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Morning on a hillside vineyard in full leaf: heavy green vines on stone terraces, a stone watchtower, a small water channel running between the rows.

The whole earth

Isaiah 27

God sings over a vineyard He waters night and day. What if He sings over you?

13 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

  1. 1–5Zion on trialJudah’s sin, the mountain raised, the vineyard’s song
  2. 6Holy, holy, holyIsaiah’s call, in the year King Uzziah died (about 740 BC)
  3. 7–12ImmanuelAhaz’s fear, the sign, the Child, the shoot of Jesse
  4. 13–23The nations judgedBabylon to Tyre: the LORD is Judge of all the earth
  5. 24–27The whole earthThe earth laid waste, and death swallowed upChapter 27
  6. 28–35Woe and a KingEgypt’s help or the LORD’s, and the King in His beauty
  7. 36–39Hezekiah’s crisisSennacherib, 701 BC: the prayer, the sickness, the envoys
  8. 40–48Comfort My peopleTo the exiles ahead: Cyrus, the idols, the Servant
  9. 49–55The Servant and ZionPierced for our transgressions; Zion restored
  10. 56–66New heavens and earthA house of prayer, the Anointed One, all things new

The LORD’s Vineyard

Isaiah
Night over a heaving black sea under low storm clouds: a long dark wake running across the swell as if something vast has fled beneath the surface; no creature seen.

In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

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God

In that day:

“Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

God
God

I, the LORD, am its keeper;

I water it continually.

I guard it night and day

so no one can disturb it;

God

I am not angry.

If only thorns and briers confronted Me,

I would march and trample them,

I would burn them to the ground.

God

Or let them lay claim to My protection;

let them make peace with Me—

yes, let them make peace with Me.”

Isaiah

In the days to come, Jacob will take root.

Israel will bud and blossom

and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 27:6

Question

Quick question

Isaiah sang a vineyard song once before, in chapter 5, and it ended in ruin. Listen to how the LORD sings this one.

What does the LORD say He does for His vineyard?

Isaiah

Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors?

Was she killed like those who slayed her?

Isaiah
Isaiah

By warfare and exile You contended with her

and removed her with a fierce wind,

as on the day the east wind blows.

Isaiah
Morning on a hilltop shrine: the stones of a pagan altar smashed to white chalky fragments scattered over the ground, the stump of a cut-down wooden pole and a broken small incense altar beside them.

Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for,

and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this:

When he makes all the altar stones

like crushed bits of chalk,

no Asherah poles or incense altars

will remain standing.

Isaiah
Isaiah

For the fortified city lies deserted—

a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken.

There the calves graze, and there they lie down;

they strip its branches bare.

Isaiah

When its limbs are dry,

they are broken off.

Women come and use them for kindling;

for this is a people without understanding.

Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them,

and their Creator shows them no favor.

Isaiah

In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.

Isaiah
Dawn on the flat walkway of Jerusalem’s wall: a long curved ram’s horn resting on the stones, and far below a road winding in from the hills with small groups of travelers coming home.

And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

Pray

Pray

LORD, keeper of the vineyard, water me continually and guard me night and day. I make peace with You. Gather Your people one by one, and bring us home to worship You on Your holy mountain. Amen.

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In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 27:6

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