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1 On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
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In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
2 On that day: A pleasant vineyard, sing about it!
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In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper; every moment I water it. I guard it night and day so that no one can harm it;
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I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.
4 I have no wrath. If it gives me thorns and briers, I will march to battle against it. I will burn it up.
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My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
5 Or else let it cling to me for protection, let it make peace with me, let it make peace with me.
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Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.
6 In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.
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In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
7 Has he struck them down as he struck down those who struck them? Or have they been killed as their killers were killed?
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Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?
8 By expulsion, by exile you struggled against them; with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.
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Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.
9 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no sacred poles or incense altars will remain standing.
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So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calves graze there, there they lie down, and strip its branches.
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For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he that made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.
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When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
12 On that day the Lord will thresh from the channel of the Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one, O people of Israel.
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And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.
13 And on that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
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