Isaiah 27

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¹In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea. ✦ ²In that day sing to her, “A vineyard of red wine! ✦ ³I, the Lord, keep it, I water it every moment; Lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day. ✦ ⁴Fury is not in Me. Who would set briers and thorns Against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. ✦ ⁵Or let him take hold of My strength, That he may make peace with Me; And he shall make peace with Me.” ✦ ⁶Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of the world with fruit. ✦ ⁷Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him? Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him? ✦ ⁸In measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind. ✦ ⁹Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand. ✦ ¹⁰Yet the fortified city will be desolate, The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down And consume its branches. ✦ ¹¹When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; The women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding; Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor. ✦ ¹²And it shall come to pass in that day That the Lord will thresh, From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel. ✦ ¹³So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, And shall worship the Lord in the holy mount 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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★ Start hereVideoBibleProject — video overviews & word studiesBibleProject · 5–10 min · Free · evangelical
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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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