| King James Bible | New International Version |
| 1In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in 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. |
| 2In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. | 2In that day-- "Sing about a fruitful vineyard: |
| 3I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. | 3I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it. |
| 4Fury 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. | 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. |
| 5Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall 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." |
| 6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. | 6In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit. |
| 7Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? | 7Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her? |
| 8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. | 8By warfare and exile you contend with her-- with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows. |
| 9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. | 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. |
| 10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. | 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. |
| 11When the boughs thereof 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 that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. | 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. |
| 12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. | 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. |
| 13And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. | 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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