ISAIAH 27 (NIV)
- In that day, the Lord will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will saly the monster of the sea.
- In that day - "Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
- I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
- I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.
- Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me."
- In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
- Has the Lord struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?
- By warfare and exile you contend with her - with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
- By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.
- The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the desert; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
- When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and makes fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
- In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Iraelites, will be gathered up one by one.
- And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
