Isaiah 27

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The LORD’s Vineyard

¹In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—^aLeviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

¹In that day YHWH will visit with His sword, severe and great and mighty, upon Leviathan the fleeing serpent, and upon Leviathan the coiling serpent, and He will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

²In that day:

“Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

²In that day: Sing of her—a vineyard of delight!

³I, the LORD, am its keeper;

I water it continually.

I guard it night and day

so no one can disturb it;

³I, YHWH, am watching over her; every moment I water her, lest one should visit upon her; night and day I watch over her.

⁴I am not angry.

If only thorns and briers confronted Me,

I would march and trample them,

I would burn them to the ground.

⁴Anger is not in Me. Who would set against Me a thorn—a thornbush? In the battle I will march against her, I will burn her alltogether.

⁵Or let them lay claim to My protection;

let them make peace with Me—

yes, let them make peace with Me.”

⁵Or if he should take hold of My strength, he will make peace with Me—peace he will make with Me.”

⁶In the days to come, Jacob will take root.

Israel will bud and blossom

and fill the whole world with fruit.

⁶Those coming in of Jacob he causes to take root. Israel will blossom and bud, and they will fill the face of the world with fruit.

⁷Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors?

Was she killed like those who slayed her?

⁷Has He has struck him as the striking of one striking him? As if according to the slaughter of his slain was he slayed?

⁸By warfare and exile^a You contended with her

and removed her with a fierce wind,

as on the day the east wind blows.

⁸In driving her off, in sending her out, You have contended with her; He removed it by His harsh wind, as on the day of the east wind.

⁹Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for,

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

When he makes all the altar stones

like crushed bits of chalk,

no Asherah poles or incense altars

will remain standing.

⁹Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be wiped away, and this is all the fruit, to take away his sin: In His setting all the stones of the altar, as stones of chalk crushed to pieces; they will not rise—the Asherah poles and incense altars.

¹⁰For the fortified city lies deserted—

a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken.

There the calves graze, and there they lie down;

they strip its branches bare.

¹⁰For the fortified city is alone, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there he will lie down and consume her branches.

¹¹When its limbs are dry,

they are broken off.

Women come and use them for kindling;

for this is a people without understanding.

Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them,

and their Creator shows them no favor.

¹¹With the withering of her boughs, they are broken off; the women come make fires with it, for it is not for a people of understanding. Thus He who made them will not have compassion on them, and He who formed them will not show them favor.

¹²In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates^a to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.

¹²And it will come to pass in that day, that YHWH will beat out the grain, from the stream of the River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.

¹³And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

¹³And it will come to pass in that day that a great shofar will be blown, and will come those lost in the land of Assyria, and those driven away in the land of Egypt, and they will worship YHWH on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.