Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,

Leviathan that twisted serpent;

And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.

“A vineyard of 27:2 So with MT (Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica), Bg., Vg.; MT (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), some Heb. mss., LXX delight; Tg. choice vineyardred wine!

I water it every moment;

Lest any hurt it,

I keep it night and day.

Who would set briers and thorns

Against Me in battle?

I would go through them,

I would burn them together.

That he may make peace with Me;

And he shall make peace with Me.”

Israel shall blossom and bud,

And fill the face of the world with fruit.

Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?

You contended with it.

He removes it by His rough wind

In the day of the east wind.

And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:

When he makes all the stones of the altar

Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,

27:9 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deitiesWooden images and incense altars shall not stand.

The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;

There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down

And consume its branches.

The women come and set them on fire.

For it is a people of no understanding;

Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them,

And He who formed them will show them no favor.

That the Lord will thresh,

From the channel of 27:12 The Euphratesthe River to the Brook of Egypt;

And you will be gathered one by one,

O you children of Israel.

The great trumpet will be blown;

They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,

And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt,

And shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.