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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 27:1 - 27:1
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Isa 27:1-13. Continuation of the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters.
At the time when Israel shall be delivered, and the ungodly nations punished, God shall punish also the great enemy of the Church.
sore - rather, “hard,” “well-tempered.”
leviathan - literally, in Arabic, “the twisted animal,” applicable to every great tenant of the waters, sea-serpents, crocodiles, etc. In Eze 29:3; Eze 32:2; Dan 7:1, etc. Rev 12:3, etc., potentates hostile to Israel are similarly described; antitypically and ultimately Satan is intended (Rev 20:10).
piercing - rigid [Lowth]. Flying [Maurer and Septuagint]. Long, extended, namely, as the crocodile which cannot readily bend back its body [Houbigant].
crooked - winding.
dragon - Hebrew, tenin; the crocodile.
sea - the Euphrates, or the expansion of it near Babylon.