88 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
88 lines
1.9 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 27
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1. In that day the LORD will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
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2. "In that day,
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sing about the fruitful vineyard.
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3. I, the LORD, will watch over it,
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watering it carefully.
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Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.
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4. My anger will be gone.
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If I find briers and thorns growing,
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I will attack them;
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I will burn them up--
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5. unless they turn to me for help.
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Let them make peace with me;
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yes, let them make peace with me."
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6. The time is coming when Jacob's descendants will take root.
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Israel will bud and blossom
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and fill the whole earth with fruit!
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7. Has the LORD struck Israel
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as he struck her enemies?
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Has he punished her
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as he punished them?
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8. No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account.
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She was exiled from her land
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as though blown away in a storm from the east.
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9. The LORD did this to purge Israel's wickedness,
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to take away all her sin.
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As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
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No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.
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10. The fortified towns will be silent and empty,
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the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds.
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Calves will graze there,
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chewing on twigs and branches.
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11. The people are like the dead branches of a tree,
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broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots.
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Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
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for its people have turned away from God.
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Therefore, the one who made them
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will show them no pity or mercy.
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12. Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them--from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.
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13. In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the LORD on his holy mountain.
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