# Isaiah 27 📖: Israel's Deliverance
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> [!info] Table of Contents
> [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]]
> [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]]
> [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]]
> [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]]
> [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
> [[#💬 Discussion Questions]]
> [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]]
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
> [[#📂 Internal Notes]]
## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
[[#Verse 01.]] At that time the Lord will punish
with his destructive, great, and powerful sword
Leviathan the fast-moving serpent,
Leviathan the squirming serpent;
he will kill the sea monster.
[[#Verse 02.]] When that time comes,
sing about a delightful vineyard!
[[#Verse 03.]] “I, the Lord, protect it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day,
so no one can harm it.
[[#Verse 04.]] I am not angry.
I wish I could confront some thorns and briers!
Then I would march against them for battle;
I would set them all on fire,
[[#Verse 05.]] unless they became my subjects
and made peace with me;
let them make peace with me.”
[[#Verse 06.]] The time is coming when Jacob will take root;
Israel will blossom and grow branches.
The produce will fill the surface of the world.
[[#Verse 07.]] Has the Lord struck down Israel as he did their oppressors?
Has Israel been killed like their enemies?
[[#Verse 08.]] When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her;
he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
[[#Verse 09.]] So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven,
and this is how they will show they are finished sinning:
They will make all the stones of the altars
like crushed limestone,
and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
[[#Verse 10.]] For the fortified city is left alone;
it is a deserted settlement
and abandoned like the wilderness.
Calves graze there;
they lie down there
and eat its branches bare.
[[#Verse 11.]] When its branches get brittle, they break;
women come and use them for kindling.
For these people lack understanding,
therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;
the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
[[#Verse 12.]] At that time the Lord will shake the tree, from the Euphrates River to the Stream of Egypt. Then you will be gathered up one by one, O Israelites.
[[#Verse 13.]] At that time a large trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in the land of Egypt. They will worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary
###### Overall.
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## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights
1. Leviathan (27:1) is a sea monster used in the Bible as a symbol of chaos and evil (Job 41; Psalm 74:14).
2. Ancient texts from Ugarit describe a sea monster called Lotan using phrases very similar to the fleeing and twisting serpent in 27:1.
3. Revelation 12:9 calls Satan the ancient serpent, building on this imagery.
4. The vineyard song in 27:2-6 reverses the judgment of the first vineyard song in 5:1-7.
5. In chapter 5 God commanded the clouds not to rain on the vineyard (5:6). Here He waters it continually (27:3).
6. Israel filling the whole world with fruit (27:6) points to the worldwide spread of God's blessing.
7. Asherah poles and incense altars crushed like chalk (27:9) mark a true turning from idolatry.
8. Paul combines 27:9 and 59:20 in Romans 11:26-27 to describe God taking away Israel's sins.
9. From the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt (27:12) describes the full boundaries of the promised land (Genesis 15:18).
10. Gathered one by one (27:12) shows God's personal care for each of His people.
## 🧠 Chapter Summary
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## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter
Christ is the One who crushes the serpent (27:1; Genesis 3:15). He defeated the devil at the cross (Hebrews 2:14), and He gathers His people at the sound of the great trumpet (27:13; Matthew 24:31).
## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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## 💬 Discussion Questions
1. God slays Leviathan, the twisting serpent (27:1). What does this tell us about God's final victory over evil?
2. God now sings over His vineyard and guards it day and night (27:2-3). How does this contrast with the vineyard song in chapter 5?
3. Israel will blossom and fill the world with fruit (27:6). How does God want to use His people to bless the world?
## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember
- 📖 verse 1: The Lord will punish Leviathan, the twisting serpent.
- 📖 verse 3: The Lord watches over His vineyard and waters it continually.
- 📖 verse 13: A great trumpet will sound, and the exiles will come to worship the Lord in Jerusalem.
## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference
- 🔗 [[Genesis 03#Verse 15.|Genesis 3:15]] - The serpent's head will be crushed.
- 🔗 [[Hebrews 02#Verse 14.|Hebrews 2:14-15]] - Through death He destroyed the devil.
- 🔗 [[Revelation 12#Verse 09.|Revelation 12:9-11]] - The ancient serpent is thrown down.
- 🔗 [[Matthew 24#Verse 31.|Matthew 24:31]] - He will send His angels with a loud trumpet.
- 🔗 [[John 15#Verse 05.|John 15:5-8]] - Bearing much fruit by abiding in Christ.
## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
📝 SOAP: [[Isaiah 27 - SOAP|And It Came to Pass]]
## 📂 Internal Notes