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Text -- Isaiah 27:1-12 (NET)
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27:1 At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive , great , and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent , Leviathan the squirming serpent ; he will kill the sea monster .
27:2 When that time comes, sing about a delightful vineyard !
27:3 I , the Lord , protect it; I water it regularly . I guard it night and day , so no one can harm it.
27:4 I am not angry . I wish I could confront some thorns and briers ! Then I would march against them for battle ; I would set them all on fire ,
27:5 unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.
27:6 The time is coming when Jacob will take root ; Israel will blossom and grow branches . The produce will fill the surface of the world .
27:7 Has the Lord struck down Israel like he did their oppressors ? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?
27:8 When you summon her for divorce , you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind .
27:9 So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven , and this is how they will show they are finished sinning : They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone , and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand .
27:10 For the fortified city is left alone ; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert . Calves graze there ; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.
27:11 When its branches get brittle , they break ; women come and use them for kindling . For these people lack understanding , therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
27:12 At that time the Lord will shake the tree, from the Euphrates River to the Stream of Egypt . Then you will be gathered up one by one , O Israelites .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Isaiah |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
Leviathan |
Parables |
Church |
God |
Dragon |
Symbols and Similitudes |
Altar |
River of Egypt |
STREAM OF EGYPT |
Vineyard |
WINDS |
Chalk |
SERPENT, CROOKED |
WIND |
Blindness |
FIRE |
SUN-WORSHIP |
Afflictions and Adversities |
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NET Notes -> Isa 27:1; Isa 27:1; Isa 27:1; Isa 27:1; Isa 27:1; Isa 27:2; Isa 27:2; Isa 27:3; Isa 27:3; Isa 27:3; Isa 27:4; Isa 27:4; Isa 27:5; Isa 27:5; Isa 27:6; Isa 27:6; Isa 27:6; Isa 27:7; Isa 27:7; Isa 27:8; Isa 27:8; Isa 27:8; Isa 27:9; Isa 27:9; Isa 27:9; Isa 27:9; Isa 27:10; Isa 27:10; Isa 27:10; Isa 27:11; Isa 27:11; Isa 27:11; Isa 27:12; Isa 27:12; Isa 27:12; Isa 27:12
NET Notes: Isa 27:1 In the Ugaritic mythological texts Leviathan is a sea creature that symbolizes the destructive water of the sea and in turn the forces of chaos that t...
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NET Notes: Isa 27:2 Heb “vineyard of delight,” or “vineyard of beauty.” Many medieval mss read כֶּרֶם ח&...
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NET Notes: Isa 27:4 Heb “it.” The feminine singular suffix apparently refers back to the expression “thorns and briers,” understood in a collectiv...
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NET Notes: Isa 27:5 The Hebrew text has, “he makes peace with me, peace he makes with me.” Some contend that two alternative readings are preserved here and o...
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NET Notes: Isa 27:7 The Hebrew text reads literally, “Or like the killing of his killed ones is he killed?” If one accepts the interpretation of the parallel ...
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NET Notes: Isa 27:9 As interpreted and translated above, this verse says that Israel must totally repudiate its pagan religious practices in order to experience God’...
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NET Notes: Isa 27:10 Heb “and destroy her branches.” The city is the antecedent of the third feminine singular pronominal suffix. Apparently the city is here c...
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