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 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 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.