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In that day the LORD will punishLeviathan the fleeingserpent, With His fierce and great and mightysword, EvenLeviathan the twistedserpent; And He will kill the dragonwho lives in the sea.
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Therefore through thisJacob'siniquity will be forgiven; And this will be the fullprice of the pardoning of his sin: When he makesall the altarstones like pulverizedchalkstones; When Asherim and incensealtars will not stand.
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For the fortifiedcity is isolated, A homesteadforlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will liedown and feed on its branches.
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When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Womencome and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore* their Maker will not havecompassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
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In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowingstream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.
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It will come about also in that day that a greattrumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the holymountain at Jerusalem.