Isaiah Chapter 27 (NIV)
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Deliverance of IsraelIn 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.
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In that day—“Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
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I, the Lord, watch over it;I water it continually.I guard it day and nightso that no one may harm it.
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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.
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Or else let them come to me for refuge;let them make peace with me,yes, let them make peace with me.”
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In days to come Jacob will take root,Israel will bud and blossomand fill all the world with fruit.
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Has the Lord struck heras he struck down those who struck her?Has she been killedas those were killed who killed her?
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By warfare and exile you contend with her—with his fierce blast he drives her out,as on a day the east wind blows.
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By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for,and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin:When he makes all the altar stonesto be like chalk stones crushed to pieces,no Asherah poles or incense altarswill be left standing.
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The fortified city stands desolate,an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the desert;there the calves graze,there they lie down;they strip its branches bare.
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When its twigs are dry, they are broken offand 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.
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In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered up one by one.
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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.
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