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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 27:5

Or let him take hold of my strength. — Or, Let him lay hold on my fortress: let him make peace with Me. The thought implied is that even the enemies of Jehovah, if repentant, may find in Him “their castle and deliverer.” To them, too, there is the gracious invitation to make peace.

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See also Isaiah 27:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 27:5. _OR _- "Ah"] For או _o_ I read אוי _oi_, as it was at first in a MS. The י _yod_ was easily lost, being followed by another י _yod_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    OR LET HIM - The Hebrew word rendered here or (או _'ô_) means “unless;” and the sense is, the enemies of the Jewish people shall be completely destroyed as briers are by fire, “unless” they flee to G...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OR: i.e. if such enemies wish to avert My wrath, let them make peace with Me. MY STRENGTH. Me, as. refuge or protection....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Or let him take hold, &c._ ELSE MUST HE TAKE HOLD OF MY STRENGTH: lit. "my stronghold" or asylum: cf. 1 Kings 1:50; 1 Kings 2:28. The figure is relinquished; the idea expressed being that uncondition...

  • 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...

  • 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

    Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. OR - Else; the only alternative if Israel's enemies wish to escape being 'burnt together.' LE...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    27:5 make (l-18) Or 'he made.'...

  • 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

    A gracious overture even to God's enemies....

  • 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

    Unlike in 5:5-6, the *Lord is not angry at the *vineyard. But he will destroy any ‘*thorn-bushes or weeds’, that is, the enemies of his people. Although God will forgive even those enemies, if they si...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹ֚ו יַחֲזֵ֣ק בְּ מָעוּזִּ֔י יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה שָׁלֹ֖ום...

  • 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

    Or let him (e) take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me. (e) He marvels that Israel will not come by gentleness, unless God make them to feel his...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I place this verse alone, in order that the Reader may consider it somewhat more particularly. It is Jehovah the Father who is here speaking, and therefore it may be supposed that he is speaking, in t...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._Will she take hold of my strength? _ או (ō,) is frequently a disjunctive conjunction, (196) and therefore this passage is explained as if the particle had been twice used, “_Either _let her take ho...

  • 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

    OR LET HIM TAKE HOLD OF MY STRENGTH,.... Not on the law, as the Targum and Kimchi; but on Christ, as Jerom rightly interprets it; who is the strength and power of God, the man of his right hand he has...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me. Ver. 5. _Or let him take hold of my strength,_] _i.e., _ Of mine arm, wherewith I am about to...

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

    _Fury is not in me_ Namely, against my vineyard or my people; I have been displeased with them, and have chastized them, but I am not implacable toward them, and resolved utterly to destroy them, as t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Or let him take hold of My strength, let him make his peace with God, the only alternative by which the wicked may escape the threatened punishment, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make p...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DOWNFALL OF THE WORLDLY POWERS...

  • 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

    OR, or if at any time fury be, or seem to be, in me against my vineyard or people, LET HIM, my people, as is clearly implied from the following words; _for there is no peace_ to those who are not God'...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 27:5 hold H2388 (H8686) strength H4581 make H6213 (H8799) peace H7965 make H6213 (H8799) peace...

  • 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

    _Let him take hold of My strength_ TAKING HOLD OF THE DIVINE STRENGTH I. THE INVITATION. “Let him take hold of My strength.” This becomes an imperative duty--a duty universal in its application. II...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Fury is not in Me._ --Of all the senses put upon this difficult verse there are only two which can be looked upon as natural or probable. The first may be paraphrased as follows:--It is not because...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A SOLEMN DISCLAIMER Isaiah 27:4. _Fury is not in me_, &c. The figurative language in Isaiah 27:1 sets forth some powerful and terrible enemies of Israel—cruel, crafty, and bloodthirsty oppressors. Bu...

  • 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

    2 Corinthians 5:19; Colossians 1:20; Colossians 1:21; Ephesians 2:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Or — Or if at any time fury seem to be in me against my people. Let him — My people. Take hold — Which he may by humble prayer not only restrain from doing him hurt, but engage to do him good....

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