1
In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
2
In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing you to it.
3
I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4
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
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yes], let him make peace with me.
6
In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit.
7
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?