1 ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall visit punishment upon leviathan the fleeing serpent, and upon leviathan that serpent of double vision; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

2 I n that day sing ye unto the vineyard of the red wine.

In that day a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:

3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest the enemy visit it, I will keep it night and day.

I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.

4 F ury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would tread them down, I would burn them together.

Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.

5 O r who shall take hold of my strength? Make peace with me, yea, make peace with me.

Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: let him make peace with me.

6 D ays shall come when Jacob shall take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and the face of the world shall be filled with fruit.

In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 ¶ Has he been smitten as he who smote him? or has he been slain as those who slew him?

Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?

8 I n measure, she shall be chastised in her stalks: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 T herefore, in this manner shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this shall be all the fruit, the removal of his sin; when he shall return all the stones of the altar, as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder that they may not raise up the groves, or the images of the sun.

By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces,—the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.

10 O therwise the defenced city shall be made desolate, and the habitation shall be forsaken and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down and consume the branches thereof.

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.

11 W hen its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: women shall come and set them on fire: for this is not a people of understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.

When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.

12 A nd it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD shall smite from the channel of the river Euphrates unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye sons of Israel.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

13 A nd it shall come to pass in that day that the great shofar shall be blown, and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall come and worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

And it shall come to pass in that day, the great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.