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Chapter 27 |
| 1 | In that day
the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the
piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the
dragon that is in the sea. |
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2 | In that day sing ye unto her, A
vineyard of red wine. |
| 3 | I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every
moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. |
| 4 | Fury is not in
me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go
through them, I would burn them together. |
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5 | Or let him take hold of my
strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with
me. |
| 6 |
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall
blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. |
| 7 | Hath he
smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the
slaughter of them that are slain by him? |
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8 | In measure, when it shooteth
forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the
east wind. |
| 9
| By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged;
and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones
of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images
shall not stand up. |
| 10 | Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and
the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed,
and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. |
| 11 | When
the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and
set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that
made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them
no favour. |
| 12
| And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD
shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye
shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. |
| 13 | And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall
come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the
land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. |
