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Isaiah 27

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.

3 I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.

4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

5 Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.

6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

7 Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

8 Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

12 And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.

13 And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Good News Translation GNT

1 On that day the Lord will use his powerful and deadly sword to punish Leviathan, that wriggling, twisting dragon, and to kill the monster that lives in the sea.

2 On that day the Lord will say of his pleasant vineyard,

3 "I watch over it and water it continually. I guard it night and day so that no one will harm it.

4 I am no longer angry with the vineyard. If there were thorns and briers to fight against, I would burn them up completely.

5 But if the enemies of my people want my protection, let them make peace with me. Yes, let them make peace with me."

6 In the days to come the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, will take root like a tree, and they will blossom and bud. The earth will be covered with the fruit they produce.

7 Israel has not been punished by the Lord as severely as its enemies nor lost as many people.

8 The Lord punished his people by sending them into exile. He took them away with a cruel wind from the east.

9 But Israel's sins will be forgiven only when the stones of pagan altars are ground up like chalk, and no more incense altars or symbols of the goddess Asherah are left.

10 The fortified city lies in ruins. It is deserted like an empty wilderness. It has become a pasture for cattle, where they can rest and graze.

11 The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

12 On that day, from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border, the Lord will gather his people one by one, as threshing separates the wheat from the chaff.

13 When that day comes, a trumpet will be blown to call back from Assyria and Egypt all the Israelites who are in exile there. They will come and worship the Lord in Jerusalem, on his sacred hill.