Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.
3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
Fury is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.”
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yea], let him make peace with me.
6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud: and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
Hath he smitten him as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by him?
8 By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
In measure, when thou sendest her away, thou dost contend with her; he hath removed [her] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
10 For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
For the defenced city is solitary, an habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off [his fruit], from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
