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title: "Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "William Pringle"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Commentaries"
section: 57 of 62
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/57/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. William Pringle, Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2, section 57. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-2/57/"
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# Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 2

*John Calvin, tr. William Pringle*

Calvin on the prophet Isaiah, volume 2 of 4.

## 57. Chapter 27

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[¶0] 1 In that day will Jehovah visit With his hard, and great, and strong sword, On leviathan the piercing serpent, And on leviathan the crooked serpent; And he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

[¶1] 2 In that day sing ye to the vineyard of redness.

[¶2] 3 I Jehovah keep it; Every moment will I water it; That (the enemy) may not visit it, I will keep it night and day.

[¶3] 4 Fury doth not dwell in me. Who shall engage me in battle with the brier and thorn? I will pass through it in a hostile manner, I will utterly burn it up.

[¶4] 5 Will she take hold of my strength, That she may make peace with me? Yea, that she may make peace with me?

[¶5] 6 Afterwards shall Jacob put forth roots; Israel shall bud and blossom; And the face of the world shall be filled with fruit.

[¶6] 7 Hath he smitten him according to the stroke of him that smote him? Hath he been slain according to the slaughter of them that slew him?

[¶7] 8 In measure, in her shooting forth, Thou wilt contend with her; Even though he blow with his violent wind In the day of the east wind.

[¶8] 9 Therefore in this manner shall the iniquity of Jacob be expiated; And this is all the fruit, The taking away of his sin; When he shall make all the stones of the altar As lime-stones broken in pieces, That groves and images may not rise again.

[¶9] 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate; The inhabited place shall be deserted, And forsaken like a wilderness. There the calf shall feed, And there shall lie down, And shall browse on its tops.

[¶10] 11 When its harvest shall wither, they shall break it; Women coming shall burn it; For it is a people that doth not understand; Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, And he who formed them will not be gracious to them.

[¶11] 12 Yet in that day it shall come to pass That Jehovah will thrash From the channel of the river To the river of Egypt; And ye shall be gathered one by one, O children of Israel.

[¶12] 13 It shall also come to pass in that day That the great trumpet shall be blown; And they shall come who were perishing in the land of Assyria, And who had been scattered in the land of Egypt; And they shall worship Jehovah In the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.