| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1In that day the LORD will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea. | 1On that day the LORD with His harsh, great, and strong sword, will bring judgment on Leviathan, the fleeing serpent--Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster that is in the sea. |
| 2"In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. | 2On that day sing about a desirable vineyard: |
| 3I, the LORD, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it. | 3I, Yahweh, watch over it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day so that no one disturbs it. |
| 4My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up-- | 4I am not angry, but if it produces thorns and briers for Me, I will fight against it, trample it, and burn it to the ground. |
| 5unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me." | 5Or let it take hold of My strength; let it make peace with Me-- make peace with Me. |
| 6The time is coming when Jacob's descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit! | 6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bloom and fill the whole world with fruit. |
| 7Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them? | 7Did the LORD strike Israel as He struck the one who struck Israel? Was he killed like those killed by Him? |
| 8No, but he exiled Israel to call her to account. She was exiled from her land as though blown away in a storm from the east. | 8You disputed with her by banishing and driving her away. He removed her with His severe storm on the day of the east wind. |
| 9The LORD did this to purge Israel's wickedness, to take away all her sin. As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust. No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing. | 9Therefore Jacob's iniquity will be purged in this way, and the result of the removal of his sin will be this: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing. |
| 10The fortified towns will be silent and empty, the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds. Calves will graze there, chewing on twigs and branches. | 10For the fortified city will be deserted, pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip its branches. |
| 11The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy. | 11When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them. |
| 12Yet the time will come when the LORD will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them--from the Euphrates River in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west. | 12On that day the LORD will thresh grain from the Euphrates River as far as the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered one by one. |
| 13In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the LORD on his holy mountain. | 13On that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those lost in the land of Assyria will come, as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt; and they will worship the LORD at Jerusalem on the holy mountain. |
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