Isaiah 27

Israel Rescued

¹On that day, Yahweh will punish with his cruel, great and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.

²On that day:

“A vineyard of beauty! Sing in praise of it!

³I, Yahweh, am her keeper; I water it again and again.[#Literally “by moments”]

⁴I have no wrath.[#Literally “There is no wrath for me”]

Whatever gives me thorns and briers,

I will step forth against in battle.

⁵Or let it grasp at my protection;

⁶Days are coming, let Jacob take root;[#Literally “The coming ones”]

⁷Does he strike him as he struck down those who struck him?[#Literally “like the striking of one striking him”]

⁸By expelling her, by her sending away, you argue with her.[#Meaning uncertain, derived from the following parallel expression]

⁹Therefore by this he will make atonement for the guilt of Jacob,

when he makes all the stones of the altar like crushed stones of chalk,

¹⁰For the fortified city is solitary,

the calf grazes there,

¹¹When its branches are dry, they are broken;[#Literally “In her branch being dry”]

women are coming and setting light to it.

For it is not a people of understanding;

therefore his maker will not have compassion on him,

¹²And this shall happen:

on that day, Yahweh will thresh from the floodwaters of the Euphrates to the wadi of Egypt, and as for you, you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel.

¹³And this shall happen:

on that day, a great trumpet will be blown,

and those who were lost in the land of Assyria will come,

and they will bow down to Yahweh on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.