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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links and a discussion forum 2013 July 7
Dragon: Detail From Sant Jordi or Saint George Killing the Dragon (1434-1435)
Bernat Martorell (1390-1452)
Photo Source: AA.VV., El llibre d'or de l'art catala, Edicions Primera Plana, Barcelona, 1997
International Gothic Style
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Image Source: Wikipedia
Explanation: In Isaiah 27, as in chapter 26, the prophet offers a song concerning the Last Days. The song opens with a prophecy of the death of the Leviathan - the piercing, crooked serpent - the dragon that is in the sea (1). Inspired by this, his people sing concerning "a vineyard of red wine," kept, watered, and protected by the LORD (2-3). In response, the LORD encourages his enemies to make peace with him because he could burn through them like fire through thorns (4-5). And, as an added incentive to make peace, the prophet contrasts this potential disaster with the blessing which the LORD will send through Israel, causing them to root, blossom, and bud and to fill the world with their fruit (6). As Israel has been smitten, so it shall be purged and made fruitful (7-9). But first will come desolation and disfavor (10-11). Then a great trumpet will sound; and from Assyria and Egypt they shall come "and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem" (12-13).
Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
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