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 Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: "Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, 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 justice, and by the spirit of burning.

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

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

"But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, and like launderer's soap;

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

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives."

The groves

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

For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."

I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

Images

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

General references

and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;

I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.