In that day, YAHWEH1 with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan, the swift serpent, and Leviathan, the crooked serpent; and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
2In that day, “A vineyard of wine,” sing to it. 3“I, YAHWEH am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together. 5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yes, let him make peace with me.”
6In days to come shall Yaqub take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the surface of the world with fruit. 7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them? 8In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. 9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Yaqub be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:2 that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. 10For the fortified city is solitary, a dwelling deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume its branches. 11When its boughs 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 who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favour.
12It shall happen in that day, that YAHWEH will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel.
13It shall happen in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship YAHWEH in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
- 27:1 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 27:9 Partially quoted from the LXX Greek text of this verse (“Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin,”) in the Injil, Romans 11:27, which says, “This is my covenant to them, when I will take away their sins.” ↩︎