New American Standard Bible 1995

Isaiah 27

The Deliverance of Israel

1In that day 1the Lord will punish 2 3Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even 4Leviathan the twisted serpent; And 5He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

2In that day, “A 6 7vineyard of wine, sing of it!3I, the Lord, am its keeper; 8I water it every moment. So that no one will 9damage it, I 10guard it night and day.4I have no wrath. Should 11someone give Me 12briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, 13I would burn them 14completely.5Or let him 15 16rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him 17make peace with Me.”6 18In the days to come Jacob 19will take root, Israel will 20blossom and sprout, And they will fill the 21whole world with 22fruit.

7Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has 23He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, 24have they been slain?8You contended with them 25by banishing them, by 26driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the 27east wind.9Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be 28forgiven; And this will be 29the full price of the 30 31pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the 32altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When 33Asherim and incense altars will not stand.10For the fortified city is 34isolated, A 35homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; 36There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and 37feed on its branches.11When its 38limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of 39discernment, Therefore 40their Maker 41will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

12In that day the Lord 42will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the 43Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be 44gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. 13It will come about also in that day that a great 45trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of 46Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and 47worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Notes

1. Isaiah 27:1 Is 66:16 ↩
2. Isaiah 27:1 Or sea monster ↩
3. Isaiah 27:1 Job 3:8; 41:1; Ps 74:14; 104:26 ↩
4. Isaiah 27:1 Or sea monster ↩
5. Isaiah 27:1 Is 51:9 ↩
6. Isaiah 27:2 Some mss read a vineyard of delight ↩
7. Isaiah 27:2 Ps 80:8; Is 5:7; Jer 2:21 ↩
8. Isaiah 27:3 Is 58:11 ↩
9. Isaiah 27:3 Lit punish ↩
10. Isaiah 27:3 1 Sam 2:9; Is 31:5; John 10:28 ↩
11. Isaiah 27:4 Lit who ↩
12. Isaiah 27:4 2 Sam 23:6; Is 10:17 ↩
13. Isaiah 27:4 Is 33:12; Matt 3:12; Heb 6:8 ↩
14. Isaiah 27:4 Lit altogether ↩
15. Isaiah 27:5 Lit take hold of ↩
16. Isaiah 27:5 Is 12:2; 25:4 ↩
17. Isaiah 27:5 Job 22:21; Is 26:3, 12; Rom 5:1; 2 Cor 5:20 ↩
18. Isaiah 27:6 Lit Those coming ↩
19. Isaiah 27:6 Is 37:31 ↩
20. Isaiah 27:6 Is 35:1, 2; Hos 14:5, 6 ↩
21. Isaiah 27:6 Lit face of ↩
22. Isaiah 27:6 Is 4:2 ↩
23. Isaiah 27:7 Is 10:12, 17; 30:31-33; 31:8, 9; 37:36-38 ↩
24. Isaiah 27:7 Lit he was slain ↩
25. Isaiah 27:8 Some ancient versions read by exact measure ↩
26. Isaiah 27:8 Is 50:1; 54:7 ↩
27. Isaiah 27:8 Jer 4:11; Ezek 19:12; Hos 13:15 ↩
28. Isaiah 27:9 Is 1:25; 48:10; Dan 11:35 ↩
29. Isaiah 27:9 Lit all the fruit ↩
30. Isaiah 27:9 Lit removing ↩
31. Isaiah 27:9 Rom 11:27 ↩
32. Isaiah 27:9 Ex 34:13; Deut 12:3; 2 Kin 10:26; Is 17:8 ↩
33. Isaiah 27:9 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity ↩
34. Isaiah 27:10 Is 32:13, 14 ↩
35. Isaiah 27:10 Lit pasture ↩
36. Isaiah 27:10 Is 17:2 ↩
37. Isaiah 27:10 Lit consume ↩
38. Isaiah 27:11 Is 18:5 ↩
39. Isaiah 27:11 Deut 32:28; Is 1:3; 5:13; Jer 8:7 ↩
40. Isaiah 27:11 Deut 32:18; Is 43:1, 7; 44:2, 21, 24 ↩
41. Isaiah 27:11 Is 9:17 ↩
42. Isaiah 27:12 Is 11:11; 17:6; 24:13; 56:8 ↩
43. Isaiah 27:12 Gen 15:18 ↩
44. Isaiah 27:12 Deut 30:3, 4; Neh 1:9 ↩
45. Isaiah 27:13 Lev 25:9; 1 Chr 15:24; Matt 24:31; Rev 11:15 ↩
46. Isaiah 27:13 Is 19:24, 25 ↩
47. Isaiah 27:13 Is 19:21, 23; 49:7; 66:23; Zech 14:16; Heb 12:22 ↩

The Deliverance of Israel

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