Isaiah 27

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

2On that day, sing about a delightful vineyard:

3I, Yahweh, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will harm it, I guard it night and day.

4I have no wrath. If only there were briers and thorns to fight against me! I would march out against them in battle; I would burn them all up together.

5Or else let them take hold of my protection; let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.

6In days to come Jacob will take root; Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

7Has he struck Israel as he struck those who struck him? Or has he been killed as those who killed him were killed?

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

9Therefore by this Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of removing his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.

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

11When its twigs are dry, they are broken off; women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore the one who made them will not have compassion on them, and the one who formed them will show them no favor.

12On that day Yahweh will thresh out the grain from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, people of Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

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