Isaiah 27

1In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

1On that day, the LORD will use his fierce, massive, and powerful sword to punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent—Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will kill the great monster that lives in the sea.

2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it.

2In that day, people will sing about a beautiful vineyard.

3I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

3I, the LORD, am the one who watches over it; I water it constantly. I guard it day and night so that no one can damage it.

4Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

4I am no longer angry. If I found thorns and thistles in my way, I would march against them and burn them all up.

5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

5But if they want protection, let them come to me for safety. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.

6In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

6In the future, the descendants of Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom, and they will fill the whole world with their fruit.

7Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?

7Has the LORD struck Israel as hard as he struck those who attacked them? Has he killed them the same way he killed their enemies?

8In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

8No, you punished them with exile, dealing with them carefully. He drove them away with his fierce roar, like a scorching wind from the east.

9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

9So, Jacob’s guilt will be washed away in this way—and this is how his sin will be removed: he will crush all the stones of the pagan altars into pieces of chalk, so that no poles dedicated to Asherah or incense altars are left standing.

10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

10The fortified city stands empty now. It is a deserted home, abandoned like a wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down and eat the branches of the bushes.

11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

11When the branches are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for firewood. These people have no understanding, so their Creator will not show them mercy; the one who formed them will show them no favor.

12And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

12In that day, the LORD will harvest his grain from the flowing Euphrates River all the way to the Brook of Egypt. You, the people of Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

13In that day, a great trumpet will blast. Those who were dying in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come back. They will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.