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Isaiah 27:2-13
New Living Translation
Isaiah 27:2-13
New Living Translation
2 “In that day,
sing about the fruitful vineyard.
3 I, the Lord, will watch over it,
watering it carefully.
Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
4 My anger will be gone.
If I find briers and thorns growing,
I will attack them;
I will burn them up—
5 unless they turn to me for help.
Let them make peace with me;
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6 The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root.
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole earth with fruit!
7 Has the Lord struck Israel
as he struck her enemies?
Has he punished her
as he punished them?
8 No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
She was exiled from her land
as though blown away in a storm from the east.
9 The Lord did this to purge Israel’s[a] wickedness,
to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.
10 The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
chewing on twigs and branches.
11 The people are like the dead branches of a tree,
broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots.
Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
for its people have turned away from God.
Therefore, the one who made them
will show them no pity or mercy.
12 Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River[b] in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west. 13 In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the Lord on his holy mountain.
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Isaiah 27:2-13
Common English Bible
Isaiah 27:2-13
Common English Bible
2 On that day:
Sing about a delightful vineyard!
3 I, the Lord, am its guardian.
Every moment I water it;
night and day I guard it from attack.
4 I’m not angry,
but if it yields thorns and thistles for me,
I will march to battle against it;
I will torch it completely.
5 Or let them[a] cling to me for refuge;
let them make peace with me;
let them make peace with me.
6 In coming days,[b]
Jacob will take root;
Israel will blossom and sprout
and fill the whole world with produce.
7 Did God strike Israel as he struck those who struck him?
Was Israel killed as his killers were killed?[c]
8 By frightening Jerusalem, by sending her away,[d]
you contended with her,
expelling with a fierce blast
on the day of the east wind.
9 By this Jacob’s guilt is reconciled,
and this was how his sins were finally removed:
he made all the altar stones like shattered chalk,
sacred poles[e] and incense altars that couldn’t stand.
10 The fortified city lies alone,
a hut forsaken,
abandoned like the desert.
Calves graze there;
they lie down there and feed on its boughs.
11 When its branches are dry, they are broken.
Women come and set fire to it.
These people have no understanding;
therefore, their maker won’t have compassion;
the one who formed them won’t be gracious.
12 On that day, the Lord will beat grain from the channel of the Euphrates up to the Valley of Egypt. You will be collected, Israelites, one by one. 13 On that day, a great trumpet will be played. Those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come. They will bow to the Lord at his holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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- Isaiah 27:5 Or it
- Isaiah 27:6 Or those coming
- Isaiah 27:7 Heb uncertain
- Isaiah 27:8 Heb uncertain
- Isaiah 27:9 Heb asherim, perhaps objects devoted to the goddess Asherah
Isaiah 27:2-13
New International Version
Isaiah 27:2-13
New International Version
2 In that day(A)—
“Sing(B) about a fruitful vineyard:(C)
3 I, the Lord, watch over it;
I water(D) it continually.
I guard(E) it day and night
so that no one may harm(F) it.
4 I 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.(G)
5 Or else let them come to me for refuge;(H)
let them make peace(I) with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6 In days to come Jacob will take root,(J)
Israel will bud and blossom(K)
and fill all the world with fruit.(L)
7 Has the Lord struck her
as he struck(M) down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8 By warfare[a] and exile(N) you contend with her—
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind(O) blows.
9 By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned(P) for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:(Q)
When he makes all the altar stones(R)
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles[b](S) or incense altars(T)
will be left standing.
10 The fortified city stands desolate,(U)
an abandoned settlement, forsaken(V) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,(W)
there they lie down;(X)
they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(Y)
and women come and make fires(Z) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(AA)
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator(AB) shows them no favor.(AC)
12 In that day the Lord will thresh(AD) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(AE) and you, Israel, will be gathered(AF) up one by one. 13 And in that day(AG) a great trumpet(AH) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled(AI) in Egypt(AJ) will come and worship(AK) the Lord on the holy mountain(AL) in Jerusalem.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
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