Isaiah
27
- In that day, the LORD will punish with his
sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.
- In that day -- "Sing about a fruitful
vineyard:
- I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually.
I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
- I am not angry. If only there were briers
and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set
them all on fire.
- Or else let them come to me for refuge; let
them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me."
- In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel
will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
- Has the LORD struck her as he struck down
those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed
her ?
- By warfare and exile you contend with her--with
his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
- By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned
for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin: When he
makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah
poles or incense altars will be left standing.
- The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned
settlement, forsaken like the desert; there the calves graze, there they lie
down; they strip its branches bare.
- When its twigs are dry, they are broken off
and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding;
so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no
favor.
- In that day the LORD will thresh from the
flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered
up one by one.
- And in that day a great trumpet will sound.
Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will
come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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