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God's Blessings for Israel

¹ On that day ^(C1)the LORD will punish ^(F1)(C2)Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
With His fierce and great and mighty sword,
Even ^(F1)Leviathan the twisted serpent;
And ^(C3)He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

² On that day,
"A ^(F1)(C1)vineyard of beauty, sing of it!

³ "I, the LORD, am its keeper;
^(C1)I water it every moment.
So that no one will ^(F1)damage it,
I ^(C2)guard it night and day.

⁴ "I have no wrath.
Should ^(F1)someone give Me ^(C1)briars and thorns in battle,
Then I would step on them, ^(C2)I would burn them ^(F2)completely.

⁵ "Or let him ^(F1)(C1)rely on My protection,
Let him make peace with Me,
Let him ^(C2)make peace with Me."

^6 (F1)In the days to come Jacob ^(C1)will take root,
Israel will ^(C2)blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the ^(F2)whole world with ^(C3)fruit.

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

⁸ You contended with them ^(F1)by banishing them, by ^(C1)driving them away.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the ^(C2)east wind.

⁹ Therefore through this Jacob's wrongdoing will be ^(C1)forgiven;
And this will be ^(F1)the full price of the ^(F2)(C2)pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the ^(C3)altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When ^(F3)Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

¹⁰ For the fortified city is ^(C1)isolated,
A ^(F1)homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert;
^(C2)There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and ^(F2)feed on its branches.

¹¹ When its ^(C1)limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of ^(C2)discernment,
Therefore ^(C3)their Maker ^(C4)will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

¹² On that day the LORD ^(C1)will thresh from the flowing stream of the ^(C2)Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be ^(C3)gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel.¹³ It will come about also on that day that a great ^(C1)trumpet will be blown, and those who were 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 in Jerusalem.