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Isaiah 27 :: New English Translation (NET)

Isa 27:1At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
Isa 27:2When that time comes, sing about a delightful vineyard!
Isa 27:3I, the LORD, protect it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day, so no one can harm it.
Isa 27:4I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire,
Isa 27:5unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.
Isa 27:6The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.
Isa 27:7Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?
Isa 27:8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
Isa 27:9So in this way Jacob's sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
Isa 27:10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.
Isa 27:11When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
Isa 27:12At that time the LORD will shake the tree, from the Euphrates River to the Stream of Egypt. Then you will be gathered up one by one, O Israelites.
Isa 27:13At that time a large trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in the land of Egypt. They will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
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