1 Naquele dia, o Senhor com sua espada severa, longa e forte, castigará o Leviatã, serpente veloz, o Leviatã, serpente tortuosa; matará no mar a serpente aquática.

2 Naquele dia, cantem sobre a vinha frutífera:

3 "Eu, o Senhor, sou o seu vigia, rego-a constantemente e a protejo dia e noite para impedir que lhe façam dano.

4 Não estou irado. Se espinheiros e roseiras bravas me enfrentassem, eu marcharia contra eles em combate e poria fogo neles todos.

5 Se não, que venham buscar refúgio em mim; que façam as pazes comigo. Sim, que façam as pazes comigo".

6 Nos dias vindouros Jacó lançará raízes, Israel terá botões e flores e encherá o mundo de frutos.

7 Acaso o Senhor o feriu como feriu aqueles que o feriram? Acaso ele foi morto como foram mortos os que o feriram?

8 Pelo desterro e pelo exílio o julga, com seu sopro violento ele o expulsa, como num dia de rajadas do vento oriental.

9 Assim será perdoada a maldade de Jacó, e será este o fruto da remoção do seu pecado: Quando ele fizer com que as pedras do altar sejam esmigalhadas e fiquem como pó de giz, os postes sagrados e os altares de incenso não ficarão de pé.

10 A cidade fortificada está abandonada, desabitada e esquecida como o deserto; ali os bezerros pastam e se deitam, e desfolham os seus ramos.

11 Quando os seus ramos estão secos e quebram-se, as mulheres fazem fogo com eles, pois esse é um povo sem entendimento. Por isso aquele que o fez não tem compaixão dele, aquele que o formou não lhe mostra misericórdia.

12 Naquele dia o Senhor debulhará desde as margens do Eufrates até o ribeiro do Egito, e vocês, israelitas, serão ajuntados um a um.

13 E naquele dia soará uma grande trombeta. Os que estavam perecendo na Assíria e os que estavam exilados no Egito virão e adorarão o Senhor no monte santo, em Jerusalém.

1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day, sing to her, "A pleasant vineyard! 3 I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together. 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me."

6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit. 7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed? 8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more. 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches. 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

13 It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.