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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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In that daysing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine* .
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I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
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Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
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Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may makepeace with me; and he shall makepeace with me.
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He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root : Israel shall blossom and bud , and fill the face of the world with fruit.
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Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
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In measure, when it shooteth forth , thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his roughwind in the day of the east wind.
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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 .