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¹In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
⚓Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay ⚓the reptile that is in the sea.

The Restoration of Israel

²In that day ⚓sing to her,
⚓“A vineyard of red wine!
³⚓I, the Lord, keep it,
I water it every moment;
Lest any hurt it,
I keep it night and day.
⁴Fury is not in Me.
Who would set ⚓briers and thorns
Against Me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
⁵Or let him take hold ⚓of My strength,
That he may ⚓make peace with Me;
And he shall make peace with Me.”
⁶Those who come He shall cause ⚓to take root in Jacob;
Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.
⁷⚓Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
⁸⚓In measure, by sending it away,
You contended with it.
⚓He removes it by His rough wind
In the day of the east wind.
⁹Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.
¹⁰Yet the fortified city will be⚓desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
¹¹When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For ⚓it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will ⚓not have mercy on them,
And ⚓He who formed them will show them no favor.
¹²And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord will thresh,
From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt;
And you will be ⚓gathered one by one,
O you children of Israel.
¹³⚓So it shall be in that day:
⚓The great trumpet will be blown;
They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
And they who are outcasts in the land of ⚓Egypt,
And shall ⚓worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

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¹到那日，耶和華必用他堅硬銳利的大刀懲罰力威亞探⚓，就是那爬得快的蛇，懲罰力威亞探，就是那彎彎曲曲的蛇，並殺死海裏的大魚。

²當那日，你們要唱這美好⚓葡萄園的歌：
³「我－耶和華看守葡萄園，按時灌溉，
晝夜看守，免得有人損害。
⁴我心中不存憤怒。
惟願在戰爭中我有荊棘和蒺藜，
我就起步攻擊他，
把他一同焚燒；
⁵或者讓他緊靠我，以我為避難所，
與我和好，
與我和好。」

⁶將來雅各要扎根，
以色列要發芽開花，
果實遍滿地面。

⁷耶和華擊打以色列，
豈像擊打那些擊打他們的人嗎？
以色列被殺戮，
豈像其他人所遭遇的殺戮嗎？
⁸你驅趕他們，放逐他們，
與他們相爭。
在颳東風的日子，
他以暴風趕逐他們。
⁹所以，雅各的罪孽藉此得赦免，
除罪的效果盡在乎此；
他使祭壇的石頭變為粉碎的石灰，
使亞舍拉和香壇不再立起。
¹⁰因為堅固的城變為荒涼，
成了被撇棄的居所，像曠野一樣；
牛犢在那裏吃草，
在那裏躺臥，吃盡其中的樹枝。
¹¹它的枝條一枯乾，就被折斷，
婦女用以點火燃燒。
因為這百姓蒙昧無知，
所以，造他們的必不憐憫他們，
造成他們的也不施恩給他們。

¹²到那日， 以色列人哪，耶和華必像人打樹拾果一般，從大河的支流，直到埃及的溪谷，將你們一一收集。 ¹³當那日，號角大響；在亞述地將亡的，與被趕散至埃及地的，都要前來，在耶路撒冷聖山上敬拜耶和華。