[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 content 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.
