Isaiah 27

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¹In that day, Yahweh 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. ✦ ²In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard! ✦ ³I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. ✦ ⁴Wrath 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. ✦ ⁵Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.” ✦ ⁶In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. ✦ ⁷Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? ✦ ⁸In 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. ✦ ⁹Therefore 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. ✦ ¹⁰For 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. ✦ ¹¹When 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. ✦ ¹²It will happen in that day, that Yahweh 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. ✦ ¹³It 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 Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Isa 17 ·6 Isa 1 ·5 Isa 10 ·4 Isa 5 ·4 Isa 44 ·3 Heb 12 ·3 Isa 26 ·3 Isa 25 ·3

Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 27 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical
Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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VideoBibleProject — Isaiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical
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CommentaryEnduring Word — Isaiah 27David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.
CommentaryMatthew Henry on IsaiahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Isaiah 27Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free
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