Isaiah 27

¹ That day, Yahweh will punish, with his hard sword, massive and strong, Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent: he will kill the sea-dragon.

² That day, sing of the delightful vineyard!

³ I, Yahweh, am its keeper; every moment I water it for fear its leaves should fall; night and day I watch over it.

⁴ I am angry no longer. If thorns and briars come I will declare war on them, I will burn them every one.

⁵ Or if they would shelter under my protection, let them make their peace with me, let them make their peace with me.

⁶ In the days to come, Jacob will put out shoots, Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷ Has he beaten her as he beat those who beat her? Has he murdered her as he murdered those who murdered her?

⁸ You have punished it with expulsion and exile; he pursued it with a blast as fierce as the wind from the east.

⁹ Now here is how Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, here is the ransom for its sin: he treats all the altar stones like lumps of chalk that are ground to powder. Sacred poles and solar pillars stand no longer,

¹⁰ for the fortified city is abandoned now, it lies deserted, forsaken as a wilderness. There the herd grazes, there it rests and browses on the branches.

¹¹ The boughs are dry and broken, women come and use them for firewood; for this is a nation without understanding and so its Maker will have no pity for it, he that shaped it will show it no favour.

¹² That day, Yahweh will start his threshing from the course of the River to the wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel.

¹³ That day, the great trumpet will be sounded, and those lost in the land of Assyria will come, and those exiled to the land of Egypt, and they will worship Yahweh on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.