Isaiah 27

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:2

"In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it. I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together. Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me. In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:7

"Hath he smitten them as he smote them that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?"Such questions in Hebrew require negative answers; and this verse means that God's punishments have not been as severe as they might have been. Proof of this is seen in the fact that, whereas, Sodom and Gomorrah were utterly destroyed from the face of the earth for their wickedness; Israel which became `worse than Sodom and Gomorrah' (Ezekiel 16:47), was dealt... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:8

"In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind."This verse is ambiguous. Cheyne stated that `in measure' here or `in exact measure' means, "dealing out punishment in carefully adjusted quantities";[13] The Hebrew word used for dry measure here is "`[~seah],' meaning one-third of an ephah."[14] This surely reminds us of the judgments connected with the trumpets in Revelation 8:7,8,10, where we read that... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:9

"Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more."The mention of "forgiveness" in this passage is a positive indication that the era of the New Covenant is spoken of, and not the history of pre-Christian Israel. There was no forgiveness whatever under the old covenant. For this reason, the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:10

"For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof."This is once more a reference to that time-period mentioned in Revelation 16:9, near the close of the dispensation of the grace of God, when the "cities of the nations" shall fall. This will occur at a time when Adam's race shall almost have run its course, and when, due to rampant wickedness, God will have no moral... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:11

"When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor."This is once more a picture of the judgment of mankind at the last day. It is incorrect to limit this to racial Israel, because racial Israel is not to be destroyed in the total sense until the final reckoning and destruction of all of... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:12

"And it will come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem."There are a number of things that positively... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 27

CHAP. XXVII. The care of God over his vineyard: his chastisements differ from judgments. The church of Jews and Gentiles. Before Christ 715. The latter part of the first discourse is contained in this chapter, wherein the prophet declares two great future events; the first is the destruction of the enemies of the church; Isa 27:1 the second the state of the delivered church, various attributes whereof are enumerated in order; as, first, its establishment in a state of purity, Isaiah 27:2.;... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 27:1

Isaiah 27:1. In that day, &c.— In that day shall Jehovah punish with his sword; his well-tempered, and great, and strong sword; Leviathan the rigid serpent, and Leviathan the winding serpent: and shall slay the monster, that is in the sea. Lowth. This prophesy may be connected either with the last verse of the preceding chapter, and that day, or time, refer to the time of indignation there spoken of; or you may connect it with the latter end of the 24th chapter, and particularly the 21st... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 27:2

Isaiah 27:2. In that day, &c.— The church, being purified by the fire of affliction, shall at that time, the prophet informs us, appear in its true character: Fervent in faith, love, zeal, piety, it shall be beheld in all its full beauty and comeliness, which is the end and design of all its afflictions and trials, This he sets forth by an elegant emblem, declaring that God should have at that time a vineyard of red, or fervent wine; alluding to the church, glowing with the zeal of religion... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:7

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:10

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:11

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 27:12

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 27

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 27:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 27:2

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