ISAIAH 27 [†]In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong  d sword will punish  e Leviathan the fleeing serpent,  e Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay  f the dragon that is in the sea.

2[†] In that day,

 g “A pleasant vineyard, [1]  h 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.

 i 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[^][†]  j In days to come [2] Jacob shall take root,

Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots

and fill the whole world with fruit.

7[†]  k Has he struck them  l as he struck those who struck them?

Or have they been slain  m as their slayers were slain?

8[†]  n Measure by measure, [3] by exile you contended with them;

 o he removed them with his fierce breath [4] in the day of the east wind.

9[†] Therefore by this  p the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,

and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: [5]

 q when he makes all the stones of the altars

like chalkstones crushed to pieces,

no  r Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

10[†]  s 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.

 t For 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  u from the river Euphrates [6] 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  v a great trumpet will be blown,  w and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt  x will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.