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¹ On that day Adonai,
with his great, strong, relentless sword,
will punish Livyatan the fleeing serpent,
the twisting serpent Livyatan;
he will slay the sea monster.

² On that day, a pleasant vineyard —
sing about it!

³ "I, Adonai, guard it.
Moment to moment I water it.
So that no harm will come to it,
I guard it night and day.
⁴ I have no anger in me.
If it gives me briars and thorns,
then, as in war, I will trample it down
and burn it up at once;
⁵ unless it takes hold of my strength,
in order to make peace with me,
yes, to make peace with me."

⁶ The time is coming when Ya‘akov will take root;
Isra'el will bud and flower,
and fill the whole world with a harvest.
⁷ [Adonai] will not strike Isra'el,
as he did others who struck Isra'el;
he will not kill them,
as he did the others.
⁸ Your controversy with her is fully resolved
by sending her [into exile].
He removes her with a rough gust of wind
on a day when it's blowing from the east.
⁹ So the iniquity of Ya‘akov is atoned for by this,
and removing his sin produces this result:
he chops up all the altar stones like chalk —
sacred poles and sun-pillars stand no more.
¹⁰ For the fortified city is alone,
abandoned and deserted, like the desert.
Calves graze and lie down there,
stripping its branches bare.
¹¹ When its harvest dries up, it is broken off;
women come and set it on fire.
For this is a people without understanding.
Therefore he who made them will not pity them,
he who formed them will show them no mercy.

¹² On that day Adonai will beat out the grain
between the Euphrates River and the Vadi of Egypt;
and you will be gathered, one by one,
people of Isra'el!

¹³ On that day a great shofar will sound.
Those lost in the land of Ashur will come,
also those scattered through the land of Egypt;
and they will worship Adonai
on the holy mountain in Yerushalayim.