Isaiah 27

The Redemption of Israel

1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong d sword will punish e Leviathan the fleeing serpent, e Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay f the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day,
g "A pleasant vineyard, 1 h sing of it!
 3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
 4 I have no wrath.
i Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
 5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me."

6 j In days to come 2 Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.

7 k Has he struck them l as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain m as their slayers were slain?
 8 n Measure by measure, 3 by exile you contended with them;
o he removed them with his fierce breath 4 in the day of the east wind.
 9 Therefore by this p the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: 5
q when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no r Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
 10 s For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
t For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

12 In that day u from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 13 And in that day v a great trumpet will be blown, w and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt x will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 47:6
    Ah, sword of the Lord! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 74:14
    You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 74:14
    You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:9
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
    Ezekiel 29:3
    Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, 'My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:7
    For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:1
    In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:17
    The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:31
    And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
    Hosea 14:5 - 6
    I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon.
  9. Cross References
    Hosea 6:1 - 2
    Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:36 - 38
    And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:18 - 19
    Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 10:24
    Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
  13. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:17
    Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:14
    The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die," says the Lord God of hosts.
  15. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:4
    He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
  16. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:21
    You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:9
    In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
    Isaiah 32:14
    For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks.
    Isaiah 32:19
    And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
    Hosea 8:14
    For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
    Micah 5:11
    And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds.
  18. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:28
    For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
    Isaiah 30:16 - 18
    And you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
  19. Cross References
    Genesis 15:18
    On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
  20. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:9
    Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
    Matthew 24:31
    And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
    Revelation 11:15
    Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.
  21. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
    Isaiah 11:16
    And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
    Micah 7:12
    In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
  22. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:2
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
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