Isaiah 27:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

This therefore

The groves

Images

2 Chronicles 14:5

2 Chronicles 34:4

General references

Ezekiel 20:34

Micah 5:12

Bible References

This therefore

Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes.

when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.

Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word.

The blows of a wound will cleanse evil, as will beatings of the {innermost part}.

My child, eat honey, for [it is] good, and the dripping of the honeycomb [is] sweet to your taste.

And [even] some of those {who have insight} will fall [in order for] them to be refined by it, and to be purified and cleansed until the time of [the] end, for the appointed time [is] still to come.

And who [can] endure the day of his coming? And who [is] the one who can stand {when he appears}? For he [is] like a refiner's fire, like launderers' alkali.

But [if we] are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.

For the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves, and punishes every son whom he accepts."

The groves

For you will be ashamed of [the] oaks [in] which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.

For [there is] a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of [the] proud and [the] lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble,

it will not look to the altars, the work of its hands, and it will not see what its fingers made and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars.

Ephraim, {what have I to do} with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruit comes from me.

And I will cut off your idols and your stone pillars from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.

{And then}, on that day,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land.

Images

And he removed the high places and the incense stands from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom had rest under him.

And he destroyed before him the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense stands above them. And the Asherahs, the idols, and the images he smashed. And he ground [them] to powder and sprinkled [the dust] over the burial sites of those who sacrificed to them.

General references

And I will bring you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries [to] which you were scattered with strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with rage poured out.

And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you will not have soothsayers.