Isaiah 27

¹ In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword
will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
Leviathan the twisting serpent,
and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

² In that day:
"A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!

³ I, the LORD, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day.

⁴ I have no wrath.
If thorns and briers come against me in battle,
I will march against them;
I will burn them all together.

⁵ Or else let them lay hold of my protection;
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me."

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

⁷ Has he struck down his enemies as he struck those who struck him?
Or has he been slain as those he slew were slain?

⁸ By expulsion, by exile, you contended with them;
he removed them with his fierce wind
in the day of the east wind.

⁹ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
when he makes all the altar stones
like chalk stones crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

¹⁰ For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.

¹¹ When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
women come and make a fire with them.
For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

¹² In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates
to the Brook of Egypt,
and you will be gathered up one by one,
O people of Israel.

¹³ And in that day a great trumpet will be blown,
and those who were lost in the land of Assyria
and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt
will come and worship the LORD
on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.