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Isaiah 27 :: New International Version (NIV)

Deliverance of Israel

Isa 27:1In 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.
Isa 27:2In that day— “Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
Isa 27:3I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
Isa 27:4I 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.
Isa 27:5Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”
Isa 27:6In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
Isa 27:7Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?
Isa 27:8By warfare[fn] and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
Isa 27:9By 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.
Isa 27:10The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
Isa 27:11When 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.
Isa 27:12In 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.
Isa 27:13And 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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