1 到那日， 耶和华要施用他锐利、巨大和有力的刀， 惩罚鳄鱼， 就是那快行的蛇； 惩罚鳄鱼， 就是那曲行的蛇； 并且要杀海中的大龙。

2 到那日， 有个出酒的葡萄园， 你们必指着这园歌唱说：

3 "我耶和华是看守葡萄园的； 我时刻浇灌着它， 并且为免有人毁坏它， 我日夜都看守着。

4 我再没有忿怒， 若荆棘和蒺藜与我交战， 我就上前践踏它们， 把它们全部焚毁。

5 除非他们抓住我作他们的避难所， 与我和好， 与我和好。"

6 在将来的日子里， 雅各要扎根， 以色列要发芽开花， 他们的果实必遍布地面。

7 耶和华击打以色列人， 岂像击打那些击打他们的呢？主杀戮以色列人， 岂像杀戮那些杀戮他们的呢？

8 不， 你只是渐渐地， 借着他们被掳与他们相争； 在吹东风的日子， 就用暴风把他们逐去。

9 借此， 雅各的罪孽才得赦免； 他的罪过得以除掉的条件全都在于此， 就是他叫祭坛上所有的石头都变为破碎的灰石， 使亚舍拉和香坛不再竖立。

10 坚固的城变为凄凉， 成了被撇下、被放弃的居所， 像旷野一样； 牛犊必在那里吃草， 在那里躺卧， 并且吃尽那里的树枝。

11 枝条枯干了， 就必被折断； 妇女必来， 拿去生火， 因为这人民愚昧无知， 所以他们的创造主不怜悯他们， 那造成他们的， 不向他们施恩。

12 到那日， 耶和华要从幼发拉底的溪流， 直到埃及小河， 收集他的谷物； 以色列人哪！ 你们必一个一个被捡拾回来。

13 到那日， 必有大号角吹响， 那些在亚述地快要灭亡的， 以及那些被赶散在埃及地的， 都要前来， 在耶路撒冷的圣山上敬拜耶和华。

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.