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  1. Warning! Mythical creatures ahead.<\/em> The elusive and twisting serpents Leviathan, and the dragon (crocodile) come to the world of images of prophecy from Mesopotamian mythology. There, in the creation myths, they play a central role. They were the supernatural army of the sea that rebelled, and by whose defeat, the world was created. In the Tanakh, in Genesis 1, the world was created, as is well known, without a struggle, and there is no divine power but God. But myths became images in the Tanakh, too. And the ultimate defeat of evil is likened to a decisive battle with those metaphysical forces that have forever been destroying the tranquility of the world.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Back to the vineyard.<\/em> It\u2019s worth comparing the first Song of the Vineyard (Isaiah 5:1-4), to the second one, here at verses 2-5. Look at the nature of the watering, the thorns, and the general maintenance. And most importantly: what is the same and different in the emotional tenor of each parable.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. What do the people need to do in exchange for redemption?<\/em> The answer is in verse 9.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. A global harvest<\/em>. Verse 12 tells how God will \u201cbeat out\u201d (thresh) the entire Fertile Crescent, from \u201cthe channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt [the Nile];\u201d but this thrashing is not (only) to punish, but to liberate. Like grain, or like the olive harvest, that is done by striking and shaking the branches of the tree, and then collecting the fruit, the empires will absorb the blows given, and then \u201cyou shall be picked up one by one, O children of Israel!\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The strayed and the expelled<\/em>. In Isaiah\u2019s time, the destruction of Samaria occurred, including the exile of residents of the Israelite kingdom to various regions in the Assyrian empire (the exile of the Ten Tribes, 721 BCE). 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