1 I n that day His sharp and unrelenting, great, and strong sword will visit and punish Leviathan the swiftly fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting and winding serpent; and He will slay the monster that is in the sea.

In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that in the sea.

2 I n that day, A vineyard beloved and lovely; sing a responsive song to it and about it!

In that day, `A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,

3 I , the Lord, am its Keeper; I water it every moment; lest anyone harm it, I guard and keep it night and day.

I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!

4 W rath is not in Me. Would that the briers and thorns were lined up against Me in battle! I would stride in against them; I would burn them up together.

Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier -- a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

5 O r else, let them take hold of My strength and make complete surrender to My protection, that they may make peace with Me! Yes, let them make peace with Me!

Or -- he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.

6 I n the days and generations to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and send forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.

Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world increase.

7 H as smitten as He smote those who smote them? Or have been slain as their slayers were slain?

As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?

8 B y driving them out of Canaan, by exile, You contended with them in a measure —He removed them with His rough blast as in the day of the east wind.

In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

9 O nly on this condition shall the iniquity of Jacob (Israel) be forgiven and purged, and this shall be the full fruit for taking away his sin: that should make all the stones of the altars like chalk stones crushed to pieces, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall not remain standing or rise again.

Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this all the fruit -- To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not -- shrines and images.

10 F or the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, and there he lies down; he strips its branches and eats its twigs.

For the fenced city alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.

11 W hen its boughs are withered and dry, they are broken off; the women come and set them afire. For they are a people of no understanding or discernment— witless folk; therefore He Who made them will not have compassion on them, and He Who formed them will show them no favor.

In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

12 A nd it shall be in that day that the Lord will thresh out His grain from the flood of the River to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered one by one and one to another, O children of Israel!

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.

13 A nd it shall be in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and they will come who were lost and ready to perish in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt, and they will worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount -- in Jerusalem!