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.
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