Isaiah 27
1 In 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.
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.
2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
3 I, 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.
I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
5 Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.
Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.”
6 In 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.
In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Is 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?
Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
8 Your 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.
By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
9 So 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.
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.
10 For 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.
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.
11 When 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.
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.
12 And 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.
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.
13 And 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.
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.
