Isaiah 27 Holman Christian Standard Bible

Leviathan Slain

27 On that day the Lord with His harsh, great, and strong sword, will bring judgment on Leviathan,^(A) the fleeing serpent—Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster that is in the sea.^(B)

The Lord’s Vineyard

²On that day
sing about a desirable vineyard:^(C)
³I, Yahweh, watch over it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.
⁴I am not angry,
but if it produces thorns and briers^(D) for Me,
I will fight against it, trample it,
and burn it to the ground.
⁵Or let it take hold of My strength;
let it make peace with Me—
make peace with Me.
⁶In days to come, Jacob will take root.^(E)
Israel will blossom and bloom^(F)
and fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷Did the Lord strike Israel
as He struck the one who struck Israel?^(G)
Was he killed like those killed by Him?
⁸You disputed with her
by banishing and driving her away.^[a]
He removed her with His severe storm
on the day of the east wind.
⁹Therefore Jacob’s iniquity^(H) will be purged in this way,
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:^(I)
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
¹⁰For the fortified city will be deserted,
pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.
¹¹When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.^(J)
Therefore their Maker^(K) will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

¹²On that day^(L)
the Lord will thresh grain from the Euphrates River
as far as the Wadi of Egypt,^(M)
and you Israelites will be gathered one by one.
¹³On that day
a great trumpet^(N) will be blown,
and those lost in the land of Assyria will come,
as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt;
and they will worship the Lord
at Jerusalem on the holy mountain.