CHAPTER 27
In that
day
the LORD
will take His sharp,
great,
and mighty
sword,
and bring judgment
on
Leviathan,
the fleeing
serpent—
Leviathan,
the coiling
serpent—
and He will slay
the dragon
of the sea.
I,
the LORD,
am its keeper;
I water it continually.
I guard
it night
and day
so no one
can disturb it.
I am not
angry.
If only thorns
and briers
confronted Me,
I would march
and trample them,
I would burn them
to the ground.
Or
let them lay claim
to My protection;
let them make
peace with Me—
yes, let them make
peace with Me.”
In the days to come,
Jacob
will take root.
Israel
will bud
and blossom
and fill
the whole world
with fruit.
By warfare
and exile
You contended with her
and removed her
with a fierce
wind
like the day
of the east wind.
Therefore
Jacob’s
guilt
will be atoned for,
and the fruit
of the removal
of his sin
will be this:
When he makes
all
the altar
stones
like crushed
bits of chalk,
no
Asherah poles
or incense altars
will remain standing.
For
the fortified
city
will be deserted,
a homestead
abandoned
and forsaken
like a wilderness.
There
the calves
will graze,
and there
they will lie down
and strip
its branches bare.
When its limbs
are dry,
they will be broken off.
Women
will come
and use them for kindling,
for
they are
a people
without
understanding.
Therefore
their Maker
will have no
compassion on them,
and their Creator
will show them no
grace.
In that
day
the LORD
will thresh
from the flowing
Euphrates
to
the Wadi
of Egypt,
and you,
O Israelites,
will be gathered
one
by one.
And
in that
day
a great
trumpet
will sound,
and those who were perishing
in Assyria
will come forth
with those who were exiles
in Egypt.
And they will worship
the LORD
on the holy
mountain
in Jerusalem.