| New Living Translation | New International Version |
| 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. | 1In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword-- his fierce, great and powerful sword-- Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea. |
| 2"In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. | 2In that day-- "Sing about a fruitful vineyard: |
| 3I, the LORD, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it. | 3I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm 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. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire. |
| 5unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me." | 5Or else let them come to me for refuge; let them make peace with me, yes, let them 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 bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit. |
| 7Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them? | 7Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her? |
| 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. | 8By warfare and exile you contend with her-- with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows. |
| 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. | 9By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left 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. | 10The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare. |
| 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 twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. |
| 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. | 12In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up 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. | 13And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. |
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