Isaiah - 28

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.

2 - In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

3 - I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

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.

5 - Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

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.

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?

8 - In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

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.

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.

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.

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 - .

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 - .