1 In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will
punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he
will kill the monster that is in the sea. 2 In that day: A vineyard of
wine, sing you to it. 3 I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every
moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Wrath is not in
me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march
on them, I would burn them together. 5 Or else let him take hold of my
strength, that he may make peace with me; yes, let him make peace
with me. 6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and
bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit. 7 Has he
struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according
to the slaughter of those who were slain by them? 8 In measure, when you
send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed them with
his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9 Therefore by this shall the
iniquity of Jacob 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 sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise
no more. 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and
forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he
lie down, and consume the branches of it. 11 When the boughs of it 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 who made them will
not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will beat off his
fruit from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you
shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel. 13 It shall
happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come
who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts
in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at
Jerusalem.
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