| New Living Translation | Berean Study 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. | 1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon 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, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb 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 thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them 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 them lay claim to My protection; 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 the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom 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? | 7Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed 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 contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the 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. | 9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit 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 lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and 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 limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore 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, O 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. | 13And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. |
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