Isaiah 1:27
in Isaiah 1Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.
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Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
KJV
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
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This verse in Isaiah 1
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Zion - See the note at Isa 1:8. The word Zion here is used to designate the whole Jewish people to whom the prophet had reference; that is, the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, Isa 1:1. Shall be redeemed - The word used here - פדה pâdâh - is employed in two senses in the Scriptures. It implies always the idea of deliverance, as from captivity, danger, punishment, slavery, sin.
This site's exposition
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment
on Isaiah 1:27-31
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment pairs two words the chapter has kept apart until now, judgment as the very means of the redemption rather than its opposite, her converts turning back by way of the same righteousness that condemned them. The oaks and gardens named in verse twenty nine point at the groves used in Canaanite worship, planted for the shade and for the god believed to live in it, and the shame promised is the shame of trusting a tree that itself is dying, a leaf fading, a garden without water. The chapter's last image turns the guilty into their own fuel, the strong as tow and the maker of it as a spark, both burning together with nothing to quench them, judgment that needs no outside fire because the sin has already supplied it.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 27-28.) Zion will be redeemed by justice, and they will bring her back to righteousness. And it will crush the wicked and sinners together; and those who have forsaken the Lord will be consumed. Not all will be redeemed, nor will all be saved, but only the remnant, as mentioned before. However, they will be brought back to righteousness once the wicked and sinners have been crushed, and those who have forsaken the Lord will be consumed.
The Medieval Church1 voice
Zion shall be redeemed, from oppressors, in judgment, through the execution of justice; and they shall bring her back in justice, because judgment is the restoration of the equality in which justice consists: to judge your people with justice, and your poor with judgment (Ps …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
With - Or, by judgment, that is, by God's righteous judgment, purging out those wicked and incorrigible Jews, and destroying their unmerciful enemies. Converts - Hebrew. her returners, those of them who shall come out of captivity into their own land. Righteousness - Or, by righteousness, either by my faithfulness, in keeping my promise, or by my goodness.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
The judgment and righteousness are God's first (Isa 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.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
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.”
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צִיּ֖וֹן | tziyon | Zion | H6726 → | 154 times |
| בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣ט | bemishpat | with justice | H4941 → | 422 times |
| תִּפָּדֶ֑ה | tipadeh | it will be redeemed | H6299 → | 59 times |
| וְשָׁבֶ֖יהָ | veshaveiha | and repentant [ones] its | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| בִּצְדָקָֽה׃ | bitzdakah | with righteousness | H6666 → | 157 times |
צִיּ֖וֹןZion
tziyonH6726 →154 times
בְּמִשְׁפָּ֣טwith justice
bemishpatH4941 →422 times
תִּפָּדֶ֑הit will be redeemed
tipadehH6299 →59 times
וְשָׁבֶ֖יהָand repentant [ones] its
veshaveihaH7725 →1056 times
בִּצְדָקָֽה׃with righteousness
bitzdakahH6666 →157 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
it leads to
- 1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Hebrews 9:14
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- 1 Peter 1:18
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
- Titus 3:8
This saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so that those who have believed God will take care to devote themselves to good deeds. These things are excellent and profitable…
- 1 Peter 2:9
Through
Isaiah 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
it leads to
- Psalms 46:10
“Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.”
- Isaiah 12:4
and on that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD; proclaim His name! Make His works known among the peoples; declare that His name is exalted.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11
Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom,…
- Psalms 46:10
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); George Adam Smith, The Book of Isaiah, Expositor's Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.