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Isaiah 27:3

I, the Lord, do keep it, as the almighty Watchman; I will water it every moment, thus combining watchful with loving care; lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day, so that no enemy may attack and harm it.

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See also Isaiah 27:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 27:3. _LEST ANY HURT IT, I WILL KEEP IT NIGHT AND DAY_ - "I will take care of her by night; and by day I will keep guard over her"] For פן יפקד _pen yiphkod, lest any visit it_, the _Syr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I THE LORD DO KEEP IT - There is understood here or implied an introduction; as ‘Yahweh said’ (compare Psalms 121:3). I WILL WATER IT EVERY MOMENT - That is, constantly, as a vinedresser does his vin...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 27 ISRAEL'S ENEMIES OVERTHROWN AND THE GREAT RESTORATION 1. _Assyria, Babylon and Egypt punished (Isaiah 27:1)_ 2. _What Jehovah has done and will do (Isaiah 27:2)_ 3. The vineyard established...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH'S CHERISHED VINEYARD. Here another song is inserted. The text and meaning are alike most uncertain, but apparently the general thought is that Israel is Yahweh's pleasant vineyard (_mg.),_ tend...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _do keep it_ Better: AM ITS KEEPER. For _I will water … I will keep_, substitute I WATER … I KEEP....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The song of the vineyard, the counterpart of ch. Isaiah 5:1 ff. This peculiar and perplexing passage has little relation to the context. It seems to fall into two stanzas; the first (Isaiah 27:2 a) ex...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 897 GOD’S CARE FOR HIS CHURCH Isaiah 27:3. _I the Lord do keep it: I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day._ GOD has provided abundant consolation for...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    I THE LORD DO KEEP IT— We have in these verses a fine testimony of the divine grace and clemency towards the church, of God's constant care and continued affection to it. This elegant period contains...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. JOINING OF JUDAH AND GENTILES, CHAPTER 27 1. JOINED BY DIVINE PROTECTION TEXT: Isaiah 27:1-6 1 In that day Jehovah with this hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpe...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. LEST ANY HURT IT - Hebrew, 'lest, haply, any visit upon it' (cf. )....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    27:3 harm (k-13) Lit. 'punish,' 'visit,' as ver. 1....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. The powers hostile to God's people are here symbolically represented as monsters. LEVIATHAN THE PIERCING (RV 'swift') SERPENT perhaps stands for Assyria, watered by the rapid Tigris, and 'leviathan...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 27 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST LEVIATHAN V1 On that day, the *Lord will seize his powerf...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These verses return to the story about the *vineyard (see Isaiah 5:1-7)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    As in chapter 5, the ‘*vineyard’ means God’s special people (see Isaiah 5:7). The *vineyard receives the *Lord’s constant care (see Isaiah 5:2)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I THE LORD DO KEEP it. — The words imply a distinct reversal of the sentence passed in Isaiah 5:1. Instead of abandonment, there is constant care. Instead of the clouds being commanded to give no rain...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ נֹֽצְרָ֔הּ לִ רְגָעִ֖ים אַשְׁקֶ֑נָּה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXIX GOD'S POOR DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1 WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S CARE FOR HIS VINEYARD Isaiah 27:1-13 Throughout these Chapter s we must remember that the doom of Babylon and the restoration of God's people are symbolical of other events, for which the world...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This circle of prophecy ends with a message which describes the process toward ultimate restoration, and announces its certainty. The way to restoration is the way of judgment, and this the prophet fi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Drink; or, as the Hebrew may also be rendered, I will continually water it. (Challoner) --- God will protect his people. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    In the opening of this chapter, the Prophet begins it, if not in the same words, yet at least to the same amount, as the Psalmist doth one of his Psalms, when he saith, I will sing of mercy and judgme...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._I Jehovah keep it. _Here the Lord asserts his care and diligence in dressing and guarding the vine, as if he had said, that he left nothing undone that belonged to the duty of a provident and indus...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Finally, Jehovah invites His people to hide themselves a little moment, while He comes out of His place to execute vengeance (chap. 27). The power of Satan in this world and among men shall be destroy...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I THE LORD DO KEEP IT,.... The vineyard, the church, not only by his ministers, called the keepers of it, Song of Solomon 8:12 but by himself, by his own power; for unless he keeps it, who is Israel's...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day. Ver. 3. _I the Lord do keep it._] And then it cannot but be well kept. The matter is well amende...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _In that day_ When these powerful enemies shall be destroyed. _Sing ye unto her_ Hebrew, ענו לה, _answer ye her_, or _say ye to her_, namely, to the church of God. _A vineyard of red wine_ “Behold _a...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 The Lord Jesus with his strong sword, the virtue of his death, and the preaching of his gospel, does and will destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, that old serpent. The wo...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I THE LORD DO KEEP IT; I will secure it, that neither men, nor beasts, nor drought shall spoil it; which alone are the things that can hurt it. I will protect my church from all the assaults of her en...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 27:3 LORD H3068 keep H5341 (H8802) water H8248 (H8686) moment H7281 hurt H6485 (H8799) keep...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S FIERCE PROTECTION OF HIS PEOPLE SEEN AS A VINEYARD (ISAIAH 27:2). In contrast to that mighty Serpent are the afflicted people of God, and with such an Enemy they certainly need special protectio...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, That is to say, he will punish those who are like leviathan; the proudest, the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Punishment of the proud enemy of God's people. Israel restored and fruitful. CHARACTERS: God, serpent, dragon. CONCLUSION: When the Lord comes to punish the inhabitants of the earth, He wil...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 27:1. _In that day the Lord shall punish leviathan._ It would seem that the Assyrian and Chaldean empire are here intended. See on Job 41:1; Amos 9:13. The desolations mentioned in the tenth ve...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I, the Lord, do keep it_ THE LORD THE KEEPER OF HIS PEOPLE There is nothing to which we are naturally more prone, nothing more dangerous, nothing so difficult to eradicate as self-confidence. And...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A vineyard of red wine_ THE CHURCH A VINEYARD OF RED WINE The Church of God is here compared to a vineyard. The vine is a tender plant, needing continual care; and if the vineyard is not well fence...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 27:3 EVERY MOMENT I WATER IT. Contrast “I will also command... no rain” in Isaiah 5:6....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    GOD’S GOODNESS TO THE CHURCH Isaiah 27:2. _In that day sing ye unto her_, &c. [1084] [1084] _Cowles_ only follows _Alexander_ in the rendering of these verses. _Birks_ translates: “In that day sing y...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 27:1 THE TRIPLE JUDGMENT ON THE POWERS OF DARKNESS. The crowning judgment of all is now briefly described. "In that day"—the day of God's vengeance—when all his other enemies have b...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 27: In that day (Isaiah 27:1) Now what day? In the day in which God is bringing the Great Tribulation upon the earth. In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall pun...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 2:9; Deuteronomy 33:26; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:24;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I keep it — I will protect my church from all her enemies, and supply her with all necessary provisions....

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