Isaiah 27
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1On 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.#Job 41.1; Ps 74.14; 104.26.
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.
6Some day 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 River Euphrates and the border of Egypt, and one by one he will bring all 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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© British and Foreign Bible Society 2012
Isaiah 27
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1In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. 2In that day there shall be a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it: 3I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day. 4Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together. 5Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: yea, let him make peace with me. 6In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
7Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him? 8In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, — the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand. 10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs. 11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour. 12And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, ye children of Israel. 13And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.