God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom.

27:1 In that day,
Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan,
the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent;
and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

27:2 In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

27:3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment.
Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns,
I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

27:5 Or else let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

27:6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud.
They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

27:7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

27:8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them.
He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

27:9 Therefore, by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven,
and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones
of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces,
so that the Asherim and the incense altars shall rise no more.

27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken,
like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

27:11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off.
The women will come and set them on fire,
for they are a people of no understanding.
Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them,
and he who formed them will show them no favor.

27:12 It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh
from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt;
and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

27:13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown;
and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria,
and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come;
and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.