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
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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