Isaiah 27

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 [there shall be] a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:

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

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 take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: [yea,] let him make peace with me.

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

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?

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.

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 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 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.