The Tanakh · JPS 1917 Translation

Isaiah 27

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Nevi'im — the Prophets

Isaiah chapter 27 — part of the Nevi'im — the Prophets in the Jewish Bible. In the classic JPS 1917 translation it opens: “In that day HaShem with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will…” — the complete text of all 13 verses is below, free to read online.

1In that day HaShem with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

2In that day sing ye of her: 'A vineyard of foaming wine!'

3I HaShem do guard it, I water it every moment; lest Mine anger visit it, I guard it night and day.

4Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame! I would with one step burn it altogether.

5Or else let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; yea, let him make peace with Me.

6In days to come shall Jacob take root, Israel shall blossom and bud; and the face of the world shall be filled with fruitage.

7Hath He smitten him as He smote those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him?

8In full measure, when Thou sendest her away, Thou dost contend with her; He hath removed her with His rough blast in the day of the east wind.

9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be expiated, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof

11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them will not have compassion upon them, and He that formed them will not be gracious unto them.

12And it shall come to pass in that day, that HaShem will beat off His fruit from the flood of the River unto the Brook of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great horn shall be blown; and they shall come that were lost in the land of Assyria, and they that were dispersed in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship HaShem in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

13 verses · JPS 1917 (public domain)

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