Isaiah 27

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¹In 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. ✦ ²“In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. ✦ ³I, the Lord, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it. ✦ ⁴My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up— ✦ ⁵unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.” ✦ ⁶The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit! ✦ ⁷Has the Lord struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them? ✦ ⁸No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account. She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east. ✦ ⁹The Lord did this to purge Israel’s wickedness, to take away all her sin. As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust. No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing. ✦ ¹⁰The fortified towns will be silent and empty, the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds. Calves will graze there, chewing on twigs and branches. ✦ ¹¹The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy. ✦ ¹²Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west. ✦ ¹³In 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. ✦

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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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