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Isaiah 27:3
3I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
Isaiah 27:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day;
- New King James Version (NKJV)I, the Lord, keep it, I water it every moment; Lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I, the Lord, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
Context of Isaiah 27:3
1In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword— Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea. 2In that day— “Sing about a fruitful vineyard: I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it. 4I 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. 5Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”
Read all of Isaiah 27Isaiah 27:3 word by word
אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ נֹֽצְרָ֔הּ לִרְגָעִ֖ים אַשְׁקֶ֑נָּה פֶּ֚ן יִפְקֹ֣ד עָלֶ֔יהָ לַ֥יְלָה וָי֖וֹם אֶצֳּרֶֽנָּה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 27:3
- Isaiah 46:4Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
- Isaiah 60:16You will drink the milk of nations and be nursed at royal breasts. Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
- Genesis 6:17I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
- Genesis 9:9“I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you
- Ezekiel 34:11“ ‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.
- Ezekiel 37:14I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’ ”
- Deuteronomy 33:26“There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.
- 1 Samuel 2:9He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness. “It is not by strength that one prevails;
- Psalms 46:5God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
- Psalms 121:3He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;
- John 10:27My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
- John 15:1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
- Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
- Isaiah 35:6Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 41:13For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
- Isaiah 55:10As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
Commentaries on Isaiah 27:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day - "I will take care of her by night; and by day I will keep guard over her" - For יפקד פן pen yiphkod, lest any visit it, the Syriac read ואפקד veephkod, and I will visit it. Twenty MSS. of Kennicott's, fourteen of De Rossi's, and two of my own, and six editions read אפקד ephkod, I will visit, in the first person.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3I the Lord do keep it - There is understood here or implied an introduction; as Yahweh said‘ (compare Psalm 121:3-5). I will water it every moment - That is, constantly, as a vinedresser does his vineyard.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3God calls himself the Lord of the covenant to assure his people that his words and actions are trustworthy (see Exodus 6:2–3). This phrase appears many times in Isaiah. keeper … water … guard: The Lord will give even greater care and protection to his ultimate vineyard than he did to Israel, his first vineyard (see Isaiah 5:1–2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. lest any hurt it--attack it [Maurer]. "Lest aught be wanting in her" [Horsley].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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