 1 In that day, the Lord with His great and fierce and strong sword will punish the sea monster, the darting serpent, the sea monster, that twisting serpent. He will kill the monster in the sea. 2 In that day, sing to her, a delightful vineyard. 3 I the Lord keep it; I will water it every moment. Lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me. Who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would step through it; I would burn it at once. 5 Let them take hold of my strength so that he may make peace with me and he will make peace with me. 6 He will cause those who come from Jacob to take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 7 Has He stricken him, as He struck those who struck Him? Is He slain according to the slaughter of the slain by Him? 8 By driving her away, you will contend with her. By sending her away, you punished her. He takes away by His rough wind, in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged. And this is all the fruit to take away his sin. When he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces, the Asherahs and sun pillars shall not stand up. 10 Yet the fortified city shall be wasted, and the dwelling forsaken and left like a wilderness. There shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and eat up its branches. 11 When its branches are dried up, they will be broken off. The women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore His maker will not have mercy on them and He who formed them will not favor them. 12 In that day, the Lord will thresh from the stream of the river Euphrates to the river of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, O children of Israel. 13 In that day, the great ram's horn will be blown and those perishing in the land of Assyria will come and the outcasts in the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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