27:1 At that time ¹  the Lord will punish

with his destructive, ²  great, and powerful sword

Leviathan the fast-moving ³  serpent,

Leviathan the squirming serpent;

he will kill the sea monster. ⁴ 

27:2 When that time comes, ⁵ 

sing about a delightful vineyard! ⁶ 

27:3 I, the Lord, protect it; ⁷ 

I water it regularly. ⁸ 

I guard it night and day,

so no one can harm it. ⁹ 

27:4 I am not angry.

I wish I could confront some thorns and briers!

Then I would march against them ¹⁰  for battle;

I would set them ¹¹  all on fire,

27:5 unless they became my subjects ¹² 

and made peace with me;

let them make peace with me. ¹³ 

27:6 The time is coming when Jacob will take root; ¹⁴ 

Israel will blossom and grow branches.

The produce ¹⁵  will fill the surface of the world. ¹⁶ 

27:7 Has the Lord struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? ¹⁷ 

Has Israel been killed like their enemies? ¹⁸ 

27:8 When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; ¹⁹ 

he drives her away ²⁰  with his strong wind in the day of the east wind. ²¹ 

27:9 So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, ²² 

and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: ²³ 

They will make all the stones of the altars ²⁴ 

like crushed limestone,

and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand. ²⁵ 

27:10 For the fortified city ²⁶  is left alone;

it is a deserted settlement

and abandoned like the desert.

Calves ²⁷  graze there;

they lie down there

and eat its branches bare. ²⁸ 

27:11 When its branches get brittle, ²⁹  they break;

women come and use them for kindling. ³⁰ 

For these people lack understanding, ³¹ 

therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;

the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

27:12 At that time ³²  the Lord will shake the tree, ³³  from the Euphrates River ³⁴  to the Stream of Egypt. Then you will be gathered up one by one, O Israelites. ³⁵  27:13 At that time ³⁶  a large ³⁷  trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost ³⁸  in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in ³⁹  the land of Egypt. They will worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. ⁴⁰