Isaiah 27
1 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
At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan, the swift-moving monster/dragon, that coiling serpent that lives in the sea. Yahweh will kill it with his sharp, huge, and powerful sword.
2 in/on/with day [the] he/she/it vineyard (delight *LB(AH)*) to sing to/for her
At that time, [Yahweh will say], “You [Israeli people, who are like] [MET] a fruitful vineyard, must sing!
3 I LORD to watch her to/for moment to water: watering her lest to reckon: punish upon her night and day to watch her
I will [protect you] [like a farmer] [MET] waters his crops carefully [in order that they will grow well]. I will guard you day and night, in order that no one harms you.
4 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
I am no [longer] angry [with my people]; [if any of your enemies try to injure you like briers and thorns injure people] [MET], I will attack them [in battles]; I will get rid of them completely,
5 or to strengthen: hold in/on/with security my to make peace to/for me peace to make to/for me
unless they request me to protect them; I strongly invite them to make peace with me [DOU]!”
6 [the] to come (in): come to uproot Jacob to blossom and to sprout Israel and to fill face: surface world fruit
There will be a time when the (descendants of Jacob/Israeli people) will [prosper like] a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; [what they do will bless] all the people in the world.
7 like/as wound to smite him to smite him if: surely no like/as slaughter to kill his to kill
[But now I ask], has Yahweh punished us Israelis like he punished our enemies? Has he punished us as much as he punished them?
8 (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
[No, he has not done that], [but] he punished us Israeli people and (exiled us/forced us to leave our country); we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
9 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
Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins, and remove our guilt. As a result [of our being exiled], all the altars to other gods [in Israel] will be demolished, and we will be forgiven for the sins that we have committed. There will be no more poles for worshiping the goddess Asherah, or altars for burning incense to other gods; they will all be torn down.
10 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
The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty; like the desert, they will have no one living in them. The houses will be abandoned, and the streets will be full of weeds. Calves will eat grass there and lie down there; they will chew up all the leaves on the trees.
11 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
[The Israeli people are like] [MET] dry branches on a tree; women break them off and use them to make fires [under their cooking pots]. Our Israeli people do not have any sense; so Yahweh, who created them, will not act mercifully toward them or be kind to them.
12 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
[However], there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together [again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people] separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them [back to Israel], one by one, from [the land between] the Euphrates River [in the northeast] and the brook at the border of Egypt [in the southwest].
13 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
At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on [Zion], his holy hill.
