Isaiah 27:1–9
1In that day, the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.↗
2In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!↗
3I, the LORD, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.↗
4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.↗
5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”↗
6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.↗
7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?↗
8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.↗
9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.↗
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