Isaiah 27:2-13
Evangelical Heritage Version
2 On that day, sing about a delightful vineyard![a]
3 I, the Lord, am serving as its caretaker.
I water it constantly.
So that nothing will damage it,
I guard it night and day.
4 I am not angry,
but if I do find briers and thorns there,
I will fight them!
I will charge against them and set them all on fire.
5 To prevent this, let them turn to me for protection
and make peace with me.
Let them make peace with me![b]
6 In days to come,
Jacob will take root.
Israel will blossom and bud.
It will fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Has he struck Israel the way he struck those who struck them?
Have they been killed the same way those who killed them were killed?
8 When you drive them away[c] and send them into exile,
you make your case against them.
He drives them out with his violent storm,
as on a day when the hot east wind blows.
9 In this way the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be all the fruit that results from taking away his sin.
He will make all the altar stones like chalk that has been crushed,
and no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
10 Then the fortified city will be all alone,
a dwelling place, deserted and forsaken, like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there.
They will lie down there and eat all the leaves off the branches.
11 When its twigs are dried up, they are broken off.
Women will come and build a fire with them.
Because they are a people who have no understanding,
therefore their Maker will have no compassion on them.
He who formed them will not be gracious to them.
12 On that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing river, the Euphrates, to the Stream of Egypt,[d] and you Israelites will be gathered one by one. 13 On that day there will be a very loud blast on a ram’s horn, and those who were about to perish in the land of Assyria, together with those who were scattered in the land of Egypt, will come. They will worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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- Isaiah 27:2 Hebrew variant a vineyard of red wine
- Isaiah 27:5 The precise line of thought in verses 4 and 5 is uncertain.
- Isaiah 27:8 The meaning of this phrase is uncertain.
- Isaiah 27:12 One of the intermittent streambeds near the border of Egypt, not the Nile
Isaiah 27:2-13
Lexham English Bible
2 On that day:
“A vineyard of beauty! Sing in praise of it!
3 I, Yahweh, am her keeper;
I water it again and again.[a]
Lest one afflict harm on it,
I guard it night and day;
4 I have no wrath.[b]
Whatever gives me thorns and briers,
I will step forth against in battle.
I will set it on fire altogether.
5 Or let it grasp at my protection;
let it make peace with me;
peace let it make with me.”
6 Days are coming,[c] let Jacob take root;
Israel will blossom and send out shoots,
and they will fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Does he strike him as he struck down those who struck him?[d]
Or is he killed as those who killed him were killed?[e]
8 By expelling[f] her, by her sending away, you argue with her.
He removed them with his strong wind,
in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this he will make atonement for the guilt of Jacob,
and this will be all of the fruit of the removal of his sin:
when he makes[g] all the stones of the altar like crushed stones of chalk,
no poles of Asherah worship or incense altars will stand.
10 For the fortified city is solitary,
a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
the calf grazes there,
lies down there and destroys its branches.
11 When its branches are dry,[h] they are broken;
women are coming and setting light to it.
For it is not a people of understanding;
therefore his maker will not have compassion on him,
and his creator will not show him favor.
12 And this shall happen:
on that day, Yahweh will thresh from the floodwaters of the Euphrates to the wadi[i] of Egypt, and as for you, you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel.
13 And this shall happen:
on that day, a great trumpet will be blown,
and those who were lost in the land of Assyria will come,
and those who were scattered in the land of Egypt,
and they will bow down to Yahweh on the holy mountain[j] at Jerusalem.
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- Isaiah 27:3 Literally “by moments”
- Isaiah 27:4 Literally “There is no wrath for me”
- Isaiah 27:6 Literally “The coming ones”
- Isaiah 27:7 Literally “like the striking of one striking him”
- Isaiah 27:7 Literally “like the killing of his killed ones”
- Isaiah 27:8 Meaning uncertain, derived from the following parallel expression
- Isaiah 27:9 Literally “in his setting”
- Isaiah 27:11 Literally “In her branch being dry”
- Isaiah 27:12 A seasonal stream that is often dry
- Isaiah 27:13 Literally “mountain of holiness”
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