In that day the LORDwith his sore and great and strongswordshallpunishleviathan the piercingserpent, evenleviathanthatcrookedserpent; and he shallslay the dragonthat is in the sea.
By thisthereforeshall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to takeaway his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstonesthat are beaten in sunder, the groves and imagesshall not stand up.
Yet the defencedcityshall be desolate, and the habitationforsaken, and leftlike a wilderness: thereshall the calffeed, and thereshall he lie down, and consume the branchesthereof.
When the boughsthereof are withered, theyshall be broken off: the womencome, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he thatmadethemwill not havemercy on them, and he thatformedthemwillshewthem no favour.
And it shallcome to pass in that day, that the LORDshallbeat off from the channel of the riverunto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
And it shallcome to pass in that day, that the greattrumpetshall be blown, and theyshallcomewhichwereready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shallworship the LORD in the holymount at Jerusalem.