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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/26.htm" title="Isaiah 26">◄</a> Isaiah 27 <a href="../isaiah/28.htm" title="Isaiah 28">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29027" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn29027" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">The Judgment and Deliverance of Israel</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="sl1f"><span id="v29027001" class="ver">1</span>On that day,</p> <p class="sl">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will punish with his sword</p> <p class="sl1">that is cruel, great, and strong,</p> <p class="sl">Leviathan the fleeing serpent,</p> <p class="sl1">Leviathan the coiled serpent;</p> <p class="sl1">he will slay the dragon<a id="rfn29027001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29027001-1">*</a> in the sea.<a id="ren29027001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl1f"><span id="v29027002" class="ver">2</span><a id="rfn29027002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29027002-1">*</a> On that day—</p> <p class="sl">The pleasant vineyard, sing about it!<a id="ren29027002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29027003" class="ver">3</span>I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, am its keeper,</p> <p class="sl1">I water it every moment;</p> <p class="sl">Lest anyone harm it,</p> <p class="sl1">night and day I guard it.<a id="ren29027003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027003-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29027004" class="ver">4</span>I am not angry.</p> <p class="sl1">But if I were to find briers and thorns,</p> <p class="sl">In battle I would march against it;</p> <p class="sl1">I would burn it all.<a id="ren29027004-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027004-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29027005" class="ver">5</span>But if it holds fast to my refuge,</p> <p class="sl1">it shall have peace with me;<a id="ren29027005-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027005-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">it shall have peace with me.</p> <p class="slf"><span id="v29027006" class="ver">6</span>In days to come Jacob shall take root,</p> <p class="sl1">Israel shall sprout and blossom,</p> <p class="sl1">covering all the world with fruit.<a id="ren29027006-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027006-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29027007" class="ver">7</span><a id="rfn29027007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29027007-1">*</a> Was he smitten as his smiter was smitten?</p> <p class="sl1">Was he slain as his slayer was slain?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29027008" class="ver">8</span>Driving out and expelling, he struggled against it,</p> <p class="sl1">carrying it off with his cruel wind on a day of storm.<a id="ren29027008-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027008-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29027009" class="ver">9</span>This, then, shall be the expiation of Jacob’s guilt,</p> <p class="sl1">this the result of removing his sin:</p> <p class="sl">He shall pulverize all the stones of the altars</p> <p class="sl1">like pieces of chalk;</p> <p class="sl1">no asherahs or incense altars shall stand.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29027010" class="ver">10</span>For the fortified city shall be desolate,</p> <p class="sl1">an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness;</p> <p class="sl">There calves shall graze, there they shall lie down,</p> <p class="sl1">and consume its branches.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29027011" class="ver">11</span>When its boughs wither, they shall be broken off;</p> <p class="sl1">and women shall come to kindle fires with them.</p> <p class="sl">For this is not an understanding people;</p> <p class="sl1">therefore their maker shall not spare them;</p> <p class="sl1">their creator shall not be gracious to them.<a id="ren29027011-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29027011-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29027012" class="ver">12</span>On that day,</p> <p class="sl">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall beat out grain</p> <p class="sl1">from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,</p> <p class="sl1">and you shall be gleaned<a id="rfn29027012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29027012-1">*</a> one by one, children of Israel.</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29027013" class="ver">13</span>On that day,<a id="rfn29027013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29027013-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">A great trumpet shall blow,</p> <p class="sl1">and the lost in the land of Assyria</p> <p class="sl1">and the outcasts in the land of Egypt</p> <p class="sl">Shall come and worship the <span class="tetr">Lord</span></p> <p class="sl1">on the holy 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