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Hebrew Names Version HNV
1 In that day the LORD will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
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In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish livyatan the swift serpent, and livyatan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
2 “In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard.
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In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you to it.
3 I, the LORD, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
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I the LORD am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up—
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Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.
5 unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.”
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Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make shalom with me; [yes], let him make shalom with me.
6 The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit!
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In days to come shall Ya`akov take root; Yisra'el shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit.
7 Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them?
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Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?
8 No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account. She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east.
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In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
9 The LORD did this to purge Israel’s wickedness, to take away all her sin. As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust. No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.
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Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Ya`akov be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
10 The fortified towns will be silent and empty, the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds. Calves will graze there, chewing on twigs and branches.
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For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it.
11 The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy.
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When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
12 Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.
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It shall happen in that day, that the LORD will beat off [his fruit] from the flood of the River to the brook of Mitzrayim; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Yisra'el.
13 In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the LORD on his holy mountain.
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It shall happen in that day, that a great shofar shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Ashshur, and those who were outcasts in the land of Mitzrayim; and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Yerushalayim.
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