27:1 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 slay the monster of the sea.
27:2 In that day–“Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
27:3 I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
27:4 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.
27:5 Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”
27:6 In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
27:7 Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?
27:8 By warfare and exile you contend with her–with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
27:9 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.
27:10 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.
27:11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make 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.
27:12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered up one by one.
27:13 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.
27:1 In that day Jehovah will punish, / With His harsh, great, and mighty sword, / Leviathan the fleeing serpent, / And leviathan the crooked serpent; / And He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
27:2 In that day: / A vineyard of wine, sing of it!
27:3 I, Jehovah, am its keeper; / Every moment I water it. / Lest anyone visit harm upon it, / By night and by day I guard it.
27:4 I have no wrath. / Oh that I had thorns and thistles! / In battle I would march against them; / I would burn them completely.
27:5 Or let him grasp at My strength; / Let him make peace with Me; / Let him make peace with Me.
27:6 In the days to come Jacob will take root; / Israel will blossom and bud; / And they will fill the surface of the world with their produce.
27:7 Has He struck them like those who struck them? / Have they been slain like those slain by Him?
27:8 By expulsion and by banishing them, You contended with them; / He sent them away with His harsh wind in the day of the east wind.
27:9 Thus by this the iniquity of Jacob will be expiated, / And this is all the fruit of the removal of their sin; / When they make all the stones of their altar / Like chalk stones beaten to powder ? / Asherahs and sun images will not stand.
27:10 For the fortified city is isolated; / The habitation is given up and abandoned like a wilderness. / There the calf will feed, / And there he will lie down and consume its branches.
27:11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; / Women come and make a fire with them; / For they are not a people of understanding. / Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them, / And He who formed them will not show favor to them.
27:12 And in that day Jehovah will beat out the grain from the flowing stream of / the River / Unto the brook of Egypt; / And you will be gleaned / One by one, O you children of Israel.
27:13 And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, / And the ones lost in the land of Assyria will come, / As well as the outcasts in the land of Egypt, / And they will worship Jehovah / On the holy mountain in Jerusalem.