1An jenem Tag, da sucht der Ewge heim mit seinem Schwert, dem harten, großen, starken den Liwjatan, die Schlange, die sich strafft und Liwjatan, die Schlange, die sich krümmt und er erschlägt das Ungeheuer in der See 2an jenem Tag. Des Gärweins Garten, singt ihm zu. 3Ich war, der Ewige, sein Hüter ich tränkte alleweile ihn daß ja sein Laub nichts misse ich hütete ihn Nacht und Tag. 4Zorn hatt ich nicht. Wer macht' ihn mir verhegt, verlegt! Im Kampf drauf ging ich gegen sie verbrenn sie mitsammen. 5Wie? Hielt er meine Wehr? Schüf Heil mir? Heil schafft er mir 6daß Blütenpflanzen Jaakob wurzeln macht voll wird der Frucht des Festlands Fläche. 7Hat er geschlagen, wie sein Schläger schlug? Ward da gemordet, wie man ihm Gemordete ermordet? Wie bei der Mispel wenn sie sich breitet so solln sie sich verranken! 8Er raunt in seinem rauhen Sturm am Tag des Ostwinds: 9Drum sei dadurch gesühnet Jaakobs Schuld das sei die ganze Frucht der Tilgung seiner Sünde: daß es die Altarsteine alle macht wie zerschlagnes Kalkgestein daß nicht bestehn Weihbäume, Sonnensäulen. 10Denn feste Stadt ist einsam Flur preisgegeben verlassen wie die Wüste; dort grast das Kalb dort lagert es frißt weg ihre Zweige. 11Ist dürr ihr Laub so werden sie gebrochen; die Frauen kommen sie heizen Brand damit. Denn nicht ein Volk von Einsicht ist es; darum erbarmt sich seiner nicht sein Schöpfer sein Bildner schenkt ihm keine Gnade. 12Und es wird sein an jenem Tag: da klopft der Ewge aus von des Stromes Ähre bis zum Bach Mizraims; und ihr, ihr werdet aufgesammelt eins zu einem ihr Kinder Jisraël. 13Und es wird sein an jenem Tag da wird man stoßen in gewaltges Horn da kommen die in Aschschurs Land Verlornen und die Verstoßenen im Land Mizraim und werfen hin sich vor dem Ewigen auf heilgem Berge, in Jeruschalaim.
Jamieson Fausset Brown Bible Commentary 1 CONTINUATION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH, TWENTY-FIFTH, AND TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTERS. (
Jes 27:1-
Jes 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
Hes 29:3;
Hes 32:2;
Dan 7:1, &c.
Off 12:3, &c., potentates hostile to Israel are similarly described; antitypically and ultimately Satan is intended (
Off 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
Jes 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;
Jes 9:18;
Jes 10:17;
2.Sam 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 (
1.Kön 1:50;
1.Kön 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 (
Jes 45:24;
Röm 5:1;
Eph 2:14; compare
Hi 22:21).
6 He--Jehovah. Here the song of the Lord as to His vineyard (
Jes 27:2-
Jes 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-- (
Röm 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 (
Hi 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;
Jes 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 (
Hi 27:21;
Jer 18:17).
9 By this--exile of Israel (the "sending away,"
Jes 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;
5.Mo 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
Jes 17:8).
not stand up--shall rise no more [HORSLEY].
10 city--Jerusalem; the beating asunder of whose altars and images was mentioned in
Jes 27:9 (compare
Jes 24:10-
Jes 24:12).
calf feed-- (
Jes 17:2); it shall be a vast wild pasture.
branches--resuming the image of the vine (
Jes 27:2,
Jes 27:6).
11 boughs . . . broken off--so the Jews are called (
Röm 11:17,
Röm 11:19-
Röm 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 (
5.Mo 32:28-
5.Mo 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 (
5.Mo 24:20), and then gathered.
river--Euphrates.
stream of Egypt--on the confines of Palestine and Egypt (
4.Mo 34:5;
Jos 15:4,
Jos 15:47), now Wady-el-Arish, Jehovah's vineyard, Israel, extended according to His purpose from the Nile to the Euphrates (
1.Kön 4:21,
1.Kön 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 (
3.Mo 23:24). Antitypically, the gospel trumpet (
Off 11:15;
Off 14:6) which the Jews shall hearken to in the last days (
Sach 12:10;
Sach 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
1.Kor 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,
Jes 11:11-
Jes 11:12,
Jes 11:16;
Jes 51:9-
Jes 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.