Isaiah 27:2-13
New American Standard Bible
2 On that day,
“A [a](A)vineyard of beauty, sing of it!
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
(B)I water it every moment.
So that no one will [b]damage it,
I (C)guard it night and day.
4 I have no wrath.
Should [c]someone give Me (D)briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, (E)I would burn them [d]completely.
5 Or let him [e](F)rely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him (G)make peace with Me.”
6 [f]In the days to come Jacob (H)will take root,
Israel will (I)blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the [g]whole world with (J)fruit.
7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has (K)He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, [h]have they been slain?
8 You contended with them [i]by banishing them, by (L)driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the (M)east wind.
9 Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be (N)forgiven;
And this will be [j]the full price of the [k](O)pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the (P)altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When [l]Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is (Q)isolated,
A [m]homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert;
(R)There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and [n]feed on its branches.
11 When its (S)limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make 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 On that day the Lord (W)will thresh from the flowing stream of the (X)Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be (Y)gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel. 13 It will come about also on that day that a great (Z)trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of (AA)Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and (AB)worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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- Isaiah 27:2 Some mss a vineyard of wine
- Isaiah 27:3 Lit punish
- Isaiah 27:4 Lit who
- Isaiah 27:4 Lit altogether
- Isaiah 27:5 Lit take hold of
- Isaiah 27:6 Lit Those coming
- Isaiah 27:6 Lit face of the world
- Isaiah 27:7 Lit he was slain
- Isaiah 27:8 Some ancient versions by exact measure
- Isaiah 27:9 Lit all the fruit
- Isaiah 27:9 Lit removing
- Isaiah 27:9 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
- Isaiah 27:10 Lit pasture
- Isaiah 27:10 Lit consume
Isaiah 27:2-13
Common English Bible
2 On that day:
Sing about a delightful vineyard!
3 I, the Lord, am its guardian.
Every moment I water it;
night and day I guard it from attack.
4 I’m not angry,
but if it yields thorns and thistles for me,
I will march to battle against it;
I will torch it completely.
5 Or let them[a] cling to me for refuge;
let them make peace with me;
let them make peace with me.
6 In coming days,[b]
Jacob will take root;
Israel will blossom and sprout
and fill the whole world with produce.
7 Did God strike Israel as he struck those who struck him?
Was Israel killed as his killers were killed?[c]
8 By frightening Jerusalem, by sending her away,[d]
you contended with her,
expelling with a fierce blast
on the day of the east wind.
9 By this Jacob’s guilt is reconciled,
and this was how his sins were finally removed:
he made all the altar stones like shattered chalk,
sacred poles[e] and incense altars that couldn’t stand.
10 The fortified city lies alone,
a hut forsaken,
abandoned like the desert.
Calves graze there;
they lie down there and feed on its boughs.
11 When its branches are dry, they are broken.
Women come and set fire to it.
These people have no understanding;
therefore, their maker won’t have compassion;
the one who formed them won’t be gracious.
12 On that day, the Lord will beat grain from the channel of the Euphrates up to the Valley of Egypt. You will be collected, Israelites, one by one. 13 On that day, a great trumpet will be played. Those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come. They will bow to the Lord at his holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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- Isaiah 27:5 Or it
- Isaiah 27:6 Or those coming
- Isaiah 27:7 Heb uncertain
- Isaiah 27:8 Heb uncertain
- Isaiah 27:9 Heb asherim, perhaps objects devoted to the goddess Asherah
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