317Or, gliding or, fleeing
318Or, and (could imply one, two, or three beings)
319Or, winding
27: 2 In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye 320unto it.
320Or, of it.
27: 3 I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
27: 4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
27: 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yes, let him make peace with me.
27: 6 321In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
321Or, In the generations that come shall Jacob etc.
27: 7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter 322of them that were slain by them?
322Or, of their slain
27: 8 323In measure, 324when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
323ARV comments, The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain.
324Or, by sending them away,
27: 9 Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be 325atoned, and this is all the fruit 326of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
325Or, expiated, or, forgiven,
326Or, to take away his sin:
27: 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
27: 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
27: 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will 327beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be 328gathered 329one by one, O ye children of Israel.
327Or, beat out his grain from the flood etc.
328Or, gleaned
329Or, one to another,
27: 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were 330ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
330Or, lost in the land of Assyria,
