Isaiah 27 · Verse 2

Isaiah 27:2

In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
Isaiah 27:2, King James Version

Isaiah 27:2 in other translations

BSBIn that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
WEBIn that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
ASVIn that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.
YLTIn that day, ‘A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,
DARBYIn that day there shall be a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:
BBEIn that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
WebsterIn that day sing ye to her, A vineyard of red wine.

What does Isaiah 27:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. In that day when leviathan shall be destroyed, the vineyard (Psa 80:8), the Church of God, purged of its blemishes, shall be lovely in God's eyes; to bring out this sense the better, Lowth, by changing a Hebrew letter, reads "pleasant," "lovely," for "red wine." sing--a responsive song [Lowth]. unto her--rather, "concerning her" (see on Is 5:1); namely, the Jewish state [Maurer].

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Sing ye unto her - אנו לה anu lah. Bishop Lowth translates this, Sing ye a responsive song; and says that ענה anah, to answer, signifies occasionally to sing responsively; and that this mode of singing was frequently practiced among the ancient Hebrews. See De Poes. Sac. Hebrews Prael. xix., at the beginning. This, indeed, was the ancient method of singing in various nations. The song was divided into distinct portions, and the singers sang alternately. There is a fine specimen of this in the song of Deborah and Barak; and also in the Idyls of Theocritus, and the Eclogues of Virgil. This kind of singing was properly a dialogue in verse, sung to a particular tune, or in the mode which is now termed recitativo. I have seen it often practiced on funeral occasions among the descendants of the aboriginal Irish. The poems of Ossian are of this kind. The learned Bishop distinguishes the parts of this dialogue thus: - 3. Jehovah. It is I, Jehovah, that preserve her; I will water her every moment: I will take care of her by night; And by day I will keep guard over her. 4. Vineyard. I have no wall for my defense: O that I had a fence of the thorn and brier! Jehovah. Against them should I march in battle, I should burn them up together. 5. Ah! let her rather take hold of my protection. Vineyard. Let him make peace with me! Peace let him make with me! 6. Jehovah. They that come from the root of Jacob shall flourish, Israel shall bud forth; And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. A vineyard of red wine - The redder the wine, the more it was valued, says Kimchi. Bishop Lowth translates, To the beloved vineyard. For חמר chemer, red, a multitude of MSS. and editions have חמד chemed, desirable. This is supported by the Septuagint and Chaldee.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 27:1-5

God's care over his people. (Is. 27:1-5) A promise of their recall to Divine favour. (Is. 27:6-13) Verses 1-5 The Lord Jesus with his strong sword, the virtue of his death, and the preaching of his gospel, does and will destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, that old serpent. The world is a fruitless, worthless wilderness; but the church is a vineyard, a place that has great care taken of it…

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Isaiah 27:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בַּיּ֖וֹםbai.Yomin the dayH3117
הַה֑וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931
כֶּ֥רֶםKe.rema vineyard ofH3754
חֶ֖מֶדChe.meddelightH2531
עַנּוּ\־'a.nu-singH6030
לָֽהּ\׃Lahof it

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

Cross references for Isaiah 27:2

  • Jeremiah 2:21

    Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

  • Psalms 80:8-19

    Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. …

  • Isaiah 5:1-7

    Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? …

  • Numbers 21:17

    Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

  • Luke 20:9-18

    Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. …

  • Matthew 21:33-46

    Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sing.
5:1-7; Nu 21:17
A vineyard.
Ps 80:8-19; Jer 2:21; Mt 21:33-46; Lu 20:9-18

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Context

  • Isaiah 27:1

    In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

  • Isaiah 27:2

    In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

  • Isaiah 27:3

    I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

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Isaiah 27:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En aquel día cantad de la viña del vino rojo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		En ce jour-là, il y aura une vigne de vin pur; chantez à son sujet:
German
Elberfelder 1871		An jenem Tage wird man singen: Ein Weinberg feurigen Weines! Besinget ihn!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		In die illa vinea meri cantabit ei.