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 the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.
2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.
3 I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.
4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
5 Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.
6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
7 Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?
8 Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.
9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
12 And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.
13 And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.