Isaiah 27

27TH CHAPTER

The Lord’s People Will Worship on His Holy Mountain

¹On that day the Lord will use his fierce and powerful sword 

to punish Leviathan,that slippery snake, 

Leviathan, that twisting snake. 

He will kill that monster which lives in the sea. 

²On that day sing about a delightful vineyard. 

³I, the Lord, watch over it. 

I water it continually. 

I watch over it day and night 

so that no one will harm it. 

⁴I am no longer angry. 

If only thorns and briars would confront me! 

I would fight them in battle and set all of them on fire. 

⁵Or else let them come to me for protection. 

Let them make peace with me. 

Yes, let them make peace with me. 

⁶In times to come Jacob will take root. 

Israel will blossom, bud, 

and fill the whole world with fruit. 

⁷Will the Lord hurt Israel as he hurt others who hurt them? 

Will he kill them as he killed others? 

⁸He punished Israel by sending it away. 

He removed it with a fierce blast from the east winds. 

⁹In this way the wrongdoings of the descendants of Jacob are covered up. 

This is the way they will turn from their sins— 

when they turn all the altar stones into powdered chalk 

and no poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah 

or incense altars are left standing. 

¹⁰The fortified city is isolated. 

The homestead is left deserted, abandoned like the desert. 

Calves will graze there. 

They will lie down. 

They will feed on the branches. 

¹¹When the branches are dried up, 

they will be broken off. 

Women will come and build a fire with them. 

These people don’t understand ⸤these things⸥. 

That is why their maker won’t have compassion on them, 

and their Creator won’t have pity on them. 

¹²On that day the Lord will begin his threshing^c

from the flowing stream of the Euphrates River 

to the brook of Egypt. 

People of Israel, you will be gathered one by one. 

¹³On that day a ram’s horn will be blown loudly. 

Those who are dying in Assyria 

and those who are banished to Egypt 

will come and worship the Lord 

on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.