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Isaiah 27:9

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 27:9 Therefore by this. Through loving restraint, God will bring his people to idol-free purity before him.

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See also Isaiah 27:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 27:9. _THE GROVES _- "And if the groves"] ולא _velo_. _Four_ MSS., _two_ ancient, of _Kennicott's_, and _one_ ancient of my own, with the _Septuagint_; this makes a fuller sense....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BY THIS - This verse states the whole design of the punishment of the Jews. They were taken away from their temple, their city, and their land; they were removed from the groves and altars of idolatry...

  • 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

    ISRAEL'S GENTLE CHASTISEMENT AND THE TERMS ON WHICH IT MAY BE PARDONED. This is an insertion out of connexion with the context, and it does not itself hang well together. The writer asks, Has Yahweh p...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BY THIS. In this way. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah_. App-44. PURGED. covered: i.e. atoned for. Hebrew. _kaphar_. See note on Exodus 29:33. THIS IS ALL THE FRUIT. all this is the fruit or result. SIN. H...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A summons to national repentance and reformation. Has Israel suffered the extremity of Divine punishment as its oppressors have done (7)? There is a ground of hope in the moderation displayed by Jehov...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The condition of restoration and forgiveness. _Therefore_points back to the idea of Isaiah 27:7 the moderation of Israel's punishment, while _By this_, i.e. ("on this condition") points forward to the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BY THIS THEREFORE, &C.— By _this,_ &c.—_And this shall be all the fruit of removing his sin, that he make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones beaten asunder,_ &c. Isaiah 27:10 _because the defe...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. JOINED BY DIVINE PURGING TEXT: Isaiah 27:7-13 7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? 8 In measu...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the grove...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The sense is that Israel's sin will be purged on condition that it rejects all idolatry. THE FRUIT] RV 'the fruit of taking away': i.e. the result or proof of contrition required as a condition of tak...

  • 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

    God explains why he holds back complete punishment of his people. He will completely forgive them. But only when they remove all evidence of false *worship from their land. LIFE WITHOUT PURPOSE V10...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BY THIS THEREFORE SHALL THE INIQUITY OF JACOB BE PURGED. — The pronoun may refer either to the chastisement of the previous verse as the instrument of purification (preferably), or to the destruction...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֗ן בְּ זֹאת֙ יְכֻפַּ֣ר עֲוֹֽן ־יַעֲקֹ֔ב ו

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the (i) fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten asunder, the id...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Jacob; viz., of such of them as shall be converted. (Challoner) --- Altar, dedicated to idols: then he shall obtain pardon. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All these are so many different expressions, to intimate that the Lord's mercy to his people is all of grace, and not for their deserts. The Lord watcheth over them for good; but it is for the exaltat...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Therefore in this manner shall the iniquity of Jacob be expiated. _After having spoken of the chastisement of the people, he begins to state more clearly that the Lord promotes the interests of his...

  • 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

    BY THIS THEREFORE SHALL THE INIQUITY OF JACOB BE PURGED,.... Or "expiated", or "atoned" a; not that afflictions are atonements for sin, or give satisfaction to divine justice for it; but they are the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the gro...

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

    _By this therefore_ By this manner of God's dealing with his people; _shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged_ Hebrew, יכפר, _expiated_, or forgiven: that is, by these chastisements Jacob shall be broug...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    By this, therefore, by the punishment of the exile, SHALL THE INIQUITY OF JACOB BE PURGED, his guilt expiated, purification brought about; AND THIS IS ALL THE FRUIT TO TAKE AWAY HIS SIN, the punishmen...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GATHERING OF THE CHURCH...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IMAGES: Or, sun images...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-13 In the days of the gospel, the latter days, the gospel church shall be more firmly fixed than the Jewish church, and shall spread further. May our souls be continually watered and kept, that we...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By this, by this manner of God's dealing with his people, therefore, that the difference between Jacob and his enemies in their several sufferings may appear, SHALL THE INIQUITY OF JACOB BE PURGED, He...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 27:9 this H2063 iniquity H5771 Jacob H3290 covered H3722 (H8792) fruit H6529 away H5493 (H8687) sin...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH HAS HAD COMPASSION ON HIS PEOPLE, FOR EVEN IN THE PAST HE HAS NOT TREATED ISRAEL AS BADLY AS THEY DESERVED (ISAIAH 27:7). Yahweh has not smitten His people as severely as He has smitten others,...

  • 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

    _By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged_ GOD’S END IN SENDING CALAMITIES AND AFFLICTIONS ON HIS PEOPLE Motives to enforce this duty of complying with the Lord’s end, in afflicting a...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE AFFLICTIONS OF GOD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 27:7. _Hath He smitten him as He smote his smiter, or was he slain as his slayers were slain? In exact measure, when dismissing her, Thou didst contend with her;...

  • 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 Corinthians 11:32; 2 Chronicles 14:5; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Chronicles 36:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 a...

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