1At that time, Yahweh will punish Leviathan,
2At that time, Yahweh will say,
3I will protect you
4I am no longer angry with my people;
5unless they request me to protect them;
6There will be a time when the ◄descendants of Jacob/Israeli people► will prosper like a plant that has good roots;
7But now I ask, has Yahweh punished us Israelis
8No, he has not done that,
9Yahweh did that in order to punish us for our sins,
10The cities that have strong walls around them will be empty;
11The Israeli people are like [MET] dry branches on a tree;
12However, there will be a time when Yahweh will gather them together again; he will separate them from the people who have conquered them, like people separate wheat from chaff. He will bring them back to Israel, one by one, from the land between the Euphrates River in the northeast and the brook at the border of Egypt in the southwest.
13At that time, a trumpet will be blown very loudly. And those who were exiled to Assyria and Egypt and who almost died there will return to Jerusalem, to worship Yahweh on Zion, his holy hill.