The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

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- Chapter 27 -

(John 15:1–8)

In that day, the Lord will visit, with his harsh and great and strong sword, against Leviathan, the barred serpent, and against Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will slay the whale that is in the sea.(a)

In that day, the vineyard of pure wine will sing to them.(b)

I am the Lord, who watches over it. I will suddenly give drink to it. I will watch over it, night and day, lest perhaps someone visit against it.(c)

Indignation is not mine. Who will be a thorn and a brier to me in battle? I will advance against them. I set them on fire together.(d)

Or will he, instead, take hold of my strength? Will he make peace with me? Will she make peace with me?(e)

As they advance with violence against Jacob, Israel will flourish and spring forth, and they will fill the face of the world with offspring.(f)

Has he struck him with the scourge that he himself used to strike others? Or has he killed in the manner that he himself used to kill his victims?(g)

You will judge this by comparing one measure to another, when he has been cast out. He has decided this, by his stern spirit, for the day of heat.(h)

(i)

Therefore, concerning this, the iniquity of the house of Jacob will be forgiven. And this is the reward of all: that their sin be taken away, when he will have made all the stones of the altar to be like crushed cinders. For the sacred groves and the shrines shall not stand.(j)

For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits.(k)

Its harvest will be crushed by dryness. Women will arrive and teach it, for it is not a wise people. Because of this, he who made it will not take pity on it, and he who formed it will not spare it.

And this shall be: in that day, the Lord will strike, from the channel of the river, even to the torrent of Egypt. And you shall be gathered together, one by one, O sons of Israel.

And this shall be: in that day, a noise will be made with a great trumpet. And those who had been lost will approach from the land of the Assyrians, with those who had been outcasts in the land of Egypt. And they will adore the Lord, on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.(l)

Footnotes

(a)27:1 Leviathan:That is, the devil, the great enemy of the people of God. He is called the bar serpent from his strength, and the crooked serpent from his wiles; and the whale of the sea, from the tyranny he exercises in the sea of this world. He was spiritually slain by the death of Christ, when his power was destroyed.(Challoner)

(b)27:2 The vineyard, etc:The church of Christ.(Challoner)

(d)27:4 No indignation in me, etc:Viz., against the church: nor shall I become as a thorn or brier in its regard; or march against it, or set it on fire: but it shall always take fast hold of me, and keep an everlasting peace with me.(Challoner)

(e)27:5 The word ‘spinam’ is feminine and the word ‘veprem’ is masculine, hence the translation: “will he…will she….” The spine represents the false prophetess of the Book of Revelation, and the brier represents the Antichrist.(Conte)

(f)27:6 When they shall rush in, etc:Some understand this of the enemies of the true Israel, that shall invade it in vain. Others of the spiritual invasion made by the apostles of Christ.(Challoner)

(g)27:7 Has he struck him, etc:Has God punished the carnal persecuting Jews, in proportion to their doings against Christ and his saints?(Challoner)

(h)27:8 When it shall be cast off, etc:When the synagogue shall be cast off, you shall judge it in measure, and in proportion to its crimes.(Challoner)

(i)27:8 He has meditated, etc:God has designed severe punishments in the day of his wrath.(Challoner)

(j)27:9 Of the house of Jacob:Viz., of such of them as shall be converted.(Challoner)

(k)27:10 The strong city:Jerusalem.(Challoner)

(l)27:13 A great trumpet:The preaching of the gospel for the conversion of the Jews.(Challoner)

(John 15:1–8)

In that day, the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

I, the LORD, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

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.

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

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.

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.

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.

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.

It will happen in that day that the LORD 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.

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 the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.