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27:1  In that day the LORD will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
27:2  "In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard.
27:3  I, the LORD, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
27:4  My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up--
27:5  unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me."
27:6  The time is coming when Jacob's descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit!
27:7  Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them?
27:8  No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account. She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east.
27:9  The LORD did this to purge Israel's wickedness, to take away all her sin. As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust. No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.
27:10  The fortified towns will be silent and empty, the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds. Calves will graze there, chewing on twigs and branches.
27:11  The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy.
27:12  Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them--from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.
27:13  In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the LORD on his holy mountain.