23:026:020 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers,
and shut thy
doors
about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little
moment,
until
the indignation be overpast.
23:026:021 For, behold, the lord cometh out of
his place to punish the
inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also
shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
23:027:001 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.
23:027:002 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
23:027:003 I the lord do keep it; I will water
it every moment: lest any
hurt
it, I will keep it night and day.
23:027:004 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.
23:027:005 Or let him take hold of my strength, that
he may make peace
with
me; and he shall make peace with me.
23:027:006 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.
23:027:007 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?
23:027:008 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou
wilt debate with it:
he
stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
23:027:009 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.
23:027:010 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.
23:027:011 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.
23:027:012 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.
23:027:013 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.


