Isaiah 27

New King James Version

Israel Will Be Restored

27 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
^(A)Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay ^(B)the reptile that is in the sea.

The Restoration of Israel

²In that day ^(C)sing to her,
^(D)“A vineyard of ^[a]red wine!
³^(E)I, the Lord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.
⁴Fury is not in Me.
Who would set ^(F)briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
⁵Or let him take hold ^(G)of My strength,
That he may ^(H)make peace with Me;
And he shall make peace with Me.”

⁶Those who come He shall cause ^(I)to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.

⁷^(J)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?
⁸^(K)In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
^(L)He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
⁹Therefore 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.

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

¹²And 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 ^(Q)gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.

¹³^(R)So it shall be in that day:
^(S)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 ^(T)Egypt,
And shall ^(U)worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Footnotes

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

Acts 23:12-35

New King James Version

¹²And when it was day, ^(A)some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had ^(B)killed Paul. ¹³Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy. ¹⁴They came to the chief priests and ^(C)elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul. ¹⁵Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you ^[a]tomorrow, as though you were going to make further inquiries concerning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

¹⁶So when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their ambush, he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. ¹⁷Then Paul called one of the centurions to him and said, “Take this young man to the commander, for he has something to tell him.” ¹⁸So he took him and brought him to the commander and said, “Paul the prisoner called me to him and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to say to you.”

¹⁹Then the commander took him by the hand, went aside, and asked privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”

²⁰And he said, ^(D)“The Jews have agreed to ask that you bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire more fully about him. ²¹But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them lie in wait for him, men who have bound themselves by an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you.”

²²So the commander let the young man depart, and commanded him, “Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me.”

Sent to Felix

²³And he called for two centurions, saying, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to ^(E)Caesarea at the third hour of the night; ²⁴and provide mounts to set Paul on, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.” ²⁵He wrote a letter in the following manner:

²⁶Claudius Lysias,

To the most excellent governor Felix:

Greetings.

²⁷^(F)This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them. Coming with the troops I rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman. ²⁸^(G)And when I wanted to know the reason they accused him, I brought him before their council. ²⁹I found out that he was accused ^(H)concerning questions of their law, ^(I)but had nothing charged against him deserving of death or chains. ³⁰And ^(J)when it was told me that ^[b]the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him immediately to you, and ^(K)also commanded his accusers to state before you the charges against him.

Farewell.

³¹Then the soldiers, as they were commanded, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris. ³²The next day they left the horsemen to go on with him, and returned to the barracks. ³³When they came to ^(L)Caesarea and had delivered the ^(M)letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him. ³⁴And when the governor had read it, he asked what province he was from. And when he understood that he was from ^(N)Cilicia, ³⁵he said, ^(O)“I will hear you when your accusers also have come.” And he commanded him to be kept in ^(P)Herod’s ^[c]Praetorium.