1In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent , and leviathan the crooked serpent ; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea . 2In that day : A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it . 3I Jehovah am its keeper ; I will water it every moment : lest any hurt it , I will keep it night and day . 4Wrath is not in me : would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle ! I would march upon them , I would burn them together . 5Or else let him take hold of my strength , that he may make peace with me ; yea , let him make peace with me . 6In days to come shall Jacob take root ; Israel shall blossom and bud ; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit .
The Call to Repentance
7Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them ? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them ? 8In measure , when thou sendest them away , thou dost contend with them ; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind . 9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven , and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin : that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder , so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more . 10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken , like the wilderness : there shall the calf feed , and there shall he lie down , and consume the branches thereof . 11When the boughs thereof are withered , they shall be broken off ; the women shall come , and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them , and he that formed them will show them no favor .
The Future Hope of Israel
12And it shall come to pass in that day , that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt ; and ye shall be gathered one by one , O ye children of Israel . 13And it shall come to pass in that day , that a great trumpet shall be blown ; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt ; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem .