Isaiah 27
1 On that day the LORD will punish with his hard, great, and mighty sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, Leviathan, the twisting serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
2 On that day: a delightful vineyard—sing about it!
3 I, the LORD, am its keeper; from moment to moment I water it. So that no one attacks it, I guard it night and day.
4 I have no fury. If only I had thorns and thistles to fight! I would march against them and burn them up all at once.
5 Or else let them seize my protection and make peace with me; let them make peace with me.
6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and sprout, and they will fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Did he strike him as he struck the one who struck him? Was he killed as those he killed were killed?
8 By measure, when sending her away, you contend with her; he drove her away with his harsh breath on the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore, in this way Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of removing his sin: he will make all the altar stones like crushed chalkstones, and the Asherah poles and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is isolated, a deserted pasture, abandoned like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, there it lies down and strips its branches bare.
11 When its branches dry up, they are broken off; women come and burn them. For this is not a people with understanding. Therefore its Maker will not have compassion on it, and its Creator will show it no favor.
12 On that day the LORD will thresh from the current of the river to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, people of Israel.
13 On that day a great trumpet will be sounded. Those lost in the land of Assyria and those driven out in the land of Egypt will come, and they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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