Isaiah, 27
1. That day Yahweh will punish, with his unyielding sword, massive and strong, Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will kill that dragon that lives in the sea.
1. In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2. That day, sing of the splendid vineyard!
2. In that day: "A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!
3. I, Yahweh, am its guardian, from time to time I water it; so that no harm befall it, I guard it night and day.
3. I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest any one harm it, I guard it night and day;
4. -I do not have a wall. Who can reduce me to brambles and thorn-bushes? -I shall make war and trample on it and at the same time burn it.
4. I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.
5. Or should they beg for my protection, let them make their peace with me, peace let them make with me.
5. Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me."
6. In days to come, Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and the surface of the world be one vast harvest.
6. In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.
7. Has he struck him as he was struck by those who struck him? Has he murdered him as he was murdered by those who murdered him?
7. Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
8. By expelling, by excluding him, you have executed a sentence, he has blown him away with a breath as rough as the east wind.
8. Measure by measure, by exile thou didst contend with them; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.
9. For that is how Jacob's guilt will be forgiven, such will be the result of renouncing his sin, when all the altar-stones have been smashed to pieces like lumps of chalk, when the sacred poles and incense-altars stand no longer.
9. Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Ashe'rim or incense altars will remain standing.
10. For the fortified city is abandoned now, deserted, forsaken as a desert where calves browse, where they lie down, destroying its branches.
10. For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, there he lies down, and strips its branches.
11. When boughs go dry, they get burnt, women come and use them for firewood. Now, this is a people that does not understand, and so its Maker will not take pity on it, he who formed it will not show it any mercy.
11. When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.
12. When that day comes, Yahweh will start his threshing from the course of the River to the Torrent of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, Israelites!
12. In that day from the river Euphra'tes to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.
13. When that day comes, the great ram's-horn will be sounded, and those lost in Assyria will come, and those banished to Egypt, and they will worship Yahweh on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.
13. And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
