27:1 On that day the LORD will punish ①Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even ②Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
▷ ①Or sea monster ②Or sea monster
27:2 On that day,
“A ①vineyard of beauty, sing of it!
▷ ①Some mss a vineyard of wine
27:3 I, the LORD, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will ①damage it,
I guard it night and day.
▷ ①Lit punish
27:4 I have no wrath.
Should ①someone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, I would burn them ②completely.
▷ ①Lit who ②Lit altogether
27:5 Or let him ①rely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him make peace with Me.”
▷ ①Lit take hold of
27:6 ①In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the ②whole world with fruit.
▷ ①Lit Those coming ②Lit face of the world
27:7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, ①have they been slain?
▷ ①Lit he was slain
27:8 You contended with them ①by banishing them, by driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.
▷ ①Some ancient versions by exact measure
27:9 Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be forgiven;
And this will be ①the full price of the ②pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When ③Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
▷ ①Lit all the fruit ②Lit removing ③I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)
27:10 For the fortified city is isolated,
A ①homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and ②feed on its branches.
▷ ①Lit pasture ②Lit consume
27:11 When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make 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.
27:12 On that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel.
27:13 It will come about also on that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.