Isaiah 27:1-13
27 In that day Jehovah,+ with his hard and great and strong sword,+ will turn his attention to Le·viʹa·than,*+ the gliding serpent,+ even to Le·viʹa·than, the crooked serpent, and he will certainly kill the sea monster+ that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing to her,+ YOU people: “A vineyard+ of foaming wine!*
3 I, Jehovah, am safeguarding her.+ Every moment I shall water her.+ In order that no one may turn his attention against her, I shall safeguard her even night and day.+
4 There is no rage that I have.+ Who will give me thornbushes+ [and] weeds in the battle? I will step on such. I will set such on fire at the same time.+
5 Otherwise let him take hold of my stronghold, let him make peace with me; peace let him make with me.”+
6 In the coming [days] Jacob will take root, Israel+ will put forth blossoms and actually sprout; and they will simply fill the surface of the productive land* with produce.+
7 As with the stroke of one striking him does one have to strike him? Or as with the slaughter* of his killed ones does he have to be killed?+
8 With a scare cry you will contend with her when sending her forth. He must expel [her] with his blast, a hard one in the day of the east wind.+
9 Therefore by this means the error of Jacob will be atoned for,+ and this is all the fruit [when] he takes away his sin,+ when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that have been pulverized, so that the sacred poles*+ and the incense stands will not rise up.+
10 For the fortified city will be solitary, the pasture ground will be left to itself and abandoned like a wilderness.+ There the calf will graze, and there it will lie down; and he will actually consume her boughs.+
11 When her sprigs have dried up, women coming in will break [them] off, lighting them up.+ For it is not a people of keen understanding.+ That is why its Maker will show it no mercy, and its own Former will show it no favor.+
12 And it must occur in that day that Jehovah will beat off [the fruit],+ from the flowing stream of the River*+ to the torrent valley of Egypt,+ and so YOU yourselves will be picked up one after the other,+ O sons of Israel.
13 And it must occur in that day that there will be a blowing on a great horn,*+ and those who are perishing in the land of As·syrʹi·a+ and those who are dispersed in the land of Egypt+ will certainly come and bow+ down to Jehovah in the holy mountain in Jerusalem.+
Footnotes
^ “Leviathan,” MSyVg; LXX, “the dragon.”
^ “Foaming wine.” AlCa(Heb.), cheʹmer; that is, fermenting wine.
^ Lit., “killing.”
^ Or, “the Asherim.”
^ That is, the Euphrates.
^ Or, “shofar.”
