1 Naquele dia, o Senhor castigará com a sua dura espada, grande e forte, o dragão, serpente veloz, e o dragão, serpente sinuosa, e matará o monstro que está no mar.

2 Naquele dia, dirá o Senhor: Cantai a vinha deliciosa! 3 Eu, o Senhor, a vigio e a cada momento a regarei; para que ninguém lhe faça dano, de noite e de dia eu cuidarei dela. 4 Não há indignação em mim. Quem me dera espinheiros e abrolhos diante de mim! Em guerra, eu iria contra eles e juntamente os queimaria. 5 Ou que homens se apoderem da minha força e façam paz comigo; sim, que façam paz comigo.

6 Dias virão em que Jacó lançará raízes, florescerá e brotará Israel, e encherão de fruto o mundo. 7 Porventura, feriu o Senhor a Israel como àqueles que o feriram? Ou o matou, assim como àqueles que o mataram? 8 Com xô!, xô! e exílio o trataste; com forte sopro o expulsaste no dia do vento oriental. 9 Portanto, com isto será expiada a culpa de Jacó, e este é todo o fruto do perdão do seu pecado: quando o Senhor fizer a todas as pedras do altar como pedras de cal feitas em pedaços, não ficarão em pé os postes-ídolos e os altares do incenso. 10 Porque a cidade fortificada está solitária, habitação desamparada e abandonada como um deserto; ali pastam os bezerros, deitam-se e devoram os seus ramos. 11 Quando os seus ramos se secam, são quebrados. Então, vêm as mulheres e lhes deitam fogo, porque este povo não é povo de entendimento; por isso, aquele que o fez não se compadecerá dele, e aquele que o formou não lhe perdoará.

12 Naquele dia, em que o Senhor debulhará o seu cereal desde o Eufrates até ao ribeiro do Egito; e vós, ó filhos de Israel, sereis colhidos um a um. 13 Naquele dia, se tocará uma grande trombeta, e os que andavam perdidos pela terra da Assíria e os que forem desterrados para a terra do Egito tornarão a vir e adorarão ao Senhor no monte santo em Jerusalém.

1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

2 In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it. 3 I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together. 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me. 6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? 8 In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9 Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

1 In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword — his fierce, great and powerful sword — Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.

2 In that day — "Sing about a fruitful vineyard:

3 I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.

4 I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

5 Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them make peace with me."

6 In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.

7 Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?

8 By warfare "and exile you contend with her — with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

9 By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles "or incense altars will be left standing.

10 The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one.

13 And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.