Deliverance of Israel
27 In that day,(A)
the Lord will punish with his sword(B)—
his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan(C) the gliding serpent,(D)
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster(E) of the sea.
2 In that day(F)—
“Sing(G) about a fruitful vineyard:(H)
3 I, the Lord, watch over it;
I water(I) it continually.
I guard(J) it day and night
so that no one may harm(K) it.
4 I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
I would march against them in battle;
I would set them all on fire.(L)
5 Or else let them come to me for refuge;(M)
let them make peace(N) with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6 In days to come Jacob will take root,(O)
Israel will bud and blossom(P)
and fill all the world with fruit.(Q)
7 Has the Lord struck her
as he struck(R) down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8 By warfare[a] and exile(S) you contend with her—
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind(T) blows.
9 By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned(U) for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:(V)
When he makes all the altar stones(W)
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles[b](X) or incense altars(Y)
will be left standing.
10 The fortified city stands desolate,(Z)
an abandoned settlement, forsaken(AA) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,(AB)
there they lie down;(AC)
they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(AD)
and women come and make fires(AE) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(AF)
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator(AG) shows them no favor.(AH)
12 In that day the Lord will thresh(AI) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(AJ) and you, Israel, will be gathered(AK) up one by one. 13 And in that day(AL) a great trumpet(AM) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled(AN) in Egypt(AO) will come and worship(AP) the Lord on the holy mountain(AQ) in Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
Cross references
- Isaiah 27:1 : ver 13; S Isa 2:11; 28:5
- Isaiah 27:1 : S Ge 3:24; S Dt 32:41; Isa 31:8; 34:6; 65:12; 66:16; Eze 21:3; Na 3:15
- Isaiah 27:1 : S Job 3:8
- Isaiah 27:1 : Job 26:13
- Isaiah 27:1 : S Ps 68:30; S 74:13; Rev 12:9
- Isaiah 27:2 : Isa 24:21
- Isaiah 27:2 : S Isa 5:1
- Isaiah 27:2 : Jer 2:21
- Isaiah 27:3 : Isa 58:11
- Isaiah 27:3 : S Ps 91:4; S Isa 5:2
- Isaiah 27:3 : S Jn 6:39
- Isaiah 27:4 : S ver 11; S Isa 10:17; Mt 3:12; Heb 6:8
- Isaiah 27:5 : S Isa 25:4
- Isaiah 27:5 : S Job 22:21; S Ps 119:165; Ro 5:1; 2Co 5:20
- Isaiah 27:6 : S 2Ki 19:30; Isa 11:10
- Isaiah 27:6 : S Ge 40:10
- Isaiah 27:6 : S Ps 72:16; Isa 11:1; 37:31; Eze 17:23; 36:8; Hos 14:8
- Isaiah 27:7 : Isa 10:26; S 11:4; 37:36-38
- Isaiah 27:8 : Isa 49:14; 50:1; 54:7
- Isaiah 27:8 : S Ge 41:6
- Isaiah 27:9 : S Ps 78:38
- Isaiah 27:9 : Ro 11:27*
- Isaiah 27:9 : S Ex 23:24
- Isaiah 27:9 : S Ex 34:13
- Isaiah 27:9 : S Lev 26:30; S 2Ch 14:5
- Isaiah 27:10 : S Ge 1:2; S Dt 13:16; Isa 5:6; 32:14; Jer 10:22; 26:6; La 1:4; 5:18
- Isaiah 27:10 : S Isa 5:5
- Isaiah 27:10 : S Isa 5:17
- Isaiah 27:10 : Isa 17:2
- Isaiah 27:11 : S Isa 10:33
- Isaiah 27:11 : S ver 4; Isa 33:12
- Isaiah 27:11 : S Dt 32:28; S Isa 1:3
- Isaiah 27:11 : Dt 32:18; Isa 41:8; 43:1, 7, 15; 44:1-2, 21, 24
- Isaiah 27:11 : S Isa 9:17; Jer 11:16
- Isaiah 27:12 : S Isa 21:10; Mt 3:12
- Isaiah 27:12 : S Ge 15:18
- Isaiah 27:12 : S Dt 30:4; S Isa 1:9; S 11:12; S 17:6
- Isaiah 27:13 : S ver 1
- Isaiah 27:13 : S Lev 25:9; S Jdg 3:27; S Mt 24:31
- Isaiah 27:13 : S Ps 106:47
- Isaiah 27:13 : S Isa 10:19; 19:21, 25
- Isaiah 27:13 : S Ge 27:29; S Ps 22:29; S 86:9
- Isaiah 27:13 : S Isa 2:2