| 1 That day Yahweh wil punish, with his unyielding sword, massive and strong, Leviathan the fleeingserpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he wil kil that dragon that lives in the sea. |
| 2 That day, sing of the splendid vineyard! |
| 3 I, Yahweh, am its guardian, from time to time I water it; so that no harm befal it, I guard it night andday. |
| 4 -I do not have a wall. Who can reduce me to brambles and thorn-bushes? -I shal make war andtrample on it and at the same time burn it. |
| 5 Or should they beg for my protection, let them make their peace with me, peace let them make withme. |
| 6 In days to come, Jacob will take root, Israel wil bud and blossom and the surface of the world be onevast harvest. |
| 7 Has he struck him as he was struck by those who struck him? Has he murdered him as he wasmurdered by those who murdered him? |
| 8 By expel ing, by excluding him, you have executed a sentence, he has blown him away with a breathas rough as the east wind. |
| 9 For that is how Jacob's guilt wil be forgiven, such wil be the result of renouncing his sin, when al thealtar-stones have been smashed to pieces like lumps of chalk, when the sacred poles and incense-altars standno longer. |
| 10 For the fortified city is abandoned now, deserted, forsaken as a desert where calves browse, wherethey lie down, destroying its branches. |
| 11 When boughs go dry, they get burnt, women come and use them for firewood. Now, this is a peoplethat does not understand, and so its Maker wil not take pity on it, he who formed it wil not show it any mercy. |
| 12 When that day comes, Yahweh wil start his threshing from the course of the River to the Torrent ofEgypt, and you will be gathered one by one, Israelites! |
| 13 When that day comes, the great ram's-horn will be sounded, and those lost in Assyria will come, andthose banished to Egypt, and they wil worship Yahweh on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem. |
