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.
02 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of
red wine.
03 I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every
moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night
and day.
04 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.
05 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he
may make peace with me; and he shall make peace
with me.
06 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.
07 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?
08 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt
debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the
day of the east wind.
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09 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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