Isaiah 27 Comparison: Catholic Public Domain vs Douay-Rheims

Isaiah 27

¹In that day, the Lord will visit, with his harsh and great and strong sword, against Leviathan, the barred serpent, and against Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will slay the whale that is in the sea.

²In that day, the vineyard of pure wine will sing to them.

³I am the Lord, who watches over it. I will suddenly give drink to it. I will watch over it, night and day, lest perhaps someone visit against it.

⁴Indignation is not mine. Who will be a thorn and a brier to me in battle? I will advance against them. I set them on fire together.

⁵Or will he, instead, take hold of my strength? Will he make peace with me? Will she make peace with me?

⁶As they advance with violence against Jacob, Israel will flourish and spring forth, and they will fill the face of the world with offspring.

⁷Has he struck him with the scourge that he himself used to strike others? Or has he killed in the manner that he himself used to kill his victims?

⁸You will judge this by comparing one measure to another, when he has been cast out. He has decided this, by his stern spirit, for the day of heat.

⁹Therefore, concerning this, the iniquity of the house of Jacob will be forgiven. And this is the reward of all: that their sin be taken away, when he will have made all the stones of the altar to be like crushed cinders. For the sacred groves and the shrines shall not stand.

¹⁰For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits.

¹¹Its harvest will be crushed by dryness. Women will arrive and teach it, for it is not a wise people. Because of this, he who made it will not take pity on it, and he who formed it will not spare it.

¹²And this shall be: in that day, the Lord will strike, from the channel of the river, even to the torrent of Egypt. And you shall be gathered together, one by one, O sons of Israel.

¹³And this shall be: in that day, a noise will be made with a great trumpet. And those who had been lost will approach from the land of the Assyrians, with those who had been outcasts in the land of Egypt. And they will adore the Lord, on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 27

¹In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

²In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine.

³I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.

⁴There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

⁵Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it make peace with me?

⁶When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

⁷Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?

⁸In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.

⁹Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

¹⁰For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.

¹¹Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

¹²And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.

¹³And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.