The Book of Isaiah
27: 1In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish
leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the
monster that is in the sea. 27:2In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it. 27:3I
Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it
night and day. 27:4Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against
me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together. 27:5Or else let
him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make
peace with me. 27:6In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and
bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. 27:7Hath he smitten them as
he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of
them that were slain by them? 27:8In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou
dost content with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of
the east wind. 27:9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this
is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as
chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images
shall rise no more. 27:10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and
forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down,
and consume the branches thereof. 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they
shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people
of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon
them, and he that formed them will show them no favor. 27:12And it shall come to
pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River
unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of
Israel. 27:13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown;
and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that
were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy
mountain at Jerusalem.