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THE MESSAGE

Isaiah 1:27

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Church;   God Continued...;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Conversion;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abdon (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Conversion;   Fatherless;   Isaiah;   Zion;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gift, Giving;   Isaiah;   Isaiah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Redemption (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Conversion;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Conversion;   Isaiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Conversion to Christianity;   Judah I.;   Salvation;   Simeon B. Ḥalafta;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Zion will be redeemed by justice,those who repent, by righteousness.
Hebrew Names Version
Tziyon shall be redeemed with justice, And her converts with righteousness.
King James Version
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
English Standard Version
Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.
New Century Version
By doing what is fair, Jerusalem will be free again. By doing what is right, her people who come back to the Lord will have freedom.
Amplified Bible
Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.
World English Bible
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her converts with righteousness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Zion shalbe redeemed in iudgement, and they that returne in her, in iustice.
Legacy Standard Bible
Zion will be redeemed with justiceAnd her repentant ones with righteousness.
Berean Standard Bible
Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.
Contemporary English Version
Jerusalem, you will be saved by showing justice; Zion's people who turn to me will be saved by doing right.
Complete Jewish Bible
Tziyon will be redeemed by justice; and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
Darby Translation
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness.
Easy-to-Read Version
God is good and does what is right, so he will rescue Zion and the people who come back to him.
George Lamsa Translation
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her captivity with righteousness.
Good News Translation
Because the Lord is righteous, he will save Jerusalem and everyone there who repents.
Lexham English Bible
Zion will be redeemed by justice, and those of her who repent, by righteousness.
Literal Translation
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her returning ones with righteousness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Sion shalbe redemed with equyte, and hyr captiuyte with rightuousnesse
American Standard Version
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and they that return of her with righteousness.
King James Version (1611)
Zion shall be redeemed with iudgement, and her conuerts with righteousnesse.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sion shalbe redeemed with equitie, and her conuertes with righteousnesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For her captives shall be saved with judgement, and with mercy.
English Revised Version
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sion schal be ayen bouyt in dom, and thei schulen bringe it ayen in to riytfulnesse;
Update Bible Version
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
New English Translation
Zion will be freed by justice, and her returnees by righteousness.
New King James Version
Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And her penitents with righteousness.
New Living Translation
Zion will be restored by justice; those who repent will be revived by righteousness.
New Life Bible
Zion will be saved by being fair. Those who are sorry for their sins and turn from them will be saved by being right and good.
New Revised Standard
Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Zion, with justice shall be redeemed, - And her returning ones, with righteousness;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.
Revised Standard Version
Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
Young's Literal Translation
Zion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in righteousness.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Zion will be redeemed with justice And her repentant ones with righteousness.

Contextual Overview

21Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they're all at one another's throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless. 24This Decree, therefore, of the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, the Strong One of Israel: "This is it! I'll get my oppressors off my back. I'll get back at my enemies. I'll give you the back of my hand, purge the junk from your life, clean you up. I'll set honest judges and wise counselors among you just like it was back in the beginning. Then you'll be renamed City-That-Treats-People-Right, the True-Blue City." God 's right ways will put Zion right again. God 's right actions will restore her penitents. But it's curtains for rebels and God -traitors, a dead end for those who walk out on God . "Your dalliances in those oak grove shrines will leave you looking mighty foolish, All that fooling around in god and goddess gardens that you thought was the latest thing. You'll end up like an oak tree with all its leaves falling off, Like an unwatered garden, withered and brown. ‘The Big Man' will turn out to be dead bark and twigs, and his ‘work,' the spark that starts the fire That exposes man and work both as nothing but cinders and smoke."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

redeemed: Isaiah 5:16, Isaiah 45:21-25, Romans 3:24-26, Romans 11:26, Romans 11:27, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:8, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19

her converts: or, they that return of her, 1 Corinthians 1:30

Reciprocal: Isaiah 4:3 - shall be Isaiah 33:5 - he hath Isaiah 44:22 - return Isaiah 62:1 - the righteousness Jeremiah 30:20 - children Daniel 8:14 - then Obadiah 1:17 - there shall be holiness Malachi 3:4 - the offering

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Genesis 1:9
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:18
God said, "It's not good for the Man to be alone; I'll make him a helper, a companion." So God formed from the dirt of the ground all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the Man to see what he would name them. Whatever the Man called each living creature, that was its name. The Man named the cattle, named the birds of the air, named the wild animals; but he didn't find a suitable companion.
Colossians 1:15
We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross. You yourselves are a case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got. But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God's side and put your lives together, whole and holy in his presence. You don't walk away from a gift like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other Message—just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message. I want you to know how glad I am that it's me sitting here in this jail and not you. There's a lot of suffering to be entered into in this world—the kind of suffering Christ takes on. I welcome the chance to take my share in the church's part of that suffering. When I became a servant in this church, I experienced this suffering as a sheer gift, God's way of helping me serve you, laying out the whole truth. This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it's out in the open. God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God's glory. It's that simple. That is the substance of our Message. We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That's what I'm working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.
Colossians 1:26
This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it's out in the open. God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, so therefore you can look forward to sharing in God's glory. It's that simple. That is the substance of our Message. We preach Christ, warning people not to add to the Message. We teach in a spirit of profound common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That's what I'm working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,.... The blessing of redemption by Christ is the source and foundation of the other blessings of grace, before mentioned, the little remnant are favoured with, as justification, pardon of sin, and conversion, Isaiah 1:18 Isaiah 1:25 it is of a spiritual nature; the redemption of the soul is a deliverance from the captivity of sin, Satan, and the law, and is plenteous and eternal; the objects of redeeming grace are "Zion"

and her converts; not the world, but the church is redeemed by Christ; for by Zion is meant, not a place, but people, even the church and people of God, who frequently bear the name of Zion in this prophecy, and in other passages of Scripture, both of the Old and of the New Testament; see Isaiah 49:14 compared to Mount Zion for its height and holiness; for being the object of God's love, the instance of his choice, the place of his habitation; where his worship is, he grants his presence, and distributes his blessings; for its being a perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth, well fortified and immovable: and the redemption of the church by Christ is

with judgment; with the judgment and vengeance of God on Christ, and through the condemnation of him as her Head and representative; with the judgment of God, which is according to truth, in whose judgment she is truly redeemed by the blood of Christ, and really delivered from her bondage, according to his justice and holiness, which are glorified by it: but here the redemption of Zion seems to mean a more glorious state of the church, a restoration of her to her former glory, or to a greater, which will be in the latter day, and may be discerned as drawing near by the signs of the times fulfilling,

Luke 21:28 whereby the truth and faithfulness of God, in his promises concerning it, will be honoured, and he will appear to be a God of judgment:

and her converts with righteousness; so called, not because converted by the church, for conversion is God's work, and not man's; no man can effect his own conversion, he is passive in it; nor can any others, not their nearest friends and relations; they can only pray for it, as Abraham did for Ishmael, and bring them under the means; nor are ministers sufficient, only instruments of conversion neither Zion's ministers nor members can convert one sinner: but they are so called, either because converted "in" her, through the ministry of the word as a means, preached in the midst of her, Psalms 87:5 or because converted "to" her, Isaiah 60:5 being made to submit to the ordinances of the church, and to join themselves to it. "Converts" are the objects of redemption by Christ; all that are redeemed are, sooner or later, converted; and all that are converted are redeemed; and the redemption of them by his blood is consistent "with" the "righteousness" of God; for hereby sin is fully condemned and punished; the justice of God has all its demands, and the law is completely fulfilled; and so the end of God is answered, which is to declare his righteousness by it. Moreover, in the latter day, when there, will be a redemption and deliverance or the church out of all her troubles and distresses, her converts will manifestly appear to be all righteous, being justified with the spotless righteousness of Christ,

Isaiah 60:21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Zion - See the note at Isaiah 1:8. The word Zion here is used to designate the whole Jewish people to whom the prophet had reference; that is, the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, Isaiah 1:1.

Shall be redeemed - The word used here - פדה pâdâh - is employed in two senses in the Scriptures. It implies always the idea of deliverance, as from captivity, danger, punishment, slavery, sin. But this idea occurs:

(1) sometimes without any reference to a price paid, but simply denoting to deliver, or to set at liberty; and

(2) in other instances the price is specified, and then the word occurs under the strict and proper sense of redeem; that is, to rescue, or deliver, by a ransom price.

Instances of the former general sense occur often; as e. q., to deliver from slavery without mere ion of a price; Deuteronomy 7:8 : ‘The Loan loved you, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen.’ See also Jeremiah 15:21; Jeremiah 31:11. The idea of delivering in any way from danger occurs often; Job 5:20 : ‘In famine he shall redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword;’ 1 Kings 1:29 : ‘As Jehovah liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress.’ 1 Samuel 4:9. But the word often occurs in connection with the mention of the price, and in this sense the words rendered redeem are commonly used in the New Testament; see Exodus 13:13; Numbers 18:15-17; compare Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 1:18; Revelation 5:9; Ephesians 1:17. Matthew 20:28; 1 Timothy 2:6. In these last places, the blood of Christ, or his atoning sacrifice, is mentioned as the price, or the valuable consideration, by which deliverance from sin is effected; compare the note at Isaiah 43:3. In the case now before us, however, the word is used in the general sense, to denote that God would rescue and save his people from the calamities and judgments to which they were to be subjected on account of their sins. Though they were to be taken captive for their sins, yet they should again be delivered and restored to their land. The Septuagint evidently so understands it: ‘Her captivity shall be saved with judgment and with mercy.’ The Chaldee Paraphrase renders it in a manner somewhat similar: ‘But Zion, when judgment shall have been accomplished in her, shall be redeemed; and they who keep the law shall be returned to it in righteousness.’

With judgment - In a righteous, just manner. That is, God shall evince his justice in doing it; his justice to a people to whom so many promises had been made, and his justice in delivering them from long and grievous oppression. All this would be attended with the displays of judgment, in effecting their deliverance. This might be evinced

(1) in keeping his promises made to their fathers;

(2) in delivering an oppressed people from bondage; and

(3) in the displays of judgment on the nations necessary in accomplishing the deliverance of the Jews. This is the common interpretation.

It may be, however, that the expression does not refer to the character of God, which is not at all the subject of discourse, but to the character of the people that should be redeemed. Before, the nation was corrupt; after the captivity, they would be just. Zion should be redeemed; and the effect of that redemption would be, that the people would be reformed, and holy, and just. This does not refer, properly, to redemption by the Lord Jesus, though it is equally true that that will be accomplished with justice, that is, in entire consistency with the character of a just and holy God.

Her converts - This is an unhappy translation. The Hebrew here means simply, ‘they that return of her’ (margin); that is, those who return from captivity. It is implied that all would not return - which was true - but those who did return, would come back in righteousness.

With righteousness - This refers to the character of those who shall return. The prediction is, that the character of the nation would be reformed Isaiah 1:26; that it would be done by means of this very captivity; and that they who returned would come back with a different character from the nation at the time that Isaiah wrote. They would be a reformed, righteous people. The character of the nation was greatly improved after the captivity. Their propensity to idolatry, in a particular manner, was effectually restrained; and probably the character of the people after the captivity, for morals and religion, was not inferior to the best periods of their history before.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 1:27. With judgment - "In judgment"] By the exercise of God's strict justice in destroying the obdurate, (see Isaiah 1:28,) and delivering the penitent in righteousness; by the truth and faithfulness of God in performing his promises."


 
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