Isaiah 27

1In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which 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 Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

2In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.

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

2In that day [there shall be] a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:

3I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.

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

3I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.

4My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

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

4Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars [and] thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.

5Or let him put himself under my power, and 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 let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: [yea,] let him make peace with me.

6In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of 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.

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

7Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

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

7Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?

8Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his 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, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken [her] away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

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.

9By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, — the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.

10For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

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 fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.

11When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

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.

11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come [and] set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.

12And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O 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 in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, [ye] children of Israel.

13And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord 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 in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.