Isaiah 27

1 In that day, the LORD with his fierce and great and mighty sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the serpent that is in the sea.NHEB — Isaiah 27:1

2 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard.NHEB — Isaiah 27:2

3 I, the LORD, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.NHEB — Isaiah 27:3

4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle. I would march on them and I would burn them together.NHEB — Isaiah 27:4

5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."NHEB — Isaiah 27:5

6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.NHEB — Isaiah 27:6

7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been killed as their killers were killed?NHEB — Isaiah 27:7

8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.NHEB — Isaiah 27:8

9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.NHEB — Isaiah 27:9

10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.NHEB — Isaiah 27:10

11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.NHEB — Isaiah 27:11

12 It will happen in that day, that the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream of the Perath to the Wadi of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.NHEB — Isaiah 27:12

13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.NHEB — Isaiah 27:13