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Isa. 27:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathank the τpiercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

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Psa. 74:14• ¹⁴{i}Thou{/i} didst crush the heads of leviathan,{HR}Thou gavest it as food to a people dwelling in the wilderness. (Psa. 74:14)

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or, crossing like a bar.

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Isa. 26:21• ²¹For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth on them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. (Isa. 26:21)

with his.

Isa. 34:5‑6• ⁵For my sword shall be bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment.
⁶The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. (Isa. 34:5‑6)

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Isa. 66:16• ¹⁶For by fire and by his sword will Jehovah plead with all flesh: and the slain of Jehovah shall be many. (Isa. 66:16)

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Deut. 32:41‑42• ⁴¹If I whet my glittering sword,{HR}And mine hand take hold on judgment;{HR}I will render vengeance to mine enemies,{HR}And will reward them that hate me.
⁴²I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,{HR}And my sword shall devour flesh;{HR}And that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,{HR}From the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. (Deut. 32:41‑42)

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Job 40:19• ¹⁹He [is] chief of the ways of God:{HR}His Maker presented his scythe, (Job 40:19)

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Psa. 45:3• ³Gird thy sword upon the thigh,{HR}Ο mighty one, thy glory and thy majesty. (Psa. 45:3)

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Jer. 47:6• ⁶O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. (Jer. 47:6)

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Rev. 2:16• ¹⁶Repent therefore; but if not, I am coming to thee quickly, and will fight with them with the sword of my mouth. (Rev. 2:16)

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Rev. 19:21• ²¹And the rest were slain with the sword of him that sat on the horse ( {i}the sword{/i} that came forth out of his mouth; and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. (Rev. 19:21)

leviathan.

Job 12:1‑25• ¹And Job answered, and said,
²Truly ye [are] the people,{HR}And wisdom shall die with you.
³But I have a heart as well as you,{HR}I do not sink beneath you:{HR}And with whom [are] not such things as these?
⁴A mockery to his neighbours am I,{HR}One calling on God, and he heard him:{HR}The just, upright, one a mockery!
⁵For misfortune scorn, in the thoughts of the secure,{HR}[Is] ready, for those that slide with the feet.
⁶To the spoilers are the tents at peace,{HR}And those who provoke God have security —{HR}He who causeth God to enter into his hand.
⁷But ask now even the beasts — they can teach thee —{HR}And the fowl of the heavens, and it will declare to thee,
⁸Or think on the earth, and it shall teach thee,{HR}And fishes of the sea shall tell out to thee:
⁹Who doth not know by all these{HR}That the hand of Jehovah hath done this?
¹⁰In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing,{HR}And the spirit of all flesh of men?
¹¹Doth not the ear try words,{HR}As the palate tasteth food for itself?
¹²Among the aged [is] wisdom,{HR}And in length of days understanding.
¹³With him [are] wisdom and might,{HR}He hath counsel and understanding.
¹⁴He breaketh down, and it is not built up.{HR}He shutteth up on man, and it is not opened.
¹⁵Lo, he restraineth the waters, and they dry up;{HR}And he sendeth them forth, and they overturn the land.
¹⁶With him [are] strength and wisdom,{HR}His the deceived and the deceiver,
¹⁷Leading counselors away spoiled,{HR}And judges he maketh foolish;
¹⁸The band of kings he looseth,{HR}And bindeth a girdle on their loins.
¹⁹He leadeth priests, away spoiled,{HR}And overthroweth the strong.
²⁰He removeth the lips of the trusted,{HR}And taketh away the tact of the aged.
²¹He poureth contempt upon princes,{HR}And looseth the girdle of the mighty.
²²He discovereth deep things out of darkness,{HR}And bringeth out to light death-shade.
²³He magnifieth nations, and destroyeth them,{HR}He leadeth out nations, and leadeth them in.
²⁴He taketh away the heart{HR}Of the chief of the people of the land,{HR}And he causeth them to wander{HR}In a wilderness — no way.
²⁵They grope in the dark without light,{HR}And he maketh them wander as a drunkard. (Job 12:1‑25)

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Psa. 74:14• ¹⁴{i}Thou{/i} didst crush the heads of leviathan,{HR}Thou gavest it as food to a people dwelling in the wilderness. (Psa. 74:14)

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Psa. 104:26• ²⁶There ships go,{HR}This leviathan thou hast made to play therein; (Psa. 104:26)

piercing.

or, crossing like a bar.

crooked.

Isa. 65:25• ²⁵The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox: and dust [shall be] the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 65:25)

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Job 26:13• ¹³By his Spirit the heavens are brightness,{HR}His hand pierceth the fleeing serpent. (Job 26:13)

the dragon.

Isa. 51:9• ⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the ancient days, the generations of old. [Art] thou not he that cut Rahab in pieces, [and] wounded the monster? (Isa. 51:9)

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Psa. 74:13‑14• ¹³{i}Thou{/i} didst divide the sea by thy strength;{HR}Thou didst break the heads of dragons on the waters;
¹⁴{i}Thou{/i} didst crush the heads of leviathan,{HR}Thou gavest it as food to a people dwelling in the wilderness. (Psa. 74:13‑14)

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Jer. 51:34• ³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. (Jer. 51:34)

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Ezek. 29:3• ³Speak and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. (Ezek. 29:3)

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Ezek. 32:2‑5• ²Son of man take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas; and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
³Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
⁴Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
⁵And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. (Ezek. 32:2‑5)

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Rev. 12:3‑17• ³And there was seen another sign in the heaven; and, behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.
⁴And his tail draweth the third of the stars of the heaven, and cast them unto the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman that was about to bring forth, that when she brought forth he might devour her child.
⁵And she brought forth a male son, who is to rule all the nations with an iron rod: and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.
⁶And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they should nourish her a thousand two hundred {i}and{/i} sixty days.
⁷And there was war in the heaven: Michael and his angels went to war with the dragon: and the dragon made war and his angels;
⁸and he prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in the heaven.
⁹And the great dragon was cast {i}out{/i}, the ancient serpent, that is called {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, that deceiveth the whole habitable {i}world{/i}: he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast with him.
¹⁰And I heard a loud voice in the heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast {i}out{/i} that accused them before our God day and night.
¹¹And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto death.
¹²Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that tabernacle in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea! for the devil is gone down unto you, having great fury, knowing that he hath a short time.
¹³And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the male {i}child{/i}.
¹⁴And there were given to the woman [the] two wings of the great eagle, that she should fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished there a time and times and half a time from the serpent's face.
¹⁵And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might make her as carried away by a river.
¹⁶And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
¹⁷And the dragon was wroth at the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed that keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus. (Rev. 12:3‑17)

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Rev. 13:2,4,11• ²And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet as a bear's, and his mouth as a lion's mouth; and the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.
⁴And they worshipped the dragon, because he gave the authority to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who {i}is{/i} like the beast? and who is able to make war with him?
¹¹And I saw another beast rising up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (Rev. 13:2,4,11)

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Rev. 16:13• ¹³And I saw out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits as frogs. (Rev. 16:13)

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Rev. 20:2• ²And he laid hold on the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (Rev. 20:2)

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Jer. 51:13• ¹³O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. (Jer. 51:13)

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Rev. 13:1• ¹And I stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. (Rev. 13:1)

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Rev. 17:1,15• ¹And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spoke with me, saying, Come hither; I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on [the] many waters;
¹⁵And he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. (Rev. 17:1,15)

• Chapter 27 continues the theme in somewhat poetic language. Note how four times is repeated the phrase “In that day”. (“Isaiah 27” by F.B. Hole)

• Judgment in the first place will reach the evil power that lies beneath the restless “sea” of nations. This “dragon” that is in the sea can be no other than Satan, and Revelation 20 reveals how he will be dealt with. (“Isaiah 27” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathane the fleeingf serpent, and leviathane the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the seag.

JND Translation Notes

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As Job 3.8.

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Or "straight."

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See Note, ch. 19.5.

W. Kelly Translation

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In that day Jehovah with his sore and great and strong sword will visit leviathan, the piercing serpenta, and leviathan, the crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragonb that is in the sea.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, fugitive.

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Or, monster.