Isaiah, Chapter 27

1. In that day the LORD with his mighty and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.    2. In that day sing to her, A vineyard of red wine.    3. I the LORD keep it; I will water it every moment: so that no one hurts it, I will keep it night and day.    4. Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.    5. Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.    6. He shall cause those who come from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.    7. Has he stricken him, as he struck those that struck him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of those who are slain by him?    8. In measure, when it shoots forth, you will contend with it: he restrains his rough wind in the day of the east wind.    9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be cleansed away; and this is all the result to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, the groves and images shall not stand again.    10. Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.    11. When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.    12. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat out the harvest from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.    13. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.