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The Deliverance of Israel
1 In that day
Athe Loʀᴅ will punish
1BLeviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even
1Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And
CHe will kill the dragon who
lives in the sea.
2 In that day,
“A
1Avineyard of wine, sing of it!
3 “I, the Loʀᴅ, am its keeper;
AI water it every moment.
So that no one will
1damage it,
I
Bguard it night and day.
4 “I have no wrath.
Should
1someone give Me
Abriars
and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them,
BI would burn them
2completely.
5 “Or let him
1Arely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him
Bmake peace with Me.”
6 1In the days to come Jacob
Awill take root,
Israel will
Bblossom and sprout,
And they will fill the
2whole world with
Cfruit.
7 Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has
AHe struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain,
1have they been slain?
8 You contended with them
1by banishing them, by
Adriving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled
them on the day of the
Beast wind.
9 Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be
Aforgiven;
And this will be
1the full price of the
2Bpardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the
Caltar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When 3Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is
Aisolated,
A
1homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
BThere the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and
2feed on its branches.
11 When its
Alimbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of
Bdiscernment,
Therefore
Ctheir Maker
Dwill not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
12 In that day the Loʀᴅ
Awill start
His threshing from the flowing stream of the
BEuphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be
Cgathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.
13 It will come about also in that day that a great
Atrumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of
BAssyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and
Cworship the Loʀᴅ in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.