< Isaiah 27 >

1 At that time the Lord will take his sharp, large, and strong sword, and punish Leviathan, the slithering serpent, and Leviathan, the coiled serpent, and he will kill the sea dragon.
in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to reckon: punish LORD in/on/with sword his [the] severe and [the] great: large and [the] strong upon Leviathan serpent fleeing and upon Leviathan serpent crooked and to kill [obj] [the] serpent: monster which in/on/with sea
2 At that time, sing about a beautiful vineyard.
in/on/with day [the] he/she/it vineyard (delight *LB(AH)*) to sing to/for her
3 I, the Lord, take care of it, watering it often. I guard it night and day so that nobody can damage it.
I LORD to watch her to/for moment to water: watering her lest to reckon: punish upon her night and day to watch her
4 I'm not angry anymore. If there are thorns and brambles I would go and fight them, burning them all up,
rage nothing to/for me who? to give: if only! me thorn thornbush in/on/with battle to step in/on/with her to burn her unitedness
5 Otherwise they should come to me for protection. They should make their peace with me, yes, make their peace with me.
or to strengthen: hold in/on/with security my to make peace to/for me peace to make to/for me
6 In the future the descendants of Jacob will be like a tree taking root. Israel will flower and send out shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit!
[the] to come (in): come to uproot Jacob to blossom and to sprout Israel and to fill face: surface world fruit
7 Has the Lord hit Israel as he hit those that attacked them? Were they killed like their killers were killed?
like/as wound to smite him to smite him if: surely no like/as slaughter to kill his to kill
8 You dealt with them by sending them into exile, by banishing them. He drove them away with his powerful force, like when the east wind blows.
(in/on/with to drive away *L(abh)*) in/on/with to send: exile her to contend her to remove in/on/with spirit: breath his [the] severe in/on/with day east
9 Through this experience Jacob's guilt will be forgiven. The removal of their sins will come to fruition when they take all the pagan altar stones and crush them to pieces like chalk—no Asherah poles or altars of incense will be left standing.
to/for so in/on/with this to atone iniquity: guilt Jacob and this all fruit to turn aside: remove sin his in/on/with to set: make he all stone altar like/as stone chalk to shatter not to arise: rise Asherah and pillar
10 The fortified city will be abandoned, its houses as empty and lonely as a desert. Cattle will graze and rest there, stripping bare the branches of its trees.
for city to gather/restrain/fortify isolation pasture to send: depart and to leave: forsake like/as wilderness there to pasture calf and there to stretch and to end: destroy cleft her
11 Their dry branches are broken off and used by women to make fires. This is a people that doesn't have any sense, so their Maker won't feel sorry for them, and their Creator won't help them.
in/on/with to wither foliage her to break woman to come (in): come to light [obj] her for not people understanding he/she/it upon so not to have compassion him to make him and to form: formed him not be gracious him
12 At that time the Lord will thresh the grain harvested from the Euphrates River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered up one by one.
and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to beat LORD from Euphrates [the] river till Brook (Brook of) Egypt and you(m. p.) to gather to/for one one son: descendant/people Israel
13 At that time a loud trumpet will sound, and those who were dying in Assyria will return along with those exiled in Egypt. They will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
and to be in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to blow in/on/with trumpet great: large and to come (in): come [the] to perish in/on/with land: country/planet Assyria and [the] to banish in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt and to bow to/for LORD in/on/with mountain: mount [the] holiness in/on/with Jerusalem

< Isaiah 27 >