27:1 In that day God shall bring [his] holy
and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees,
upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.
27:2 In that day [there shall be] a fair vineyard, [and] a desire to
commence [a song] concerning it.
27:3 I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it
shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.
27:4 There is no woman that has not taken hold of it; who will set me to
watch stubble in the field? because of this enemy I have set her aside;
therefore on this account the Lord has done all that he appointed.
27:5 I am burnt up; they that dwell in her shall cry, Let us make peace with
him, let us make peace,
27:6 they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and
blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.
27:7 Shall he himself be thus smitten, even as he smote? and as he slew,
shall he be thus slain?
27:8 Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; didst thou not meditate
with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?
27:9 Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his
blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken
to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall
not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.
27:10 The flock that dwelt [there] shall be left, as a deserted flock; and
[the ground] shall be for a long time for pasture, and there shall flocks
lie down to rest.
27:11 And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of [the
grass] being parched. Come hither, ye woman that come from a sight; for it
is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no
pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy [upon them].
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day [that] God shall fence [men] off
from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but do ye gather one by
one the children of Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day [that] they shall blow the great
trumpet, and the lost ones in the land of the Assyrians shall come, and the
lost ones in Egypt, and shall worship the Lord on the holy mountain in
Jerusalem. |
27:1 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.
27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
27:3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it,
I will keep it night and day.
27:4 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.
27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me;
and he shall make peace with me.
27:6 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.
27:7 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?
27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he
stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
27:9 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.
27:10 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.
27:11 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.
27:12 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.
27:13 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. |