The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Isaiah 27
1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard
and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and
leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will
kill the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant
vineyard!
3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water
it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I
will keep it night and day.
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.
5 Or else let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me. Let him
make peace with me.”
6 In days to come, Jacob will take root.
Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill
the surface of the world with fruit.
7 Has he struck them as he struck those
who struck them? Or are they killed like
those who killed them were killed?
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.
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 Asherah poles
and the incense altars shall rise no more.
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.
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.
12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh
will thresh from the flowing stream of the
Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you
will be gathered one by one, children of
Israel.
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 Yahweh in the holy mountain at
Jerusalem.