Israel’s security in the great world-judgment

20 O people of mine, come, enter your chambers,

and shut your doors behind you;

and hide you but for a moment,

till the wrath be overpast.

21 For the Lord, behold, comes forth from his place,

to punish the dwellers on earth for their guilt;

and the earth will disclose her blood,

she will cover her slain no more.

27 When that comes, the Lord will punish,

with his fierce and great and mighty sword,

leviathan the fleeing serpent,

and leviathan the coiled serpent,

and the great sea-monster he will slay.

12 That day will the Lord beat out the grain

from the river Euphrates to the torrent of Egypt,

and you will be gleaned, one by one, sons of Israel.

13 That day, at the blast of a mighty trumpet,

the men who were lost in the land of Assyria,

and those who were outcast in Egypt’s land,

will come and bow down to the Lord in worship

on the holy Mount in Jerusalem.