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| 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, even leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. |
In that day – The day of punishment of the earth (Isa. 26:21); of trouble such as never was (Dan. 12:1); that shall burn as an oven (Mal. 4:1); like a refiner's fire (Mal. 3:2); the day of reckoning. R1357:2
The dragon – That old serpent, the devil and Satan. (Rev. 12:9) R171:6*
The sea – The restless, turbulent, dissatisfied masses of the world. A318
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| 2 In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye unto it. |
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| 3 I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. |
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| 4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together. |
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| 5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yes, let him make peace with me. |
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| 6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit. |
That come of Jacob – Natural Israel. A300
Blossom and bud – After being apparently dead. R1063:1*
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| 7 Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? |
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| 8 In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind. |
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| 9 Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. |
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| 10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. |
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| 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor. |
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| 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. |
One by one – Not in multitude at the first gathering. R341:5*
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| 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain in Jerusalem. |
The great trumpet – Related to the trumpet of Jubilee. R2025:3, R2026:1
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