God’s Blessings for Israel
1 On that day the Lord will punish 27:1 Or sea monsterLeviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even 27:1 Or sea monsterLeviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
2 On that day,
"A 27:2 Some mss a vineyard of winevineyard of beauty, sing of it!
3 "I, the Lord, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will 27:3 Lit punishdamage it,
I guard it night and day.
4 "I have no wrath.
Should 27:4 Lit whosomeone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, I would burn them 27:4 Lit altogethercompletely.
5 "Or let him 27:5 Lit take hold ofrely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him make peace with Me."
6 27:6 Lit Those coming In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the 27:6 Lit face of the worldwhole world with fruit.
7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, 27:7 Lit he was slainhave they been slain?
8 You contended with them 27:8 Some ancient versions by exact measureby banishing them, by driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be forgiven;
And this will be 27:9 Lit all the fruitthe full price of the 27:9 Lit removingpardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When27:9 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is isolated,
A 27:10 Lit pasturehomestead deserted and abandoned like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and 27:10 Lit consumefeed on its branches.
11 When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12 On that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel. 13 It will come about also on that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.