Isaiah 27:5

Good News Translation

But if the enemies of my people want my protection, let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Or let it take hold of my strength;let it make peace with me—make peace with me.

Hebrew Names Version
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make shalom with me; [yes], let him make shalom with me.

King James Version
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

English Standard Version
Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me."

New American Standard Bible
"Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me."

New Century Version
But if anyone comes to me for safety and wants to make peace with me, he should come and make peace with me."

Amplified Bible
"Or let him (Israel) cling to My strength and rely on My protection [My stronghold], Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me."

World English Bible
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Or will he feele my strength, that he may make peace with me, and be at one with me?

Legacy Standard Bible
Or let him rely on My strong defense,Let him make peace with Me,Let him make peace with Me."

Berean Standard Bible
Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me-yes, let them make peace with Me."

Contemporary English Version
Yet if the vineyard depends on me for protection, it will become my friend and be at peace with me.

Complete Jewish Bible
unless it takes hold of my strength, in order to make peace with me, yes, to make peace with me."

Darby Translation
Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: [yea,] let him make peace with me.

Easy-to-Read Version
But if anyone comes to me for safety and wants to make peace with me, then let them come and make peace.

George Lamsa Translation
Or let Israel take hold of my strength, and I will make peace for him, peace will I give him.

Lexham English Bible
Or let it grasp at my protection; let it make peace with me; peace let it make with me."

Literal Translation
Or will he lay hold of My strength that he may make peace with Me? Let him make peace with Me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Or who will enforce me to kepe or make peace?

American Standard Version
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

Bible in Basic English
Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Or else let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; yea, let him make peace with Me.

King James Version (1611)
Or let him take holde of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let it take holde of my strength, and it shalbe at one with me, euen at one shall it be with me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I am burnt up; they that dwell in her shall cry, Let us make peace with him, let us make peace,

English Revised Version
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether rathere Y schal holde my strengthe? It schal make pees to me, it schal make pees to me, for

Update Bible Version
Otherwise let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me, [and] he shall make peace with me.

New English Translation
unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.

New King James Version
Or let him take hold of My strength, That he may make peace with Me; And he shall make peace with Me."

New Living Translation
unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me."

New Life Bible
Or let him trust in Me to keep him safe. Let him make peace with Me. Yes, let him make peace with Me."

New Revised Standard
Or else let it cling to me for protection, let it make peace with me, let it make peace with me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Else, let one lay hold of my protection, Let him make peace with me, - Peace, let him make with me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace with me?

Revised Standard Version
Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me."

Young's Literal Translation
Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me."

Contextual Overview

¹ On that day the Lord will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster that lives in the sea. ² On that day the Lord will say of his pleasant vineyard, ³ "I watch over it and water it continually. I guard it night and day so that no one will harm it. ⁴ I am no longer angry with the vineyard. If there were thorns and briers to fight against, I would burn them up completely. ⁵ But if the enemies of my people want my protection, let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me." ⁶ In the days to come the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, will take root like a tree, and they will blossom and bud. The earth will be covered with the fruit they produce.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let him: Isaiah 25:4, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 56:2, Isaiah 64:7, Joshua 9:24, Joshua 9:25, Joshua 10:6, Job 22:21, Luke 13:34, Luke 14:32, Luke 19:42, Hebrews 6:18

and he: Isaiah 57:19, Ezekiel 34:25, Ezekiel 34:26, Hosea 2:18-20, Romans 5:1-10, 2 Corinthians 5:19-21, Ephesians 2:16, Ephesians 2:17, Colossians 1:20, Colossians 1:21

Reciprocal: Isaiah 56:4 - take hold John 20:26 - Peace Acts 12:20 - but 2 Corinthians 5:20 - be Colossians 3:15 - the peace

Gill's Notes on the 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 made strong for himself; a strong tower, as the word signifies, a rock of defence, to whom saints may betake themselves, and be safe; in him they have righteousness and strength; in him is everlasting strength. The sense is, let the people of God, any and everyone of them, when afflicted and chastised by him particularly, and are ready to conclude that he is wroth with them, and is dealing with them in hot displeasure; let such look to Christ, and lay hold, and a strong hold, on him by faith, which will be greatly to their advantage and support. The Targum and Jarchi render או, translated "or", by "if"; and then the words are to be read thus, "if he will", or "should, take hold of my strength", or fortress s; or, as some render them, "O that he would t", c. it follows,

[that] he may make peace with me, [and] he shall make peace with me; or rather, "he shall make peace with me, peace shall he make with me". The phrase is doubled for the certainty of it; and the meaning is, not that the believer who lays hold by faith on Christ, Jehovah's strength, shall make peace with him; which is not in the power of any person to do, no, not the believer by his faith, repentance, or good works; but Christ the power of God, on whom he lays hold, he shall make peace, as he has, by the blood of his cross, and as the only peacemaker; and hereby the believer may see himself reconciled to God, and at peace with him; and therefore may comfortably conclude, under every providence, that there is no fury in God towards him.

s או יחזק במעזו "si prehenderit munitionem meam", Noldius. t "Utiuam, O si apprehenderit munitionem meam", Forerius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 God for a refuge.

Take hold of my strength - That is, let the enemy take hold of me to become reconciled to me. The figure here is taken probably from the act of fleeing to take hold of the horns of the altar for refuge when one was pursued (compare 1 Kings 1:50; 1 Kings 2:28).

That he may make peace with me - With me as the guardian of the vineyard. If this were done they would be safe.

And he shall make peace with me - That is, even the enemy of me and of my vineyard “may” be permitted to make peace with me. Learn,

(1) That God is willing to be reconciled to his enemies.

(2) That peace must be obtained by seeking his protection; by submitting to him, and laying hold of his strength.

(3) That if this is not done, his enemies must be inevitably destroyed.

(4) He will defend his people, and no weapon that is formed against them shall prosper.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.