In that day sing of the vineyard [a]of red wine.

I the Lord do keep it: I will water it every moment: lest any assail it, I will keep it night and day.

Anger [b]is not in me: who would set the briers and the thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:2 Meaning, of the best wine, which this vineyard, that is, the Church should bring forth, as most agreeable to the Lord.
  2. Isaiah 27:4 Therefore he will destroy the kingdom of Satan, because he loveth his Church for his own mercy’s sake, and cannot be angry with it, but wisheth that he may pour his anger upon the wicked infidels, whom he meaneth by briers and thorns.

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