Isaiah 27

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

2 In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.

3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

4 I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

5 Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me—yes, let them make peace with Me.”

6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

7 Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?

8 By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

9 Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

10 For 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.

11 When 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.

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

13 And 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.

1 ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.

2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

4 Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

5 Or let him take hold of my strength, [that] he may make peace with me; [and] he shall make peace with me.

6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 ¶ Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this [is] all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

10 Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

1 In that day shall the LORD visit both Leviathan, which is an evil serpent, and Leviathan, which is a crooked serpent, with his fierce and great and strong sword, and shall slay the dragons in the sea.

2 In that day shall they sing of the vineyard of the best wine:

3 I the LORD will keep him, and will make him wet quickly, that his leaves be not wanting: I will keep him day and night.

4 God is not angry with me. Oh that I would have the hedges and the ladies! So I would tear among them, and set them in a heap.

5 He shall keep me in my strength, and shall make me at peace: peace shall he make me nevertheless.

6 Nevertheless it shall come to pass, that Jacob shall take root, and Israel shall flourish and be green, that they may fill the earth with fruit.

7 Yet shall he not be smitten, as his enemies smite him; neither shall he be slain, as his enemies slay him,

8 But with moderation thou judgest them, and loosest them, when thou hast afflicted them with thy rude wind, even with the east wind.

9 Therefore the sin of Jacob shall cease thereby: and this is the profit of it, that his sins be taken away, in that he maketh all the stones of the altar as stones broken to powder, that there remain no groves nor images.

10 For the strong city shall be desolate, and the goodly houses shall be cast down, and forsaken, as a wilderness: there shall calves feed, and there shall they rest, and there shall they be eaten up.

11 Their branches shall break with drought; and the women shall come and make fire therewith. For they are an unwise people: therefore he that made them shall not have mercy upon them, neither shall he that made them have compassion upon them.

12 In that day shall the LORD roll from the bank of the river unto the brook of Egypt: and ye children of Israel shall be gathered one by one.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that they shall blow with a great trumpet, that the lost of the land of Assyria, and the outcasts of the land of Egypt, shall come and worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.