Isaiah 27 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Isa 27:1

Isa 27:1In that day the LORD will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan,[fn] the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.

Isa 27:2

Isa 27:2“In that day,
sing about the fruitful vineyard.

Isa 27:3

Isa 27:3I, the LORD, will watch over it,
watering it carefully.
Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.

Isa 27:4

Isa 27:4My anger will be gone.
If I find briers and thorns growing,
I will attack them;
I will burn them up—

Isa 27:5

Isa 27:5unless they turn to me for help.
Let them make peace with me;
yes, let them make peace with me.”

Isa 27:6

Isa 27:6The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root.
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole earth with fruit!

Isa 27:7

Isa 27:7Has the LORD struck Israel
as he struck her enemies?
Has he punished her
as he punished them?

Isa 27:8

Isa 27:8No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
She was exiled from her land
as though blown away in a storm from the east.

Isa 27:9

Isa 27:9The LORD did this to purge Israel’s[fn] wickedness,
to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.

Isa 27:10

Isa 27:10The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
chewing on twigs and branches.

Isa 27:11

Isa 27:11The people are like the dead branches of a tree,
broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots.
Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
for its people have turned away from God.
Therefore, the one who made them
will show them no pity or mercy.

Isa 27:12

Isa 27:12Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River[fn] in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.

Isa 27:13

Isa 27:13In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the LORD on his holy mountain.

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NLT Footnotes

(27:1)

The identification of Leviathan is disputed, ranging from an earthly creature to a mythical sea monster in ancient literature.

(27:9)

Hebrew Jacob’s. See note on 14:1.

(27:12)

Hebrew the river.

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