Isaiah 27:2-13
Legacy Standard Bible
2 In that day,
“A [a](A)vineyard of delight, sing of it!
3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper;
(B)I water it every moment.
Lest anyone [b]damage it,
I (C)keep it night and day.
4 I have no wrath.
Who would ever give Me (D)briars and thorns in the battle?
I would step on them, (E)I would burn them [c]completely.
5 Or let him [d](F)rely on My strong defense,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him (G)make peace with Me.”
6 [e]In the days to come Jacob (H)will take root,
Israel will (I)blossom and bud,
And they will fill the [f]whole world with (J)produce.
7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has (K)He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of those of His who were killed, [g]have they been killed?
8 You contended with them [h]by driving them away, by (L)making them forlorn.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the (M)east wind.
9 Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be (N)atoned for;
And this will be the whole fruit of the (O)turning away of his sin:
When he makes all the (P)altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,
When [i]Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is (Q)isolated,
A [j]haunt [k]forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
(R)There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and [l]feed on its twigs.
11 When its (S)limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and light a fire with them,
For they are not a people of (T)discernment,
Therefore (U)their Maker (V)will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12 And it will be in that day, that Yahweh (W)will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the [m](X)River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be (Y)gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. 13 And it will be in that day, that a great (Z)trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of (AA)Assyria and who were banished in the land of Egypt will come and (AB)worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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- Isaiah 27:2 Some mss vineyard of wine
- Isaiah 27:3 Lit punish
- Isaiah 27:4 Lit altogether
- Isaiah 27:5 Lit take hold of
- Isaiah 27:6 Lit Those coming
- Isaiah 27:6 Lit face of
- Isaiah 27:7 Lit he was slain
- Isaiah 27:8 Some ancient versions by exact measure
- Isaiah 27:9 Wooden symbols of a female deity
- Isaiah 27:10 Lit pasture
- Isaiah 27:10 Lit sent away
- Isaiah 27:10 Lit consume
- Isaiah 27:12 The Euphrates River
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
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