Isaiah 27

The Redemption of Israel

1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong *[Jer. 47:6] sword will punish *Ps. 74:14Leviathan the fleeing serpent, *Ps. 74:14Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay *ch. 51:9;Ezek. 29:3the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day,

*ch. 5:7"A pleasant vineyard,*27:2 Many Hebrew manuscripts A vineyard of wine*[ch. 26:1]sing of it!

3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;

every moment I water it.

Lest anyone punish it,

I keep it night and day;

4 I have no wrath.

*[ch. 10:17]Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!

I would march against them,

I would burn them up together.

5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,

let them make peace with me,

let them make peace with me."

6 *ch. 37:31;Hos. 14:5,6In days to come*27:6 Hebrew In those to come Jacob shall take root,

Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots

and fill the whole world with fruit.

7 *Hos. 6:1,2Has he struck them *See ch. 37:36-38as he struck those who struck them?

Or have they been slain *ch. 37:18,19as their slayers were slain?

8 *[Jer. 10:24] Measure by measure,*27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain by exile you contended with them;

*[Jer. 18:17]he removed them with his fierce breath*27:8 Or wind in the day of the east wind.

9 Therefore by this *[ch. 22:14] the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,

and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:*27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin

*[2 Kgs. 18:4] when he makes all the stones of the altars

like chalkstones crushed to pieces,

no *See Deut. 16:21Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

10 *ch. 17:9;32:14,19;[Hos. 8:14;Mic. 5:11]For the fortified city is solitary,

a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;

there the calf grazes;

there it lies down and strips its branches.

11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;

women come and make a fire of them.

*Deut. 32:28;See ch. 30:16-18For this is a people without discernment;

therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;

he who formed them will show them no favor.

12 In that day *See Gen. 15:18from the river Euphrates*27:12 Hebrew from the River to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 13 And in that day *Lev. 25:9;[Matt. 24:31;Rev. 11:15] a great trumpet will be blown, *ch. 11:11,16;Mic. 7:12and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt *[ch. 2:2]will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.