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Isaiah 27 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Deliverance of Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:2 - In that day— “Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:5 - Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:6 - In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:8 - By warfare[fn] and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles[fn] or incense altars will be left standing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:10 - The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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.
NIV Footnotes
See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
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