1 In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword — the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan — a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan — a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that [is] in the sea. 2 In that day, 'A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her, 3 I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it! 4 Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier — a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once. 5 Or — he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me. 6 Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world [with] increase. 7 As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay? 8 In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind, 9 Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this [is] all the fruit — To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not — shrines and images. 10 For the fenced city [is] alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches. 11 In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it [is] not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it. 12 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel. 13 And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount — in Jerusalem!
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Isaiah 27 Young's Literal Translation
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- 1 Ezekiel 29:3; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 66:16; Revelation 12:3–13:2; Revelation 20:2
- 2 Jeremiah 2:21; Psalm 80:8–19; Isaiah 5:1–7; Numbers 21:17; Luke 20:9–18
- 3 Isaiah 58:11; John 15:1–2; 1 Samuel 2:9; Psalm 121:3–5; Ezekiel 37:14
- 4 Isaiah 10:17; Hebrews 6:8; Matthew 3:12; Psalm 85:3; 2 Samuel 23:6
- 5 Isaiah 25:4; Job 22:21; Ephesians 2:16–17; Isaiah 57:19; Isaiah 26:3–4
- 6 Isaiah 37:31; Hosea 14:5–6; Romans 11:16–26; Isaiah 54:1–3; Hosea 2:23
- 7 Isaiah 37:36–38; Jeremiah 30:11–16; Jeremiah 51:24; Daniel 2:31–35; Jeremiah 50:40
- 8 Ezekiel 19:12; Jeremiah 4:11; Jeremiah 10:24; Hosea 4:1; 1 Peter 1:6
- 9 Isaiah 48:10; Romans 11:27; Isaiah 17:8; Daniel 11:35; Zechariah 13:2
- 10 Isaiah 17:2; Isaiah 32:13–14; Micah 3:12; Jeremiah 26:6; Isaiah 17:9
- 11 Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 43:7; Isaiah 43:1; Jeremiah 8:7
- 12 Genesis 15:18; Isaiah 56:8; Deuteronomy 30:3–4; Nehemiah 1:9; Isaiah 17:6
- 13 Matthew 24:31; Leviticus 25:9; Hebrews 12:22; Isaiah 19:23–25; Zechariah 14:16
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Even as Esaias saith, "The children of Jacob shall strike root, and Israel shall flourish, and the whole world shall be filled with his fruit." The fruit, therefore, having been sown throughout all the world, she (Jerusalem) was deservedly forsaken, and those things which had formerly brought forth fruit abundantly were taken away; for from these, according to the flesh, …
And Esaias knowing the feebleness of the Chief Priests, and the women's strength of faith, says, Ye women, who come from beholding, come hither; for the people hath no understanding;--the Chief Priests want understanding, while women are eye-witnesses.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)