Isaiah 27:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

Isaiah 27:5 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 25:4
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Job 22:21
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Ephesians 2:16-17
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: …
Isaiah 45:24
Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
Isaiah 57:19
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

The prophet is here singing of judgment and mercy, I. Of judgment upon the enemies of God’s church (Isa. 27:1), tribulation to those that trouble it, 2 Thess. 1:6. When the Lord comes out of his place, to punish the inhabitants of the earth (Isa. 26:21), he will be sure to punish leviathan, the dragon that is in the sea, every proud oppressing tyrant, that is the terror of the mighty, and, like th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Or--Else; the only alternative, if Israel’s enemies wish to escape being “burnt together.” strength--rather, “the refuge which I afford” [Maurer]. “Take hold,” refers to the horns of the altar which fugitives often laid hold of as an asylum (1Ki 1:50; 2:28). Jesus is God’s “strength,” or “refuge” which sinners must repair to and take hold of, if they are to have “peace” with God (Is 45:24; Ro 5…