7; 44:2, 21, 24
- Isaiah 27:11 : Is 9:17
- Isaiah 27:12 : Is 11:11; 17:6; 24:13; 56:8
- Isaiah 27:12 : Gen 15:18
- Isaiah 27:12 : Deut 30:3, 4; Neh 1:9
- Isaiah 27:13 : Lev 25:9; 1 Chr 15:24; Matt 24:31; Rev 11:15
- Isaiah 27:13 : Is 19:24, 25
- Isaiah 27:13 : Is 19:21, 23; 49:7; 66:23; Zech 14:16; Heb 12:22