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.
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.