27:1 In 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.
27:2 In that day - “Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
27:3 I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
27:4 I 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.
27:5 Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”
27:6 In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
27:7 Has the Lord struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?
27:8 By warfare* and exile you contend with her - with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows. / *See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
27:9 By 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* or incense altars will be left standing. / *That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah
27:10 The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
27:11 When 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.
27:12 In 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.
27:13 And 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.