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Ililigtas ang Israel

27 Sa(A) araw na iyon, gagamitin ni Yahweh
    ang kanyang malupit at matalim na espada;
paparusahan niya ang Leviatan,[a] ang tumatakas na dragon,
    at papatayin niya ang halimaw na nakatira sa dagat.
Sa araw na iyon,
sasabihin niya sa kanyang mainam na ubasan,
    “Akong si Yahweh ang nag-aalaga ng ubasang ito
    na dinidilig bawat sandali,
at binabantayan ko araw at gabi
    upang walang manira.
    Hindi na ako galit sa aking ubasan,
ngunit sa sandaling may makita akong mga tinik,
    ang mga ito'y titipunin ko
    at saka susunugin.
Ngunit kung nais nilang sila'y aking ingatan,
    ang dapat nilang gawin, makipagkasundo sa akin.
Darating ang araw na mag-uugat ang lahi ni Jacob,
    mamumulaklak ang Israel, magbubunga ng marami
    at mapupuno ang buong daigdig.
Pinarusahan ba ng Diyos ang Israel gaya ng ginawa sa mga kaaway nito?
    Pinatay ba niya ang mga Israelita tulad ng ginawa sa pumaslang sa kanila?
Hinayaan ni Yahweh na mabihag ang kanyang bayan bilang parusa;
    tinangay sila ng malakas na hangin buhat sa silangan.
Patatawarin lang sila kung wawasakin nila ang mga altar
    at itatapon ang larawan ng diyus-diyosang si Ashera,
    at dudurugin ang altar na sunugan ng insenso.
10 Wasak na ang lunsod na siyang tanggulan,
    para itong disyerto na walang nakatira,
at ginawang pastulan na lamang ng mga baka.
11 Nabali at natuyo ang mga sanga ng punongkahoy,
    pupulutin naman ng mga babae at gagawing panggatong.
Sapagkat ang bayang ito'y walang pagkaunawa,
    kaya hindi sila kahahabagan ng Diyos na kanilang Manlilikha.

12 Sa araw na iyon ay titipunin ni Yahweh,
ang mga Israelita gaya ng inaning trigo;
mula sa Ilog Eufrates hanggang sa hangganan ng Egipto.
13 Pagtunog ng trumpeta, tatawagin pabalik sa Jerusalem,
ang mga Israelitang nangalat sa Asiria at Egipto
upang sambahin nila si Yahweh sa banal na bundok sa Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. 1 LEVIATAN: Isang mala-alamat na dambuhalang halimaw sa karagatan na sumisimbolo sa kaguluhan at kasamaan.

Israel Will Be Restored

27 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
(A)Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay (B)the reptile that is in the sea.

The Restoration of Israel

In that day (C)sing to her,
(D)“A vineyard of [a]red wine!
(E)I, the Lord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.
Fury is not in Me.
Who would set (F)briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
Or let him take hold (G)of My strength,
That he may (H)make peace with Me;
And he shall make peace with Me.”

Those who come He shall cause (I)to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.

(J)Has He struck [b]Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
(K)In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
(L)He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
[c]Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

10 Yet the fortified city will be (M)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (N)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (O)not have mercy on them,
And (P)He who formed them will show them no favor.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of [d]the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be (Q)gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.

13 (R)So it shall be in that day:
(S)The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of (T)Egypt,
And shall (U)worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:2 So with MT (Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica), Bg., Vg.; MT (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), some Heb. mss., LXX delight; Tg. choice vineyard
  2. Isaiah 27:7 Lit. him
  3. Isaiah 27:9 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
  4. Isaiah 27:12 The Euphrates

The Redemption of Israel

27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong (A)sword will punish (B)Leviathan the fleeing serpent, (C)Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay (D)the dragon that is in the sea.

In that day,
(E)“A pleasant vineyard,[a] (F)sing of it!
    I, the Lord, am its keeper;
    every moment I water it.
    Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
    I have no wrath.
(G)Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
    I would march against them,
    I would burn them up together.
Or let them lay hold of my protection,
    let them make peace with me,
    let them make peace with me.”

(H)In days to come[b] Jacob shall take root,
    Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
    and fill the whole world with fruit.

(I)Has he struck them (J)as he struck those who struck them?
    Or have they been slain (K)as their slayers were slain?
(L)Measure by measure,[c] by exile you contended with them;
    (M)he removed them with his fierce breath[d] in the day of the east wind.
Therefore by this (N)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[e]
(O)when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
    no (P)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10 (Q)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.
(R)For 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 (S)from the river Euphrates[f] 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 (T)a great trumpet will be blown, (U)and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt (V)will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine
  2. Isaiah 27:6 Hebrew In those to come
  3. Isaiah 27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  4. Isaiah 27:8 Or wind
  5. Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin
  6. Isaiah 27:12 Hebrew from the River

27 (A) On that day, Leviathan,[a]
    the sea monster,
will squirm and try to escape,
but the Lord will kill him
    with a cruel, sharp sword.

Protection and Forgiveness

The Lord said:

At that time you must sing
    about a fruitful[b] vineyard.
I, the Lord, will protect it
    and always keep it watered.
I will guard it day and night
    to keep it from harm.
I am no longer angry.
    But if it produces thorns,
I will go to war against it
    and burn it to the ground.
Yet if the vineyard depends
    on me for protection,
it will become my friend
    and be at peace with me.

Someday Israel will take root
    like a vine.
It will blossom and bear fruit
    that covers the earth.

I, the Lord, didn't punish and kill
    the people of Israel
as fiercely as I punished
    and killed their enemies.
I carefully measured out
    Israel's punishment[c]
and sent the scorching heat
    to chase them far away.

There's only one way
that Israel's sin and guilt
    can be completely forgiven:
They must crush the stones
of every pagan altar
    and place of worship.

The Lord Will Bring His People Together

10 Fortress cities are left
like a desert
    where no one lives.
Cattle walk through the ruins,
    stripping the trees bare.
11 When broken branches
    fall to the ground,
women pick them up
    to feed the fire.
But these people are so stupid
that the God who created them
    will show them no mercy.

12 The time is coming when the Lord will shake the land between the Euphrates River and the border of Egypt, and one by one he will bring all of his people together. 13 A loud trumpet will be heard. Then the people of Israel who were dragged away to Assyria and Egypt will return to worship the Lord on his holy mountain in Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. 27.1 Leviathan: God's victory over this monster sometimes stands for God's power over all creation and sometimes for his defeat of his enemies, especially Egypt.
  2. 27.2 fruitful: Some Hebrew manuscripts have “lovely.”
  3. 27.8 I … punishment: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.