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

And the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, the mighty One of Israel, says, Alas! I will ease Myself of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from its midst by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Before I was afflicted I went astray; but now I have kept Your Word.

The stripes of a wound cleanses away evil, and strokes the inward parts of the belly.

My son, eat honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;

And many of those who understand shall stumble, to refine and purge them, and to make white, to the time of the end. Because it is still for the appointed time.

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who shall stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap.

But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

for whom the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom He receives."

The groves

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be ashamed for the gardens which you have chosen.

For the day of Jehovah of Hosts shall be on every proud and lofty one, and on every lifted up one; and he shall be brought low,

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor respect that which his fingers have made, either the Asherahs or the images.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him and watched him; I am like a green fir tree. Your fruit is found from Me.

I will also cut off your graven images, and your pillars out of the midst of you; and you shall never again worship the work of your hands.

And it shall be in that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more. And also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

Images

He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images. And the kingdom was quiet before him.

And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence. And he cut down the images which were on high above them, and the Asherahs. And the carved images and the molten images he also broke in pieces and made dust from them, and scattered on the graves of the ones who had sacrificed to them.

General references

And I will bring you out from the people, and I will gather you out of the lands in which you are scattered among them, with a mighty hand and with a stretched out arm and with fury poured out.

And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and there shall not be fortune-tellers among you.