Isaiah 27-28
1599 Geneva Bible
27 A prophecy against the kingdom of Satan. 2 And of the joy of the Church for their deliverance.
1 In that [a]day the Lord with his sore and great and mighty [b]sword shall visit Leviathan, that piercing serpent, even Leviathan, that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing of the vineyard [c]of red wine.
3 I the Lord do keep it: I will water it every moment: lest any assail it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Anger [d]is not in me: who would set the briers and the thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or will he [e]feel my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me?
6 [f]Hereafter Jacob shall take root: Israel shall flourish and grow: and the world shall be filled with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten [g]him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by him?
8 In [h]measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contend with it, when he bloweth with his rough wind in the day of the East wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the [i]fruit, the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altars, as chalk stones broken in pieces, that the groves and images may not stand up.
10 Yet the [j]defensed city shall be desolate, and the habitation shall be forsaken, and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs of it are dry, they shall be broken: the [k]women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of none understanding: therefore he that made them shall not have compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall have no mercy on them.
12 And in that day shall the Lord thresh from the channel of the [l]river unto the river of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered, one by one, O children of Israel.
13 In that day also shall the great trumpet be [m]blown, and they shall come, which perished in the land of Assyria, and they that were chased into the land of Egypt, and they shall worship the Lord in the holy Mount at Jerusalem.
28 Against the pride and drunkenness of Israel. 9 The untowardness of them that should learn the word of God. 24 God doeth all things in time and place.
1 Woe to the [n]crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim: for his glorious beauty shall be a fading flower, which is upon the head of the [o]valley of them that be fat, and are overcome with wine.
2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and [p]strong host like a tempest of hail, and a whirlwind that overthroweth, like a tempest of mighty waters that overflow, which throw to the ground mightily.
3 They shall be trodden under foot, even the crown and the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.
4 For his glorious beauty shall be a fading flower, which is upon the head of the valley of them that be fat, and as [q]the hasty fruit afore Summer, which when he hath looketh upon it, seeth it, while it is in his hand, he eateth it.
5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty unto the [r]residue of his people:
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for [s]strength unto them that turn away the battle to the gate.
7 But [t]they have erred because of wine, and are out of the way by strong drink: the Priest and the prophet have erred by strong drink: they are swallowed up with wine: they have gone astray through strong drink: they fail in vision: they stumble in judgment.
8 For all their tables are full of filthy vomiting: no place is clean.
9 [u]Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the things that he heareth? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For [v]precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, there a little, and there a little.
11 For with a stammering [w]tongue, and with a strange language shall he speak unto this people.
12 Unto whom [x]he said, [y]This is the rest: [z]give rest unto him that is weary, and this is the refreshing, but they would not hear.
13 Therefore shall the word of the [aa]Lord be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line unto line, line unto line, there a little and there a little: that they may go and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people, which is at Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a [ab]covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement: though a scourge run over, and pass through, it shall not come at us: for we have made [ac]falsehood our refuge, and under vanity are we hid,
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lay in Zion a stone, a [ad]tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. He that believeth, [ae]shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the rule, and [af]righteousness to the balance, and the [ag]hail shall sweep away the vain confidence, and the waters shall overflow [ah]the secret place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand: when a scourge shall run over and pass through, then shall ye be trodden down by it.
19 When it passeth over, it shall take you away: for it shall pass through every morning in the day and in the night, and there shall be only [ai]fear, to make you to understand the hearing.
20 For the bed is [aj]strait, that it cannot suffice, and the covering narrow, that one cannot wrap himself.
21 For the Lord shall stand as in mount [ak]Perazim: he shall be wroth as in the valley [al]of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be no mockers, lest your bonds increase: for I have heard of the Lord of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Hearken ye, and hear my voice: hearken ye, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all the day, to sow? doth he open, and break the clots of his ground?
25 When he hath made it [am]plain, will he not then sow the fitches, and sow cumin, and cast in wheat by measure, and the appointed barley and rye in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to have discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For fitches shall not be threshed with a threshing instrument, neither shall a cartwheel be turned about upon the cumin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.
28 Bread corn when it is threshed, he doth not always thresh it, neither doth the wheel of his cart still make a noise, neither will he break it with the teeth thereof.
29 This also cometh from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in works.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:1 At the time appointed.
- Isaiah 27:1 That is, by his mighty power, and by his word. He prophesieth here of the destruction of Satan and his kingdom under the name of Leviathan, Assyria, and Egypt.
- Isaiah 27:2 Meaning, of the best wine, which this vineyard, that is, the Church should bring forth, as most agreeable to the Lord.
- Isaiah 27:4 Therefore he will destroy the kingdom of Satan, because he loveth his Church for his own mercy’s sake, and cannot be angry with it, but wisheth that he may pour his anger upon the wicked infidels, whom he meaneth by briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 27:5 He marveleth that Israel will not come by gentleness, except God make them to feel his rods, and so bring them unto him.
- Isaiah 27:6 Though I afflict and diminish my people for a time, yet shall the root spring again and bring forth in great abundance.
- Isaiah 27:7 He showeth that God punisheth his in mercy, and his enemies in justice.
- Isaiah 27:8 That is, thou wilt not destroy the root of thy Church, though the branches thereof seem to perish by the sharp wind of affliction.
- Isaiah 27:9 He showeth that there is no true repentance, nor full reconciliation to God, till the heart be purged from all idolatry, and the monuments thereof be destroyed.
- Isaiah 27:10 Notwithstanding his favor that he will show them after, yet Jerusalem shall be destroyed, and grass for cattle shall grow in it.
- Isaiah 27:11 God shall not have need of mighty enemies: for the very women shall do it to their great shame.
- Isaiah 27:12 He shall destroy all from Euphrates to the Nile: for some fled toward Egypt, thinking to have escaped.
- Isaiah 27:13 In the time of Cyrus, by whom they should be delivered: but this was chiefly accomplished under Christ.
- Isaiah 28:1 Meaning, the proud kingdom of the Israelites, which were drunken with worldly prosperity.
- Isaiah 28:1 Because the Israelites for the most part dwelt in plentiful valleys, he meaneth hereby the valley of them that had abundance of worldly prosperity, and were as it were crowned therewith as with garlands.
- Isaiah 28:2 He seemeth to mean the Assyrians, by whom the ten tribes were carried away.
- Isaiah 28:4 Which is not of long continuance, but is soon ripe and first eaten.
- Isaiah 28:5 Signifying, that the faithful, which put not their trust in any worldly prosperity, but made God their glory, shall be preserved.
- Isaiah 28:6 He will give counsel to the governor, and strength to the captain, to drive the enemies in at their own gates.
- Isaiah 28:7 Meaning, the hypocrites which were among them, and were altogether corrupt in life and doctrine, which is here meant by drunkenness and vomiting.
- Isaiah 28:9 For there was none that was able to understand any good doctrine: but were foolish and as unmeet as young babes.
- Isaiah 28:10 They must have one thing ofttimes told.
- Isaiah 28:11 Let one teach what he can, yet they shall no more understand him, than if he spake in a strange language.
- Isaiah 28:12 That is, the Prophet, whom God should send.
- Isaiah 28:12 This is the doctrine, whereupon ye ought to stay and rest.
- Isaiah 28:12 Show to them that are weary and have need of rest, what is the true rest.
- Isaiah 28:13 Because they will not receive the word of God, when it is offered, it cometh of their own malice, if after their hearts be so hardened, that they care not for it, as before, Isa. 6:9.
- Isaiah 28:15 They thought they had shifts to avoid God’s judgments, and that they could escape though all others perished.
- Isaiah 28:15 Though the prophets condemned their idols and vain trust of falsehood and vanity, yet the wicked thought in themselves that they would trust in these things.
- Isaiah 28:16 That is, Christ, by whom all the building must be tried and upheld, Ps. 118:22; Matt. 21:42; Acts 4:11; Rom. 9:33; 1 Pet. 2:6.
- Isaiah 28:16 He shall be quiet, and seek none other remedies, but be content with Christ.
- Isaiah 28:17 In the restitution of his Church, judgment and justice shall reign.
- Isaiah 28:17 God’s corrections and afflictions.
- Isaiah 28:17 Affliction shall discover their vain confidence, which they kept secret to themselves.
- Isaiah 28:19 Terror and destruction shall make you to learn that, which exhortations and gentleness could not bring you unto.
- Isaiah 28:20 Your affliction shall be so sore, that you are not able to endure it.
- Isaiah 28:21 When David overcame the Philistines, 2 Sam. 5:20; 1 Chron. 14:11.
- Isaiah 28:21 Where Joshua discomfited five kings of the Amorites, Josh. 10:12.
- Isaiah 28:25 As the plowman hath his appointed time, and divers instruments for his labor, so hath the Lord for his vengeance: for he punisheth some at one time, and some at another, some after one sort, and some after another, so that his chosen seed is beaten and tried, but not broken, as are the wicked.
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