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 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。