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ISAIAH 28
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For your life-giving light will fall
like dew
on your people in the place of
the dead!
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Restoration for Israel
20 Go home, my people,
and lock your doors!
Hide yourselves for a little while
until the Lord’s anger has passed.
21 Look! The Lord is coming from heaven
to punish the people of the earth for
their sins.
The earth will no longer hide those who
have been killed.
They will be brought out for all to see.
— promises —
from God
You will keep in perfect
peace all who trust in you.
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In that day the Lord will take his terrible,
swift sword and punish Leviathan,* the
swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing
serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
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“In that day,
sing about the fruitful vineyard.
I, the Lord, will watch over it,
watering it carefully.
Day and night I will watch so no one
can harm it.
My anger will be gone.
If I find briers and thorns growing,
I will attack them;
I will burn them up—
unless they turn to me for help.
Let them make peace with me;
yes, let them make peace with me.”
The time is coming when Jacob’s
descendants will take root.
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole earth with fruit!
Has the Lord struck Israel
as he struck her enemies?
Has he punished her
as he punished them?
No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
She was exiled from her land
as though blown away in a storm from
the east.
The Lord did this to purge Israel’s*
wickedness,
to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be
crushed to dust.
No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be
left standing.
The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
27:1 The identification of Leviathan is disputed, ranging
from an earthly creature to a mythical sea monster in
ancient literature. 27:9 Hebrew Jacob’s. See note on 14:1.
27:12 Hebrew the river. 28:1 Hebrew What sorrow awaits the
crowning glory of the drunks of Ephraim, referring to Samaria,
capital of the northern kingdom of Israel. 28:3 Hebrew The
crowning glory of the drunks of Ephraim; see note on 28:1.
the houses abandoned, the streets
overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
chewing on twigs and branches.
The people are like the dead branches of
a tree,
broken off and used for kindling beneath
the cooking pots.
Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
for its people have turned away from God.
Therefore, the one who made them
will show them no pity or mercy.
I SA I A H 2 6:3
12 Yet the time will come when the Lord will
gather them together like handpicked grain.
One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River* in the east to the Brook of Egypt
in the west. 13 In that day the great trumpet will
sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria
and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship
the Lord on his holy mountain.
A Message about Samaria
1 What sorrow awaits the proud city of
Samaria—
the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel.*
It sits at the head of a fertile valley,
but its glorious beauty will fade like a
flower.
It is the pride of a people
brought down by wine.
2 For the Lord will send a mighty army
against it.
Like a mighty hailstorm and a torrential
rain,
they will burst upon it like a surging flood
and smash it to the ground.
3 The proud city of Samaria—
the glorious crown of the drunks of Israel*—
will be trampled beneath its enemies’
feet.
4 It sits at the head of a fertile valley,
but its glorious beauty will fade like
a flower.
Whoever sees it will snatch it up,
as an early fig is quickly picked and
eaten.
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Then at last the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will himself be Israel’s glorious crown.
He will be the pride and joy
of the remnant of his people.