Isaiah 27

¹In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

²In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.

³I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.

⁴My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

⁵Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

⁶In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

⁷Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

⁸Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

⁹So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

¹⁰For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

¹¹When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

¹²And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.

¹³And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 27

¹In that day, the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

²In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard!

³I, the Lord, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

⁴Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

⁵Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."

⁶In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

⁷Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

⁸In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

⁹Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

¹⁰For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

¹¹When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

¹²It will happen in that day, that the Lord will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

¹³It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.