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27 Á þeim degi mun Drottinn með hinu harða, mikla og sterka sverði sínu hegna Levjatan, hinum flughraða dreka, Levjatan, hinum bugðótta dreka, og bana sjóskrímslinu.

Á þeim degi skuluð þér kveða um hinn yndislega víngarð:

Ég, Drottinn, er vörður hans, ég vökva hann á hverri stundu. Ég gæti hans nótt og dag, til þess að enginn vinni þar spell.

Mér er ekki reiði í hug, en finni ég þyrna og þistla ræðst ég á þá og brenni þá til ösku _

nema menn leiti hælis hjá mér og gjöri frið við mig, gjöri frið við mig.

Á komandi tímum mun Jakob festa rætur, Ísrael blómgast og frjóvgast, og þeir munu fylla jarðarkringluna með ávöxtum.

Hefir Drottinn lostið lýðinn annað eins högg og það, er hann lýstur þá, sem lustu hann? Eða hefir Ísrael myrtur verið, eins og banamenn hans eru myrtir?

Með því að reka lýðinn frá þér, með því að láta hann frá þér, hegnir þú honum. Hann hreif hann burt með hinum hvassa vindi sínum, þegar austanstormurinn geisaði.

Þess vegna verður misgjörð Jakobs með því afplánuð og með því er synd hans algjörlega burt numin, að hann lætur alla altarissteinana verða sem brotna kalksteina, svo að asérurnar og sólsúlurnar rísa ekki upp framar.

10 Hin víggirta borg er komin í eyði, eins og mannauður og yfirgefinn áfangastaður í eyðimörkinni. Kálfar ganga þar á beit og liggja þar og bíta þar kvisti.

11 Þegar greinarnar þorna, eru þær brotnar, konur koma og kveikja eld við þær. Því að hún var óvitur þjóð, fyrir því getur hann, sem skóp hana, ekki verið henni miskunnsamur, og hann, sem myndaði hana, ekki verið henni líknsamur.

12 Á þeim degi mun Drottinn slá kornið úr axinu, allt í frá straumi Efrats til Egyptalandsár, og þér munuð saman tíndir verða einn og einn, Ísraelsmenn!

13 Á þeim degi mun blásið verða í mikinn lúður, og þá munu þeir koma, hinir töpuðu í Assýríu og hinir burtreknu í Egyptalandi, og þeir munu tilbiðja Drottin á fjallinu helga í Jerúsalem.

Deliverance of Israel

27 In that day,(A)

the Lord will punish with his sword(B)
    his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan(C) the gliding serpent,(D)
    Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster(E) of the sea.

In that day(F)

“Sing(G) about a fruitful vineyard:(H)
    I, the Lord, watch over it;
    I water(I) it continually.
I guard(J) it day and night
    so that no one may harm(K) it.
    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.(L)
Or else let them come to me for refuge;(M)
    let them make peace(N) with me,
    yes, let them make peace with me.”

In days to come Jacob will take root,(O)
    Israel will bud and blossom(P)
    and fill all the world with fruit.(Q)

Has the Lord struck her
    as he struck(R) down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
    as those were killed who killed her?
By warfare[a] and exile(S) you contend with her—
    with his fierce blast he drives her out,
    as on a day the east wind(T) blows.
By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned(U) for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:(V)
When he makes all the altar stones(W)
    to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles[b](X) or incense altars(Y)
    will be left standing.
10 The fortified city stands desolate,(Z)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken(AA) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,(AB)
    there they lie down;(AC)
    they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off(AD)
    and women come and make fires(AE) with them.
For this is a people without understanding;(AF)
    so their Maker has no compassion on them,
    and their Creator(AG) shows them no favor.(AH)

12 In that day the Lord will thresh(AI) from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt,(AJ) and you, Israel, will be gathered(AK) up one by one. 13 And in that day(AL) a great trumpet(AM) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled(AN) in Egypt(AO) will come and worship(AP) the Lord on the holy mountain(AQ) in Jerusalem.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

27 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.