27In that day the Lord will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.H3117H3068H7186H1419H2389H2719H6485H3882H1281H5175H3882H6129H5175H2026H8577H32202“In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard.H3117H6031H3754H2561H25313I, the Lord, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.H3068H5341H8248H7281H6485H5341H3915H31174My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up—H2534H5414H8068H7898H4421H6585H6702H31625unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.”H2388H4581H6213H7965H6213H79656The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit!H935H3290H8327H3478H6692H6524H4390H6440H8398H85707Has the Lord struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them?H5221H4347H5221H2026H2027H20268No, 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.H5432H7971H7378H1898H7186H7307H3117H69219The Lord did this to purge Israel’s wickedness, to take away all her sin. As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust. No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.H2063H5771H3290H3722H6529H5493H2403H7760H68H4196H1615H5310H842H2553H696510The fortified towns will be silent and empty, the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds. Calves will graze there, chewing on twigs and branches.H1219H5892H910H5116H7971H5800H4057H5695H7462H7257H3615H558511The 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.H7105H3001H7665H802H935H215H5971H998H6213H7355H3335H260312Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.H3117H3068H2251H7641H5104H5158H4714H3950H259H259H1121H347813In 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.H3117H1419H7782H8628H935H6H776H804H5080H776H4714H7812H3068H6944H2022H3389
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, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.H3117
