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OEB ISA Chapter 27

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27 When that comes, the Lord will punish,

with his fierce and great and mighty sword,

leviathan the fleeing serpent,

and leviathan the coiled serpent,

and the great sea-monster he will slay.

12 That day will the Lord beat out the grain

from the river Euphrates to the torrent of Egypt,

and you will be gleaned, one by one, sons of Israel.

13 That day, at the blast of a mighty trumpet,

the men who were lost in the land of Assyria,

and those who were outcast in Egypt’s land,

will come and bow down to the Lord in worship

on the holy Mount in Jerusalem.

Song of thanksgiving over the destruction of some proud city

25 The Lord, you are my God;

I exalt you, I praise your name:

for a marvellous thing you have done,

long purposed, now come to fulfilment.

2 You have made of a city a heap,

of a fortified city a ruin;

the palace of pride is a city no more,

it will not be rebuilt for ever.

3 For this will fierce nations own your glory,

the city of tyrants will fear you.

4 For unto the weak you have proved you a stronghold,

a stronghold were you to the poor in his straits –

a refuge from storm and a shadow from heat.

5 You subdued the voice of the proud,

and you humbled the song of the tyrant.

Song over the anticipated destruction of Moab

9 That day it will be said:

behold! This is our God,

for whom we have waited – to save us.

This is the Lord for whom we have waited,

O let us rejoice and be glad – he has saved us.

10 For here upon this mountain

the hand of the Lord will rest;

and Moab will be trampled

in the place whereon he stands,

as straw in a dung-pit is trampled,

11 should he spread forth his hands.

Song of gratitude and hope

Jerusalem secure: the proud city destroyed

26 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

a strong city is ours,

with bulwarks and walls

that he sets for our safety.

2 Open the gates,

that the righteous may enter

who keeps the faith.

3 The mind that is steady

you keeps in weal,

for it trusts in you.

4 Trust in the Lord

forevermore;

for the Lord God

is rock of ages.

5 For down he has cast

the dwellers on high,

the towering city,

abasing it to the ground,

and laying it low in the dust.

6 The foot will trample it –

the feet of the poor,

and the steps of the needy.

It is well with the righteous, ill with the persistently wicked

7 The path of the upright is even,

you smooth the way of the righteous.

8 We have looked for you, O Lord,

to come by your pathway of judgment;

we have yearned for a sign of your presence,

which men may remember for ever.

9 I have yearned for you in the night,

yea, with passionate spirit have sought you.

When your judgments come over the world,

those who dwell on the earth learn righteousness.

10 No grace will be shown to the wicked,

who righteousness will not learn,

but even in the land of truth

persist in their evil ways,

and are altogether blind

to the majesty of the Lord.

The utter destruction of the enemy

11 The Lord, your hand is uplifted,

but they are blind thereto;

may they see it, and be ashamed.

Let the fire, reserved for your foes,

and your zeal for your people consume them.

12 O Lord, establish our welfare;

for all that we have achieved

has been wrought for us by you.

13 O Lord who are our God,

lords other than yourself

have held us in their sway,

but your name alone will we praise.

14 The dead will not live again,

the shades will not arise;

you have visited them with destruction,

and blotted their memory clean.

A yet more glorious day

15 you have, O Lord, increased the nation,

enlarged all the bounds of the land,

and shown yourself most glorious.

16 In our straits, O Lord, we sought you;

we cried, because we were crushed,

your chastisement was upon us.

17 As a woman who is with child,

when she draws nigh her time,

does cry aloud in her pangs;

so were we, Lord, because of your presence.

18 For we, too, writhed in pangs,

but we brought forth nothing but wind.

We achieved for the land no deliverance;

the denizens of the world

fell not (in battle) before us.

19 Your dead will arise unto life,

they who dwell in the dust will awake,

and utter cries of joy;

for a dew (from the regions) of light is your dew,

and the earth (refreshed thereby)

will quicken the shades into life.

Song of the vineyard

2 In that day it will be said:

vineyard delightsome,

sing you of it.

3 I am its guardian – the Lord –

I water it moment by moment;

that no leaf of it will fail,

by day and by night I guard it.

4 I cherish no anger against it.

But had I the briers and thorns,

I would trample them down in the fray,

I would burn them up altogether.

5 Else, then, let them seek my protection,

and let them make peace with me;

yea, peace let them make with me.

6 That day will Jacob take root,

Israel will blossom and bud,

and with fruit fill the face of the world.

The Lord’s mercy to Israel

7 Has (Israel) been smitten so sorely

as those who smote her have been smitten?

Or has she been slain without remnant,

as those who slew her have been slain?

8 By dismissal and exile alone

does (the Lord) contend with her:

he has swept her away by his blast

that blows fierce in the day of sirocco.

9 On this condition therefore

will Israel’s guilt be forgiven –

when she puts away her sin

the issue thereof will be this –

that all the stones of her altars

she will grind, like chalk, to powder;

that sacred poles and sun-pillars

she never will raise again.

10 For the fortified city is desolate,

a homestead forsaken, forlorn,

like a pasture: there browses the calf –

there he lies, consuming the branches;

11 and there, when the dry boughs are broken,

come women who use them for fuel.

For the people would not reflect;

and so from their maker they win no pity,

no favour from their creator.

Warnings and promises to Jerusalem

Woe to Samaria