Isaiah 27

Deliverance of Israel

27In that day,^o

the Lord will punish with his sword^p—

his fierce, great and powerful sword—

Leviathan^q the gliding serpent,^r

Leviathan the coiling serpent;

he will slay the monster^s of the sea.

²In that day^t—

“Sing^u about a fruitful vineyard:^v

³I, the Lord, watch over it;

I water^w it continually.

I guard^x it day and night

so that no one may harm^y it.

⁴I am not angry.

If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!

I would march against them in battle;

I would set them all on fire.^z

⁵Or else let them come to me for refuge;^a

let them make peace^b with me,

yes, let them make peace with me.”

⁶In days to come Jacob will take root,^c

Israel will bud and blossom^d

and fill all the world with fruit.^e

⁷Has the Lord struck her

as he struck^f down those who struck her?

Has she been killed

as those were killed who killed her?

⁸By warfare^a and exile^g you contend with her—

with his fierce blast he drives her out,

as on a day the east wind^h blows.

⁹By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atonedⁱ for,

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

When he makes all the altar stones^k

to be like limestone crushed to pieces,

no Asherah poles^bl or incense altars^m

will be left standing.

¹⁰The fortified city stands desolate,ⁿ

an abandoned settlement, forsaken^o like the wilderness;

there the calves graze,^p

there they lie down;^q

they strip its branches bare.

¹¹When its twigs are dry, they are broken off^r

and women come and make fires^s with them.

For this is a people without understanding;^t

so their Maker has no compassion on them,

and their Creator^u shows them no favor.^v

¹²In that day the Lord will thresh^w from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,^x and you, Israel, will be gathered^y up one by one. ¹³And in that day^z a great trumpet^a will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled^b in Egypt^c will come and worship^d the Lord on the holy mountain^e in Jerusalem.