Isaiah 27

Deliverance of Israel 1In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword— his fierce, great and powerful sword— Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.

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

3I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.

4I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

5Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”

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

7Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?

8By warfare See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

9By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah or incense altars will be left standing.

10The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

11When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. 12In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. 13And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.