Isaiah chapter 27
The destiny of Leviathan and the dragon. The vineyard of Israel is made fruitful. The LORD regathers Israel.
THE DESTINY OF LEVIATHAN AND THE DRAGON
VERSE 1. 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.
NLT translation. In that day the LORD will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
terrible, swift sword. “He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.”
Leviathan. Leviathan is a sea monster in the Bible. It is large. It breathes fire and sparks. It is a created being. We see it as exemplifying the Power of God. Read more »
the dragon. The dragon is a big part of the Book of Revelation.
THE VINEYARD OF ISRAEL IS MADE FRUITFUL
VERSE 2. In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
A pleasant vineyard. That is, Israel.
VERSE 3. I, the LORD, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.
VERSE 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.
VERSE 5. Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”
NAB translation. He must make peace with me; peace shall he make with me!
make peace with me. That is, turn back to the LORD God. Put yourself under his power.
VERSE 6. In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
NLT translation. The time is coming when my people will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with her fruit!
fill the whole earth with her fruit! The LORD God calls us to be spiritually fruitful. We are to bear fruit for the kingdom of God. But in our day, the fruitfulness of many Christians has been hijacked. Read more »
VERSE 7. Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
NAB translation. Is he to be smitten as his smitter was smitten? or slain as his slayer was slain?
smitten as his smitter was smitten. This is an odd phrase.
VERSE 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.
VERSE 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.
the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven. That is, this is how their wickedness will be purged.
VERSE 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.
VERSE 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.
they are a people of no understanding. Isaiah says Israel is a foolish and stupid nation.
Their stupidity is that they ignored the LORD God.
THE LORD REGATHERS ISRAEL
VERSE 12. 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.
The LORD God will gather all people. He will judge them, separating sheep from goats. The righteous people will be on his right; the wicked on his left. Read more »
VERSE 13. It will happen in that day that a great shofar 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.
NLT translation. In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the LORD on his holy mountain.
the great trumpet will sound. The trumpet will sound, like it does in the Book of Revelation.
return to Jerusalem. Its always about returning to Jerusalem. Those who are lost will be led back home to Jerusalem.
God seeks out those who are “lost.” We see that in the Good Shepherd who goes after the lost sheep.
In our own lives, we imitate that impulse by aiming to introduce lost people to Jesus Christ.
Have you had the experience of being spiritually lost? If you were deeply lost and then found, you must have some deep appreciation of having been “rescued.
How can you grow in compassion for those who are spiritually lost? How can you reach out to them with the message of Jesus Christ?
ISAIAH
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