| New Living Translation | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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 Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. |
| 2“In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. | 2In that day, "A vineyard of wine, sing of it! |
| 3I, the LORD, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it. | 3"I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day. |
| 4My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up— | 4"I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely. |
| 5unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.” | 5"Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him 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 blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit. |
| 7Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them? | 7Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain? |
| 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 contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them 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 through this Jacob's iniquity will be forgiven; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand. |
| 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 is isolated, A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on 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 limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, 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. | 12In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. |
| 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. | 13It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem. |
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