Isaiah 27
27IN THAT day [the Lord will deliver Israel from her enemies and also from the rebel powers of evil and darkness] His sharp {and} unrelenting, great, and strong sword will visit {and} punish Leviathan the swiftly fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting {and} winding serpent; and He will slay the monster that is in the sea.H3117H3068H7186H1419H2389H2719H6485H3882H1281H5175H3882H6129H5175H2026H8577H32202In that day [it will be said of the redeemed nation of Israel], A vineyard beloved {and} lovely; sing a responsive song to it {and} about it!H3117H6031H3754H2561H25313I, the Lord, am its Keeper; I water it every moment; lest anyone harm it, I guard {and} keep it night and day.H3068H5341H8248H7281H6485H5341H3915H31174Wrath is not in Me. Would that the briers {and} thorns [the wicked internal foe] were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together.H2534H5414H8068H7898H4421H6585H6702H31625Or else [if all Israel would escape being burned up together there is but one alternative], let them take hold of My strength {and} make complete surrender to My protection, that they may make peace with Me! Yes, let them make peace with Me!H2388H4581H6213H7965H6213H79656In the days {and} generations to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and send forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit [of the knowledge of the true God].H935H3290H8327H3478H6692H6524H4390H6440H8398H85707Has [the Lord] smitten [Israel] as He smote those who smote them? Or have [the Israelites] been slain as their slayers were slain?H5221H4347H5221H2026H2027H20268By driving them out of Canaan, by exile, You contended with them in a measure [O Lord]--He removed them with His rough blast as in the day of the east wind.H5432H7971H7378H1898H7186H7307H3117H69219Only on this condition shall the iniquity of Jacob (Israel) be forgiven {and} purged, and this shall be the full fruit [God requires] for taking away his sin: that [Israel] should make all the stones of the [idol] altars like chalk stones crushed to pieces, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall not remain standing {or} rise again.H2063H5771H3290H3722H6529H5493H2403H7760H68H4196H1615H5310H842H2553H696510For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, and there he lies down; he strips its branches {and} eats its twigs.H1219H5892H910H5116H7971H5800H4057H5695H7462H7257H3615H558511When its boughs are withered {and} dry, they are broken off; the women come {and} set them afire. For they are a people of no understanding {or} discernment--{witless folk}; therefore He Who made them will not have compassion on them, and He Who formed them will show them no favor.H7105H3001H7665H802H935H215H5971H998H6213H7355H3335H260312And it shall be in that day that the Lord will thresh out His grain from the flood of the River [Euphrates] to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one {and} one to another, O children of Israel!H3117H3068H2251H7641H5104H5158H4714H3950H259H259H1121H347813And it shall be in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and they will come who were lost {and} ready to perish in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt, and they will worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.H3117H1419H7782H8628H935H6H776H804H5080H776H4714H7812H3068H6944H2022H3389
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