[1] In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will
send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the
twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea. [2]
In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about
it. [3] I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I
will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it. [4] My
passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an
attack on them, and they would be burned up together. [5] Or let him put
himself under my power, and make peace with me. [6] In days to come Jacob
will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the
world will be full of fruit. [7] Is his punishment like the punishment of
those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put
to the sword? [8] Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her
away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east
wind. [9] So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the
fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are
crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be
put up again. [10] For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled
living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take
his rest, and its branches will be food for him. [11] When its branches are
dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for
it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy
on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them. [12] And it
will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the
River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O
children of Israel. [13] And it will be in that day that a great horn will
be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those
who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will
give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
