1 In that day theLordwith His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
# Leviathan that twisted serpent;
# And He will slaythe reptile thatisin the sea.
The Restoration of Israel
2 In that daysing to her,
# “A vineyard of red wine!
3 I, theLord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.
4 Furyisnot in Me.
# Who would setbriersandthorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take holdof My strength,
# Thathe maymake peace with Me;
Andhe shall make peace with Me.”
6 Those who come He shall causeto take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
8 In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
# He removesitby His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And thisisall the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.
10 Yet the fortified citywillbedesolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women comeandset them on fire.
# Foritisa people of no understanding;
# Therefore He who made them willnot have mercy on them,
# AndHe who formed them will show them no favor.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day
ThattheLordwill thresh,
From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt;
# And you will begathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.
13 So it shall be in that day:
# The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
# And they who are outcasts in the land ofEgypt,
# And shallworship theLordin the holy mount at Jerusalem.