1In that day, Yahweh with his fierce and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea.
2In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!
3I, Yahweh, am its guardian. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will guard it night and day.
4Wrath is not in me, but if it produces briars and thorns for me, I would do battle! I would march against them and I would burn them together.
5Or else let him take hold of my protection. Let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me.”
6In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
8In measure, when you sent her away, you contended with her. He removed her with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this will be the full 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 Asherah poles and the incense altars will rise no more.
10For 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.
11When 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.
12And it will come to pass 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.
13And it will come to pass in that day that a great shofar will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt will come, and they will worship Yahweh on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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