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The Deliverance of Israel
In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
In that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.
I, the LORD, will watch over it,
watering it carefully.
Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
watering it carefully.
Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
“I, the LORD, am its keeper;
I water it every moment.
So that no one will damage it,
I guard it night and day.
I water it every moment.
So that no one will damage it,
I guard it night and day.
My anger will be gone.
If I find briers and thorns growing,
I will attack them;
I will burn them up —
If I find briers and thorns growing,
I will attack them;
I will burn them up —
“I have no wrath.
Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.
Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.
unless they turn to me for help.
Let them make peace with me;
yes, let them make peace with me.”
Let them make peace with me;
yes, let them make peace with me.”
“Or let him rely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him make peace with Me.”
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him make peace with Me.”
The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root.
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole earth with fruit!
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill the whole earth with fruit!
In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the whole world with fruit.
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the whole world with fruit.
Has the LORD struck Israel
as he struck her enemies?
Has he punished her
as he punished them?
as he struck her enemies?
Has he punished her
as he punished them?
Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?
No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
She was exiled from her land
as though blown away in a storm from the east.
She was exiled from her land
as though blown away in a storm from the east.
You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.
Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven;
And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
chewing on twigs and branches.
the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
Calves will graze there,
chewing on twigs and branches.
For the fortified city is isolated,
A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.
A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.
The people are like the dead branches of a tree,
broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots.
Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
for its people have turned away from God.
Therefore, the one who made them
will show them no pity or mercy.
broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots.
Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
for its people have turned away from God.
Therefore, the one who made them
will show them no pity or mercy.
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.
In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the LORD on his holy mountain.
It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.