Isaiah 1 · Verse 27

Isaiah 1:27

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Isaiah 1:27, King James Version

Isaiah 1:27 in other translations

BSBZion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.
WEBZion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
ASVZion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
YLTZion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in righteousness.
DARBYZion shall be redeemed with judgment, and they that return of her with righteousness.
BBEUpright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.
WebsterZion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

What does Isaiah 1:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. redeemed--temporarily, civilly, and morally; type of the spiritual redemption by the price of Jesus Christ's blood (1Pe 1:18, 19), the foundation of "judgment" and "righteousness," and so of pardon. The judgment and righteousness are God's first (Is 42:21; Ro 3:26); so they become man's when "converted" (Ro 8:3, 4); typified in the display of God's "justice," then exhibited in delivering His covenant-people, whereby justice or "righteousness" was produced in them. converts--so Maurer. But Margin, "they that return of her," namely the remnant that return from captivity. However, as Isaiah had not yet expressly foretold the Babylonian captivity, the English Version is better.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

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

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 1:21-31

Neither holy cities nor royal ones are faithful to their trust, if religion does not dwell in them. Dross may shine like silver, and the wine that is mixed with water may still have the colour of wine. Those have a great deal to answer for, who do not help the oppressed, but oppress them. Men may do much by outward restraints; but only God works effectually by the influences of his Spirit, as a Spirit of Judgment…

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Isaiah 1:27 in the original Hebrew

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צִיּ֖וֹןtzi.YonZionH6726
בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣טbe.mish.Patwith justiceH4941
תִּפָּדֶ֑הti.pa.Dehit will be redeemedH6299
וְשָׁבֶ֖יהָve.sha.Vei.haand repentant [ones] itsH7725
בִּצְדָקָֽה\׃bitz.da.Kahwith righteousnessH6666

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 1:27

  • Isaiah 62:12

    And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

  • Isaiah 63:4

    For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

  • Isaiah 5:16

    But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

  • Isaiah 45:21-25

    Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. …

  • Romans 3:24-26

    Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

  • Romans 11:26-27

    And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

  • 1 Peter 1:18-19

    Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

  • Titus 2:14

    Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:21

    For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  • 1 Corinthians 1:30

    But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

  • Ephesians 1:7-8

    In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
redeemed.
5:16; 45:21-25; Ro 3:24-26; 11:26,27; 2Co 5:21; Eph 1:7,8
Tit 2:14; 1Pe 1:18,19
her converts. or, they that return of her.
1Co 1:30

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Context

  • Isaiah 1:26

    And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

  • Isaiah 1:27

    Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

  • Isaiah 1:28

    And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

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Isaiah 1:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Sión con juicio será rescatada, y los convertidos de ella con justicia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Sion sera rachetée par le jugement, et les siens qui reviennent, par la justice;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Zion wird erlöst werden durch Gericht, und seine Rückkehrenden durch Gerechtigkeit.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Sion in judicio redimetur, et reducent eam in justitia.