¹⁶Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them. ¹⁷As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah. ¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. ¹⁹Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

²⁰Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past. ²¹For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Chapter 27

¹In that day Jehovah, with his sore and great and strong sword, will visit leviathan the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea. ²In that day there shall be a vineyard of pure wine; sing concerning it: ³I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day. ⁴Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together. ⁵Or let him take hold of my strength; let him make peace with me: yea, let him make peace with me. ⁶In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

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