1 Yahweh Will Deliver Israel In that day Yahweh will 27:1 Or visit, cf.26:14, 16, 21 punish 27:1 Or the sea monster Leviathan the fleeing serpent,With His fierce and great and 27:1 Lit strong mighty sword,Even 27:1 Or the sea monster Leviathan the twisted serpent;And He will kill the dragon wholivesin the sea.
2 ¶In that day,“A 27:2Some mss vineyard of wine vineyard of delight, sing of it!
3 “I, Yahweh, am its keeper;I water it every moment.Lest anyone 27:3 Lit punish damage it,I keep it night and day.
4 “I have no wrath.Who wouldevergive Me briarsandthorns in the battle?I would step on them, I would burn them 27:4Lit altogether completely.
5 “Or let him 27:5Lit take hold of rely on My strong defense,Let him make peace with Me,Let him make peace with Me.”
6 27:6Lit Those coming In the days to come Jacob will take root,Israel will blossom and bud,And they will fill the 27:6Lit face of whole world with produce.
7 ¶Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?Or like the slaughter of those of His who were killed, 27:7Lit he was slain have they been killed?
8 You contended with them 27:8Some ancient versions by exact measure by driving them away, by making them forlorn.With His fierce wind He has expelledthemon the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for;And this will be the whole fruit of the turning away of his sin:When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,When 27:9Wooden symbols of a female deity Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is isolated,A 27:10Lit pasture haunt 27:10Lit sent away forlorn and forsaken like the desert;There the calf will graze,And there it will lie down and 27:10Lit consume feed on its twigs.
11 When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;Women comeandlight a fire with them,For they are not a people of discernment,Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12 And it will be in that day,thatYahweh will startHisthreshing from the flowing stream of the 27:12The Euphrates River River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.
13 And it will be in that day,thata great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were banished in the land of Egypt will come and worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.