The Redemption of Israel
1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong [Jer. 47:6] sword will punish Ps. 74:14Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Ps. 74:14Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay ch. 51:9;Ezek. 29:3the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day,
ch. 5:7"A pleasant vineyard,27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine[ch. 26:1]sing of it!
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
4 I have no wrath.
[ch. 10:17]Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me."
6 ch. 37:31;Hos. 14:5,6In days to come27:6 Hebrew In those to come Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Hos. 6:1,2Has he struck them See ch. 37:36-38as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain ch. 37:18,19as their slayers were slain?
8 [Jer. 10:24] Measure by measure,27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain by exile you contended with them;
[Jer. 18:17]he removed them with his fierce breath27:8 Or wind in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this [ch. 22:14] the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
[2 Kgs. 18:4] when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no See Deut. 16:21Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10 ch. 17:9;32:14,19;[Hos. 8:14;Mic. 5:11]For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
Deut. 32:28;See ch. 30:16-18For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 In that day See Gen. 15:18from the river Euphrates27:12 Hebrew from the River to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 13 And in that day Lev. 25:9;[Matt. 24:31;Rev. 11:15] a great trumpet will be blown, ch. 11:11,16;Mic. 7:12and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt [ch. 2:2]will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.