| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1In that day the LORD with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea. | 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. |
| 2In that day sing to her, “A vineyard of red wine! | 2“In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. |
| 3I, the LORD, keep it, I water it every moment; Lest any hurt it, I keep it night and day. | 3I, the LORD, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it. |
| 4Fury is not in Me. Who would set briers and thorns Against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. | 4My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up— |
| 5Or let him take hold of My strength, That he may make peace with Me; And he shall make peace with Me.” | 5unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.” |
| 6Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of the world with fruit. | 6The time is coming when Jacob’s descendants will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with fruit! |
| 7Has He struck Israel as He struck those who struck him? Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him? | 7Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them? |
| 8In measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. He removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind. | 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. |
| 9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand. | 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. |
| 10Yet the fortified city will be desolate, The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down And consume its branches. | 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. |
| 11When its boughs are withered, they will 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. | 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. |
| 12And it shall come to pass in that day That the LORD will thresh, From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel. | 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. |
| 13So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem. | 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. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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