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Isaiah 27

A prophecy against the kingdom of Satán, 2 And of the joy of the Church for their deliverance.
1.In that aday the Lord with his sore and great and mighty bsword shall visit Liviathán, that piercing serpent, even Liviathán, that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2.In that day sing of the vineyard cof red wine.
3.I the Lord do keep it: I will water it every moment: lest any assail it, I will keep it night and day.
4.Anger dis not in me: who would set the briers and the thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5.Or will he efeel my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me?
6.fHere after, Jaakób shall take root: Israél shall flourish and grow, and the world shall be filled with fruit.
7.Hath he smitten ghim as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by him?
8.In hmeasure in the branches thereof wilt thou contend with it, when he bloweth with his rough wind in the day of the East wind.
9.By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jaakób be purged, and this is all the ifruit, the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altars, as chalk stones, broken in pieces, that the groves and images may not stand up.
10.Yet the kdefensed city shalbe desolate, and the habitation shalbe forsaken, and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie, and consume the branches thereof.
11.When the boughs of it are dry, they shalbe broken: the lwomen come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of none understanding: therefore he that made them, shall not have compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall have no mercy on them.
12.And in that day shall the Lord thresh from the channel of the mRiver unto the river of Egypt, and ye shalbe gathered, one by one, ô children of Israél.
13.In that day also shall the great trumpe be nblowen, and they shall come, which perished in the land of Asshúr: and they that were chased into the land of Egypt, and they shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalém.

Notes

1-a.
At the time appointed.
1-b.
That is, by his mighty power and by his word. He prophecies here of the destruction of Satan and his kingdom under the name of Leviathan, Asshúr and Egypt.
2-c.
Meaning, of the best wine, which this vineyard, that is the Church, should bring forth as most agreeable to the Lord.
4-d.
Therefore he will destroy the kingdom of Satan, because he loves his Church for his own mercy's sake, and can not be angry with it, but wishes that he may pour his anger upon the wicked infidels, whom he means by briers and thorns.
5-e.
He marvels, that Israel will not come by gentleness, except God make them to feel his rods, and so bring them unto him.
6-f.
Though I afflict and diminish my people for a time, yet shall the root spring again and bring forth in great abundance.
7-g.
He shows that God punishes his in mercy, and his enemies in justice.
8-h.
That is, you will not destroy the root of your Church though the branches thereof seem to perish by the sharp wind of affliction.
9-i.
He shows that there is no true repentance, nor full reconciliation to God, till the heart be purged from all idolatry, and the monuments thereof destroyed.
10-k.
Notwithstanding his favour that he will show them after, yet Jerusalem shall be destroyed, and grass for cattle shall grow in it.
11-l.
God shall not have need of mighty enemies: for the very women shall do it, to their great shame.
12-m.
He shall destroy all from the Euphrates to Nilus, for some fled toward Egypt, thinking to have escaped.
13-n.
In the time of Cyrus, by whom they should be delivered but this was chiefly accomplished under Christ.