Isaiah 27:1-8

The Deliverance of Israel

1 In that day ¹the LORD will punish ²Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And ³He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

2 In that day, "A ⁴vineyard of wine, sing of it!

3 "I, the LORD, am its keeper; ⁵I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I ⁶guard it night and day.

4 "I have no wrath. Should someone give Me ⁷briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, ⁸I would burn them completely.

5 "Or let him ⁹rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him ¹⁰make peace with Me."

6 In the days to come Jacob ¹¹will take root, Israel will ¹²blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with ¹³fruit.

7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has ¹⁴He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

8 You contended with them by banishing them, by ¹⁵driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the ¹⁶east wind.

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Isaiah 27:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 27

This chapter refers to the same times as the two foregoing ones Isa 25:1-26:21; and is a continuation of the same song, or rather a new one on the same occasion; it is prophetical of the last times, and of what shall be done in them, as the destruction of the antichristian powers, and Satan at the head of them, Isa 27:1 the happy state of the church, and its fruitfulness under the care and protection of the Lord, and his affection for it, Isa 27:2-4 its peace, prosperity, and flourishing condition, Isa 27:5,6 the nature, use, and end of all its afflictions and chastisements, Isa 27:7-9 the ruin and destruction of the city of Rome, and its inhabitants, and of its whole jurisdiction, Isa 27:10,11 a great gathering and conversion of the Lord's people, both Jews and Gentiles, by the ministry of the Gospel, Isa 27:12,13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. Isaiah 66:16
2. Job 3:8; Job 41:1; Psalms 74:14; Psalms 104:26
3. Isaiah 51:9
4. Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 5:7; Jeremiah 2:21
5. Isaiah 58:11
6. 1 Samuel 2:9; Isaiah 31:5; John 10:28
7. 2 Samuel 23:6; Isaiah 10:17
8. Isaiah 33:12; Matthew 3:12; Hebrews 6:8
9. Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 25:4
10. Job 22:21; Isaiah 26:3, 12; Romans 5:1; 2 Corinthians 5:20
11. Isaiah 37:31
12. Isaiah 35:1, 2; Hosea 14:5, 6
13. Isaiah 4:2
14. Isaiah 10:12, 17; Isaiah 30:31-33; Isaiah 31:8, 9; Isaiah 37:36-38
15. Isaiah 50:1; Isaiah 54:7
16. Jeremiah 4:11; Ezekiel 19:12; Hosea 13:15

Footnotes 11

[a]. Or "sea monster"
[b]. Or "sea monster"
[c]. Some mss read "a vineyard of delight"
[d]. Lit "punish"
[e]. Lit "who"
[f]. Lit "altogether"
[g]. Lit "take hold of"
[h]. Lit "Those coming"
[i]. Lit "face of"
[j]. Lit "he was slain"
[k]. Some ancient versions read "by exact measure"