Isaiah 27:9

Isaiah 27:9

7 ^aHas He struck¹ Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?

8 ^aIn measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
^bHe removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.

9 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,
¹Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

10 Yet the fortified city will be ^adesolate,
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 ^ait is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will ^bnot have mercy on them,
And ^cHe 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 of¹ the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be ^agathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.

13 ^aSo it shall be in that day:
^bThe 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 ^cEgypt,
And shall ^dworship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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By this - By this manner of God's dealing with them. When - Which sin of Jacob's shall be purged, when he shall truly repent of all his sins, and especially of his idolatry. Altar - Their idolatrous altars. Possibly he may say the altar, with respect to that particular altar, which Ahaz had set upon the place of God's own altar; and this prophecy might be delivered in Ahaz's time, while that altar stood. Chalk - stones - When he shall break all those goodly altars in pieces. Not stand - Shall be thrown down with contempt.

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