Isaiah 27
God’s Blessings for Israel
1 On that day athe Lord will punish ▼
▼Or sea monster
cLeviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even ▼
▼Or sea monster
Leviathan the twisted serpent; And eHe will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
2 On that day,
“A ▼
▼Some mss a vineyard of wine
gvineyard of beauty, sing of it! 3 “I, the Lord, am its keeper;
hI water it every moment.
So that no one will ▼
▼Lit punish
damage it, I jguard it night and day.
4 “I have no wrath.
Should ▼
▼Lit who
someone give Me lbriars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, mI would burn them ▼
▼Lit altogether
completely. 5 “Or let him ▼
▼Lit take hold of
prely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me,
Let him qmake peace with Me.”
6 ▼
▼Lit Those coming
In the days to come Jacob swill take root, Israel will tblossom and sprout,
And they will fill the ▼
▼Lit face of the world
whole world with vfruit. 7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has wHe struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, ▼
▼Lit he was slain
have they been slain? 8 You contended with them ▼
▼Some ancient versions by exact measure
by banishing them, by zdriving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the aaeast wind.
9 Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be abforgiven;
And this will be ▼
▼Lit all the fruit
the full price of the ▼▼Lit removing
aepardoning of his sin: When he makes all the afaltar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When ▼
▼I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
Asherim and incense altars will not stand. 10 For the fortified city is ahisolated,
A ▼
▼Lit pasture
homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert; ajThere the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and ▼
▼Lit consume
feed on its branches. 11 When its allimbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of amdiscernment,
Therefore antheir Maker aowill not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them. 12 On that day the Lord apwill thresh from the flowing stream of the aqEuphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be argathered up one by one, you sons of Israel. 13It will come about also on that day that a great astrumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of atAssyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and auworship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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