Isaiah

1In that day, the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan, the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

2In that day, sing to her, “A pleasant vineyard!

3I, the LORD, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day.

4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

5Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

7Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favour.

12It will happen in that day that the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

13It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

1và Người sẽ giết chết con thuồng luồng ngoài biển.

2Ngày ấy, các ngươi hãy ca ngợi vườn nho tuyệt diệu.

3Ta canh giữ ngày đêm, không cho ai phá hoại.

4là Ta mở cuộc chiến, Ta sẽ đốt hết một trật.

5với Ta, nó hãy làm lành.

6và mặt đất sẽ đầy tràn hoa trái.

7Phải chăng Người đã giết nó, như giết những ai đã giết nó ?

8đánh bật chúng trong ngày gió đông.

9cột thờ với bàn thiên cũng chẳng còn.

10chỉ còn bò bê đến gặm cỏ, đến nằm đó mà nhá những cành cây.

11Đấng nặn ra chúng chẳng dung tha.

12từng người một, anh em sẽ được Chúa mót nhặt về.

13sẽ đến và thờ lạy ĐỨC CHÚA trên núi thánh tại Giê-ru-sa-lem.