Isaiah 27
Open in the reader1In that day He-Who-Is will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on The-Twisting-Serpent the fleeing serpent —The-Twisting-Serpent the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the Sea.
2In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
3I, He-Who-Is, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
5Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me— yes, let them make peace with Me.”
6In the days to come, Heel-Grabber will take root. Strives-with-God will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
7Has He-Who-Is struck Strives-with-God as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
9Therefore Heel-Grabber’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: 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 lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
12In that day He-Who-Is will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Two-Straits, and you, O children of Strives-with-God, will be gathered one by one.
13And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Successful will come forth with those who were exiles in Two-Straits. And they will worship He-Who-Is on the devoted mountain in Foundation-of-Peace.