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.

1In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword--the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan--a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan--a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that <FI>is<Fi> in the sea.

1In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

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

2In that day, `A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,

2In that day there shall be singing to the vineyard of pure wine.

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

3I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!

3I am the Lord that keep it, I will suddenly give it drink: lest any hurt come to it, I keep it night and day.

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.

4Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier--a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

4There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

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

5Or--he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.

5Or rather shall it take hold of my strength, shall it make peace with me, shall it 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.

6Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world <FI>with<Fi> increase.

6When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

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?

7As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?

7Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?

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.

8In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

8In measure against measure, when it shall be cast off, thou shalt judge it. He hath meditated with his severe spirit in the day of heat.

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.

9Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this <FI>is<Fi> all the fruit--To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not--shrines and images.

9Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

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.

10For the fenced city <FI>is<Fi> alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.

10For the strong city shall be desolate, the beautiful city shall be forsaken, and shall be left as a wilderness: there the calf shall feed, and there shall he lie down, and shall consume its branches.

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.

11In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it <FI>is<Fi> not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

11Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

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.

12And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.

12And it shall come to pass, that in that day the Lord will strike from the channel of the river even to the torrent of Egypt, and you shall be gathered together one by one, O ye children of Israel.

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.

13And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount--in Jerusalem!

13And it shall come to pass, that in that day a noise shall be made with a great trumpet, and they that were lost, shall come from the land of the Assyrians, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord in the holy mount in Jerusalem.