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The Deliverance of Israel

¹ In that day ^(C1)the Lord will punish ^(C2)Leviathan the fleeing serpent
With His fierce and great and mighty sword rescuing Israel from her enemy,
Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And ^(C3)He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

² In that day it will be said of the redeemed nation of Israel,
"A ^(C1)vineyard of ^(F1)wine, sing in praise of it!

³ "I, the LORD, am its Keeper;
^(C1)I water it every moment.
So that no one will harm it,
I ^(C2)guard it night and day.

⁴ "I have no wrath.
Should anyone give Me ^(C1)briars and thorns in battle,
I would step on them, ^(C2)I would set them all on fire.

⁵ "Or let him (Israel) ^(C1)cling to My strength and rely on My protection My stronghold,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him ^(C2)make peace with Me."

^6 (F1)In the generations to come Jacob ^(C1)will take root;
Israel will ^(C2)blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the surface of the world with ^(C3)fruit. ^(VR1)

⁷ Like the striking ^(F1)by Him who has struck them, has ^(C1)He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

⁸ You contended with them by exile, by ^(C1)driving them away from Canaan;
He has expelled them with His fierce wind on the day of the ^(C2)east wind.

⁹ Therefore through this the wickedness the sin, the injustice, the wrongdoing of Jacob (Israel) will be ^(C1)atoned for and forgiven;
And this will be ^(F1)the full price that God requires for ^(C2)taking away his sin:
When Israel makes all the stones of the pagan ^(C3)altars like crushed chalk stones;
When the Asherim and the incense altars will not stand.

¹⁰ For the fortified city is ^(C1)isolated,
A settlement deserted and abandoned like the desert;
^(C2)There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and ^(F1)feed on its branches.

¹¹ When its ^(C1)branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and ^(F1)make a fire with them.
For they are not a people of ^(C2)understanding,
Therefore ^(C3)He who made them ^(C4)will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.

¹² In that day the LORD ^(C1)will thresh out His grain from the flowing stream of the ^(C2)River Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt, and you will be ^(C3)gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.¹³ It will come to pass in that day that a great ^(C1)trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost and perishing in the land of ^(C2)Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and ^(C3)worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem. ^(VR1)