Isaiah 27

1In that day Yahweh will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, with his fierce and great and strong sword; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

2In that day: “A pleasant vineyard”—sing of it!

3I, Yahweh, am its keeper; I water it continually. Lest anyone punish it, I guard it night and day.

4I have no wrath. Who would set briers and thorns against me in battle? I would march against them; I would burn them up together.

5Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me; let him make peace with me.

6In days to come Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and flower, and they will fill the face of the world with fruit.

7Has he struck him as he struck the one who struck him? Or has he been killed as his slain were killed?

8By measure, when you sent her away, you contended with her; he drove her out with his fierce wind on the day of the east wind.

9Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like crushed chalkstones, the Asherah poles and incense altars will not stand.

10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and abandoned like the wilderness; there a calf grazes, and there it lies down and strips its branches bare.

11When its branches dry up, they are broken; women come and set them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore its Maker will not have compassion on it, and the one who formed it will show it no favor.

12And in that day Yahweh will thresh from the channel of the River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.

13And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those perishing in the land of Assyria and those driven away in the land of Egypt will come and worship Yahweh on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.