Isaiah 27

Chapter 27

The Deliverance of Israel

¹In that day ^athe Lord will punish ^1bLeviathan the fleeing serpent,

With His fierce and great and mighty sword,

Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;

And ^cHe will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

²In that day,

“A ^1avineyard of wine, sing of it!

³“I, the Lord, am its keeper;

^aI water it every moment.

So that no one will ¹damage it,

I ^bguard it night and day.

⁴“I have no wrath.

Should ¹someone give Me ^abriars and thorns in battle,

Then I would step on them, ^bI would burn them ²completely.

⁵“Or let him ^1arely on My protection,

Let him make peace with Me,

Let him ^bmake peace with Me.”

⁶¹In the days to come Jacob ^awill take root,

Israel will ^bblossom and sprout,

And they will fill the ²whole world with ^cfruit.

⁷Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has ^aHe struck them?

Or like the slaughter of His slain, ¹have they been slain?

⁸You contended with them ¹by banishing them, by ^adriving them away.

With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the ^beast wind.

⁹Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be ^aforgiven;

And this will be ¹the full price of the ^2bpardoning of his sin:

When he makes all the ^caltar stones like pulverized chalk stones;

When ³Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

¹⁰For the fortified city is ^aisolated,

A ¹homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;

^bThere the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and ²feed on its branches.

¹¹When its ^alimbs are dry, they are broken off;

Women come and make a fire with them,

For they are not a people of ^bdiscernment,

Therefore ^ctheir Maker ^dwill not have compassion on them.

And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

¹²In that day the Lord ^awill start His threshing from the flowing stream of the ^bEuphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be ^cgathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

¹³It will come about also in that day that a great ^atrumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of ^bAssyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and ^cworship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.