The Holy Bible: Revised Common Version

"A vineyard of red wine.

3  I, the LORD, keep it./
I will water it every moment./
Lest any hurt it,/
I will keep it night and day.

4  Fury is not in me./
Who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle?/
I would go through them. I would burn them together.

5  Or let him take hold of my strength/
so that he may make peace with me./
And he shall make peace with me."

6  He shall cause those who descend from Jacob to take root./
Israel shall blossom and bud/
and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7  Has he smitten him, as he smote those who smote him?/
Or is he slain according to the slaughter of those who are slain by him?

8  In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it./
He stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9  By this therefore, the iniquity of Jacob shall be purged,/
and this is all the fruit to take away his sin:/
when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten apart,/
the groves and images shall not stand up.

10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate/
and the habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness./
There the calf shall feed, and there he shall lie down/
and consume its branches.

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

12 And it shall come to pass in that day,/
that the LORD shall gather/
from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt,/
and you shall be gathered one by one, O children of Israel.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day,/
that the great trumpet shall be blown,/
and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria,/
and the outcasts in the land of Egypt,/
and shall worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.