Isaiah 27:2-13
World English Bible
2 In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard! 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? 8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more. 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 27:2-13
International Standard Version
2 At that time,[a]
“A fermenting[b] vineyard—
sing about it!
3 I, the Lord, watch over it
And I water it continuously.
I guard it night and day
so no one can harm it.
4 I am not angry.
If only the vineyard[c] could give me briers and thorns[d] to battle,
I would march against it,
and[e] I would burn it all up.
5 Or else let it lay claim to my protection;
let it make peace with me,
yes, let it make peace with me.”
6 In times to come, Jacob will take root,
and[f] Israel will blossom, sprout shoots,
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Has the Lord[g] struck them down,
just as he struck down those who struck them?
Or have they been killed,
just as their killers were killed?
8 Measure by measure,[h]
in their exile you contended with them;
with his fierce blast he removed them,
as on a day when the east wind blows.
9 By this, then, Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for,
and this will be the full harvest
that comes from the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the altar stones
like pulverized chalkstones,
no Asherah[i] poles or incense altars will be left standing.
10 For the fortified city stands desolate,
a settlement abandoned and forsaken like the desert;
calves graze there,
and there they lie down
and strip bare its branches.
11 When its branches are dry,
they are broken off,
and women come and kindle fires with them,
since this is a people who show no consideration.
That is why the One who made them shows them no compassion;
the One who created them shows them no mercy.
Assyria and Egypt Exiles Redeemed
12 At that time,[j] the Lord will winnow grain from the Euphrates River[k] channel to the Wadi[l] of Egypt,[m] and you will be gathered in one by one, O people of Israel. 13 Furthermore, at that time,[n] a great trumpet will be sounded, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and those who had been expelled[o] to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on his holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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- Isaiah 27:2 Lit. On that day
- Isaiah 27:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read pleasant
- Isaiah 27:4 Lit. only it
- Isaiah 27:4 So 1QIsaa; MT reads thorns
- Isaiah 27:4 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and
- Isaiah 27:6 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks and
- Isaiah 27:7 Lit. Has he
- Isaiah 27:8 Or With war cries
- Isaiah 27:9 Or sacred
- Isaiah 27:12 Lit. On that day
- Isaiah 27:12 DSS MT lack River
- Isaiah 27:12 I.e. a seasonal stream or river that channels water during rain seasons but is dry at other times
- Isaiah 27:12 I.e. the southwestern-most border of ancient Philistia
- Isaiah 27:13 Lit. Furthermore, on that day
- Isaiah 27:13 Or exiled
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