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In that day:

Sing of it! A vineyard of red wine.
I, the Lord, am its keeper;
I water it every moment;
lest anyone damage it,
    I protect it night and day.
    I have no fury.
Should someone give Me briers and thorns in battle,
    then I would step on them,
    I would burn them fully.
Or let him rely on My strength;
    let him make peace with Me;
    let him make peace with Me.

In the days to come Jacob shall take root;
    Israel shall blossom and bud
    and shall fill the whole world with fruit.

Has He struck them,
    as He struck those who struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain,
    have they been slain?
You fought with them by banishing them, by driving them away.
    He has expelled them
    on the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.
Through this, therefore, the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven,
    and this will be the full price of the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the stones of the altar
    as chalkstones that are pulverized,
when the groves and incense altars
    shall not stand.
10 For the fortified city shall be desolate,
    a homestead forlorn and forsaken like a wilderness;
there the calf shall graze,
    and there it shall lie down
    and eat its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they are broken off;
    the women come and make a fire with them,
for they are not a people of understanding;
    therefore, their Maker will not have mercy on them,
    and their Creator will show them no grace.

12 In that day the Lord shall thresh from the channel of the River[a] to the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O sons of Israel. 13 And in that day the great trumpet shall be blown, and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:12 Euphrates River.

The Restoration of Israel

In that day (A)sing to her,
(B)“A vineyard of [a]red wine!
(C)I, the Lord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.
Fury is not in Me.
Who would set (D)briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
Or let him take hold (E)of My strength,
That he may (F)make peace with Me;
And he shall make peace with Me.”

Those who come He shall cause (G)to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.

(H)Has He struck [b]Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
(I)In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
(J)He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
[c]Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

10 Yet the fortified city will be (K)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (L)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (M)not have mercy on them,
And (N)He who formed them will show them no favor.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of [d]the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be (O)gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.

13 (P)So it shall be in that day:
(Q)The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of (R)Egypt,
And shall (S)worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:2 So with MT (Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica), Bg., Vg.; MT (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), some Heb. mss., LXX delight; Tg. choice vineyard
  2. Isaiah 27:7 Lit. him
  3. Isaiah 27:9 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
  4. Isaiah 27:12 The Euphrates