Isaiah 27

The Redemption of Israel

27In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong ^dsword will punish ^eLeviathan the fleeing serpent, ^eLeviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay ^fthe dragon that is in the sea.

²In that day,

^g“A pleasant vineyard,^{1 h}sing of it!

³I, the Lord, am its keeper;

every moment I water it.

Lest anyone punish it,

I keep it night and day;

⁴I have no wrath.

ⁱWould that I had thorns and briers to battle!

I would march against them,

I would burn them up together.

⁵Or let them lay hold of my protection,

let them make peace with me,

let them make peace with me.”

^6jIn days to come² Jacob shall take root,

Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots

and fill the whole world with fruit.

^7kHas he struck them ^las he struck those who struck them?

Or have they been slain ^mas their slayers were slain?

⁸ⁿMeasure by measure,³ by exile you contended with them;

^ohe removed them with his fierce breath⁴ in the day of the east wind.

⁹Therefore by this ^pthe guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,

and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:⁵

^qwhen he makes all the stones of the altars

like chalkstones crushed to pieces,

no ^rAsherim or incense altars will remain standing.

^10sFor the fortified city is solitary,

a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;

there the calf grazes;

there it lies down and strips its branches.

¹¹When its boughs are dry, they are broken;

women come and make a fire of them.

^tFor this is a people without discernment;

therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;

he who formed them will show them no favor.

¹²In that day ^ufrom the river Euphrates⁶ to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. ¹³And in that day ^va great trumpet will be blown, ^wand those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt ^xwill come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.