Isaiah 27

¹ That day Yahweh wil punish, with his unyielding sword, massive and strong, Leviathan the fleeingserpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he wil kil that dragon that lives in the sea.

² That day, sing of the splendid vineyard!

³ I, Yahweh, am its guardian, from time to time I water it; so that no harm befal it, I guard it night andday.

⁴ -I do not have a wall. Who can reduce me to brambles and thorn-bushes? -I shal make war andtrample on it and at the same time burn it.

⁵ Or should they beg for my protection, let them make their peace with me, peace let them make withme.

⁶ In days to come, Jacob will take root, Israel wil bud and blossom and the surface of the world be onevast harvest.

⁷ Has he struck him as he was struck by those who struck him? Has he murdered him as he wasmurdered by those who murdered him?

⁸ By expel ing, by excluding him, you have executed a sentence, he has blown him away with a breathas rough as the east wind.

⁹ For that is how Jacob's guilt wil be forgiven, such wil be the result of renouncing his sin, when al thealtar-stones have been smashed to pieces like lumps of chalk, when the sacred poles and incense-altars standno longer.

¹⁰ For the fortified city is abandoned now, deserted, forsaken as a desert where calves browse, wherethey lie down, destroying its branches.

¹¹ When boughs go dry, they get burnt, women come and use them for firewood. Now, this is a peoplethat does not understand, and so its Maker wil not take pity on it, he who formed it wil not show it any mercy.

¹² When that day comes, Yahweh wil start his threshing from the course of the River to the Torrent ofEgypt, and you will be gathered one by one, Israelites!

¹³ When that day comes, the great ram's-horn will be sounded, and those lost in Assyria will come, andthose banished to Egypt, and they wil worship Yahweh on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.