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¹ At that time the Lord will punish
with his destructive, great, and powerful sword
Leviathan the fast-moving serpent,
Leviathan the squirming serpent;
he will kill the sea monster.
² When that time comes,
sing about a delightful vineyard!
³ I, the Lord, protect it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day,
so no one can harm it.
⁴ I am not angry.
I wish I could confront some thorns and briers!
Then I would march against them for battle;
I would set them all on fire,
⁵ unless they became my subjects
and made peace with me;
let them make peace with me.
⁶ The time is coming when Jacob will take root;
Israel will blossom and grow branches.
The produce will fill the surface of the world.
⁷ Has the Lord struck down Israel like he did their oppressors?
Has Israel been killed like their enemies?
⁸ When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her;
he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
⁹ So in this way Jacob's sin will be forgiven,
and this is how they will show they are finished sinning:
They will make all the stones of the altars
like crushed limestone,
and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
¹⁰ For the fortified city is left alone;
it is a deserted settlement
and abandoned like the desert.
Calves graze there;
they lie down there
and eat its branches bare.
¹¹ When its branches get brittle, they break;
women come and use them for kindling.
For these people lack understanding,
therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them;
the one who formed them has no mercy on them.