Jacob appears alongside cosmic warfare imagery against leviathan and dragons, uniquely linking Israel's patriarch to divine victory over primordial chaos forces.
Isaiah 27
Israel's Deliverance and Restoration
1In that day, the LORD 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, the LORD, 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 the LORD 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 the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 27 presents a vision of God's ultimate victory over evil forces and Israel's complete restoration. The chapter opens with the LORD defeating mythical sea monsters representing chaos and enemy nations, then shifts to tender imagery of God as a vineyard keeper carefully tending Israel. The prophecy concludes with a promise that scattered Israelites will be regathered from exile in Assyria and Egypt to worship in Jerusalem, their sins forgiven and idolatry purged.
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This chapter concludes the series of judgment oracles against nations (chapters 13-27) with hope for Israel's ultimate restoration.
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- 1 Victory Over Cosmic Evil God defeats leviathan and the sea dragon, symbolizing triumph over chaos and enemy powers.
- 2-6 The LORD's Vineyard Israel is portrayed as God's carefully tended vineyard that will flourish and fill the world with fruit.
- 7-9 Measured Judgment and Forgiveness God's discipline of Israel is restrained compared to their enemies, leading to purification from idolatry.
- 10-11 Desolation of the Fortified City An unnamed enemy city lies in ruins, abandoned due to its people's lack of understanding.
- 12-13 The Great Regathering Exiled Israelites from Assyria and Egypt will return to worship in Jerusalem when the trumpet sounds.
Israel's Deliverance and Restoration
27:1–27:13 prophecy hopeful
A prophecy of Israel's future deliverance and restoration, beginning with God's defeat of cosmic evil forces (leviathan). The passage promises Israel's spiritual renewal, forgiveness of sin, and regathering from exile to flourish again as God's chosen people.
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Jacob appears alongside cosmic warfare imagery against leviathan and dragons, uniquely linking Israel's patriarch to divine victory over primordial chaos forces.
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Isaiah 27:1 1 reference
Isaiah 27:4 5 references
Lexicals 5
Isaiah 7:24 Lexical
People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
Isaiah 5:6 Lexical
I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the cloud…
Isaiah 7:23 Lexical
It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be f…
Isaiah 7:25 Lexical
All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be…
Isaiah 10:17 Lexical
The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his bri…
Isaiah 27:6 1 reference
Isaiah 27:7 1 reference
Isaiah 27:9 5 references
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Isaiah 6:7 Lexical
He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your si…
Leviticus 4:35 Lexical
He shall remove all its fat, like the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest shall…
2 Chronicles 34:4 Lexical
They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and he cut down the incense altars that were on high above them…
2 Chronicles 34:7 Lexical
He broke down the altars, beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altar…
Isaiah 17:8 Lexical
They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made…
Isaiah 27:10 2 references
Isaiah 27:12 1 reference
Isaiah 27:13 1 reference
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