1An jenem TageH3117 wirdH6485 JehovaH3068 mit seinem SchwerteH2719, dem hartenH7186 und großenH1419 und starkenH2389, heimsuchen den LeviathanH3882, die flüchtigeH1281 SchlangeH5175, und den LeviathanH3882, die gewundeneH6129 SchlangeH5175, und wird das Ungeheuer tötenH2026, welches im MeereH3220 ist. 2An jenem TageH3117 wird man singenH6031 : Ein WeinbergH3754 feurigen Weines! Besinget ihn! 3IchH6485, JehovaH3068, behüteH5341 ihn, bewässere ihn alle Augenblicke; daß nichts ihn heimsuche, behüteH5341 ich ihn NachtH3915 und TagH3117. 4GrimmH2534 habe ich nicht. O hätte ich DornenH7898 und DistelnH8068 vor mir, im KriegeH4421 würde ich auf sieH5414 losschreiten, sie verbrennen allzumal! 5Oder man müßte meinen Schutz ergreifen, FriedenH7965 mit mir machenH6213, FriedenH7965 machenH6213 mit mir. 6In Zukunft wirdH6524 JakobH3290 Wurzel schlagen, IsraelH3478 blühenH6692 undH6440 knospen; und sieH935 werdenH8327 mit FrüchtenH8570 füllenH4390 die Fläche des Erdkreises. - 7HatH4347 erH5221 es geschlagen, wie erH2026 seinen Schläger schlugH5221? Oder ist es ermordet worden, wie erH2026 die Ermordeten jenes ermordete? 8Mit MaßenH5432, als du es verstießest, hastH1898 du mit ihm gerechtet; er scheuchte es hinweg mit seinem heftigen Hauche am TageH3117 des Ostwindes. 9Deshalb wirdH5771 dadurch gesühnt werdenH5493 die Ungerechtigkeit JakobsH3290. UndH4196 dies istH2063 die ganze FruchtH6529 der Hinwegnahme seiner SündeH2403 : wenn es alle AltarsteineH68 gleich zerschlagenen Kalksteinen machenH7760 wirdH3722, und Ascherim und SonnensäulenH2553 sich nichtH6965 mehr erheben. 10Denn die festeH1219 StadtH5892 istH3615 einsamH910, eine preisgegebene und verlassene Wohnstätte wie die Steppe; daselbst weidenH7462 KälberH5695, und daselbst lagernH7257 sieH7971 und fressen ihre Zweige ab; 11wenn ihre Reiser dürr geworden sindH215, werden sieH7665 abgebrochen: WeiberH802 kommenH935 und zünden sie an. Denn es ist kein verständiges VolkH5971; darum erbarmt sichH7355 seiner nicht, der es gemachtH6213, und der es gebildet hatH3001, erweist ihm keine GnadeH2603. 12UndH5104 es wird geschehen an jenem TageH3117, da wird JehovaH3068 Getreide ausschlagen von derH259 Strömung des Euphrat bis zum Bache ÄgyptensH4714; undH5158 ihr werdet zusammengelesen werdenH3950, einerH259 zu dem anderen, ihr KinderH1121 IsraelH3478. 13UndH8628 es wird geschehen anH7812 jenem TageH3117, da wird in eine großeH1419 PosauneH7782 gestoßen werden, und die VerlorenenH6 im LandeH776 AssyrienH804 und die Vertriebenen im LandH776 ÄgyptenH4714 werden kommenH935 und JehovaH3068 anbeten auf dem heiligenH6944 BergeH2022 zu JerusalemH3389.
Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary 1 CONTINUATION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH, TWENTY-FIFTH, AND TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTERS. (
Isa 27:1-
Isa 27:13)
sore--rather, "hard," "well-tempered."
leviathan--literally, in Arabic, "the twisted animal," applicable to every great tenant of the waters, sea-serpents, crocodiles, &c. In
Ezek 29:3;
Ezek 32:2;
Dan 7:1, &c.
Rev 12:3, &c., potentates hostile to Israel are similarly described; antitypically and ultimately Satan is intended (
Rev 20:10).
piercing--rigid [LOWTH]. Flying [MAURER and Septuagint]. Long, extended, namely, as the crocodile which cannot readily bend back its body [HOUBIGANT].
crooked--winding.
dragon--Hebrew, tenin; the crocodile.
sea--the Euphrates, or the expansion of it near Babylon.
2 In that day when leviathan shall be destroyed, the vineyard (
Ps 80:8), the Church of God, purged of its blemishes, shall be lovely in God's eyes; to bring out this sense the better, LOWTH, by changing a Hebrew letter, reads "pleasant," "lovely," for "red wine."
sing--a responsive song [LOWTH].
unto her--rather, "concerning her" (see on
Isa 5:1); namely, the Jewish state [MAURER].
3 lest any hurt it--attack it [MAURER]. "Lest aught be wanting in her" [HORSLEY].
4 Fury is not in me--that is, I entertain no longer anger towards my vine.
who would set . . . in battle--that is, would that I had the briers, &c. (the wicked foe;
Isa 9:18;
Isa 10:17;
2Sam 23:6), before me! "I would go through," or rather, "against them."
5 Or--Else; the only alternative, if Israel's enemies wish to escape being "burnt together."
strength--rather, "the refuge which I afford" [MAURER]. "Take hold," refers to the horns of the altar which fugitives often laid hold of as an asylum (
1Kgs 1:50;
1Kgs 2:28). Jesus is God's "strength," or "refuge" which sinners must repair to and take hold of, if they are to have "peace" with God (
Isa 45:24;
Rom 5:1;
Eph 2:14; compare
Job 22:21).
6 He--Jehovah. Here the song of the Lord as to His vineyard (
Isa 27:2-
Isa 27:5) ends; and the prophet confirms the sentiment in the song, under the same image of a vine (compare
Ps 92:13-
Ps 92:15;
Hos 14:5-
Hos 14:6).
Israel . . . fill . . . world-- (
Rom 11:12).
7 him . . . those--Israel--Israel's enemies. Has God punished His people as severely as He has those enemies whom He employed to chastise Israel? No! Far from it. Israel, after trials, He will restore; Israel's enemies He will utterly destroy at last.
the slaughter of them that are slain by him--rather, "Is Israel slain according to the slaughter of the enemy slain?" the slaughter wherewith the enemy is slain [MAURER].
8 In measure--not beyond measure; in moderation (
Job 23:6;
Ps 6:1;
Jer 10:24;
Jer 30:11;
Jer 46:28).
when it shooteth--image from the vine; rather, passing from the image to the thing itself, "when sending her away (namely, Israel to exile;
Isa 50:1, God only putting the adulteress away when He might justly have put her to death), Thou didst punish her" [GESENIUS].
stayeth--rather, as Margin, "when He removeth it by His rough wind in the day," &c.
east wind--especially violent in the East (
Job 27:21;
Jer 18:17).
9 By this--exile of Israel (the "sending away,"
Isa 27:8).
purged--expiated [HORSLEY].
all the fruit--This is the whole benefit designed to be brought about by the chastisement; namely, the removal of his (Israel's) sin (namely, object of idolatry;
Deut 9:21;
Hos 10:8).
when he--Jehovah; at the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, His instrument. The Jews ever since have abhorred idolatry (compare
Isa 17:8).
not stand up--shall rise no more [HORSLEY].
10 city--Jerusalem; the beating asunder of whose altars and images was mentioned in
Isa 27:9 (compare
Isa 24:10-
Isa 24:12).
calf feed-- (
Isa 17:2); it shall be a vast wild pasture.
branches--resuming the image of the vine (
Isa 27:2,
Isa 27:6).
11 boughs . . . broken off--so the Jews are called (
Rom 11:17,
Rom 11:19-
Rom 11:20).
set . . . on fire--burn them as fuel; "women" are specified, as probably it was their office to collect fuel and kindle the fire for cooking.
no understanding--as to the ways of God (
Deut 32:28-
Deut 32:29;
Jer 5:21;
Hos 4:6).
12 Restoration of the Jews from their dispersion, described under the image of fruits shaken from trees and collected.
beat off--as fruit beaten off a tree with a stick (
Deut 24:20), and then gathered.
river--Euphrates.
stream of Egypt--on the confines of Palestine and Egypt (
Num 34:5;
Josh 15:4,
Josh 15:47), now Wady-el-Arish, Jehovah's vineyard, Israel, extended according to His purpose from the Nile to the Euphrates (
1Kgs 4:21,
1Kgs 4:24;
Ps 72:8).
one by one--gathered most carefully, not merely as a nation, but as individuals.
13 great trumpet--image from the trumpets blown on the first day of the seventh month to summon the people to a holy convocation (
Lev 23:24). Antitypically, the gospel trumpet (
Rev 11:15;
Rev 14:6) which the Jews shall hearken to in the last days (
Zech 12:10;
Zech 13:1). As the passover in the first month answers to Christ's crucifixion, so the day of atonement and the idea of "salvation" connected with the feast of tabernacles in the same seventh month, answer to the crowning of "redemption" at His second coming; therefore redemption is put last in
1Cor 1:30.
Assyria--whither the ten tribes had been carried; Babylonia is mainly meant, to which Assyria at that time belonged; the two tribes were restored, and some of the ten accompanied them. However, "Assyria" is designedly used to point ultimately to the future restoration of the ten fully, never yet accomplished (
Jer 3:18).
Egypt--whither many had fled at the Babylonish captivity (
Jer 41:17-
Jer 41:18). Compare as to the future restoration,
Isa 11:11-
Isa 11:12,
Isa 11:16;
Isa 51:9-
Isa 51:16 ("Rahab" being Egypt).
The twenty-eighth through thirty-third chapters form almost one continuous prophecy concerning the destruction of Ephraim, the impiety and folly of Judah, the danger of their league with Egypt, the straits they would be reduced to by Assyria, from which Jehovah would deliver them on their turning to Him; the twenty-eighth chapter refers to the time just before the sixth year of Hezekiak's reign, the rest not very long before his fourteenth year.