1 In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.2 In that day {there shall be} a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it:3 I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.4 Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars {and} thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together.5 Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: {yea,} let him make peace with me.6 In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.7 Hath he smitten him according to the smiting of those that smote him? Is he slain according to the slaughter of those slain by him?8 In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken {her} away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.9 By this, therefore, shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of the taking away of his sin: when he shall make all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are crumbled in pieces, -the Asherahs and the sun-images shall not stand.10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its boughs.11 When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come {and} set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, {ye} children of Israel.13 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were perishing in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

1 In die dag sal die HERE met sy harde en groot en sterk swaard besoeking doen oor die Levi tan, die vinnige slang, en oor die Levi tan, die kronkelende slang; en Hy sal die draak doodmaak wat in die groot water is.2 In die dag sal daar wees 'n wingerd van skuimende wyn -- sing daarvan!3 Ek, die HERE, bewaak dit: elke oomblik sal Ek hom bevogtig; Ek sal hom nag en dag bewaak, sodat niks hom kan tref nie.4 Geen grimmigheid is by My nie. Kry Ek doring of distel, in oorlog sou Ek daarop aanval, dit alles saam verbrand.5 Of hulle moet my beskutting aangryp, vrede met My maak, vrede met My maak.6 In die dae wat kom, sal Jakob wortel skiet, Israel sal bloei en uitbot, sodat hulle die wêreld vol vrugte sal maak.7 Het Hy hom geslaan met die slag wat sy teëstander getref het? Of is hy gedood met 'n slagting soos die wat deur Hom gedood is?8 Met mate het U met hom afgereken toe U hom verstoot het; Hy het hom verdrywe met sy geweldige wind op die dag van die oostewind.9 Daarom sal hiermee die skuld van Jakob versoen word, en dit is die volle vrug van die wegneming van sy sonde: as hy al die altaarklippe maak soos verbryselde kalkklippe, die heilige boomstamme en die sonpilare nie meer oprys nie.10 Want die versterkte stad is eensaam, 'n woning wat ontvolk en verlate is soos die woestyn; daar wei kalwers en daar lê hulle, en hulle eet sy takke af.11 As sy takke verdor het, word hulle afgebreek; vroue kom en steek dit aan die brand; want dit is 'n volk sonder verstand. Daarom sal hulle Maker Hom nie oor hulle ontferm nie en sal hulle Formeerder aan hulle geen genade bewys nie.12 En in die dag sal die HERE vrugte afslaan, van die stroom van die Eufraat af tot by die spruit van Egipte, en julle sal ingesamel word, een vir een, o kinders van Israel!13 En in die dag sal daar met 'n groot basuin geblaas word; dan sal kom die wat verlore is in die land Assur en die wat verdryf is in Egipteland, en hulle sal die HERE aanbid op die heilige berg in Jerusalem.