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In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strongsword shall punishleviathan the piercingserpent, even leviathan that crookedserpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
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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.
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Yet the defencedcity shall be desolate, and the habitationforsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calffeed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
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When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the womencome, 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.
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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 gatheredone by one, O ye children of Israel.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the greattrumpet 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 holymount at Jerusalem.