| Holman Christian Standard Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1On that day the LORD with His harsh, great, and strong sword, will bring judgment on Leviathan, the fleeing serpent--Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster 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. |
| 2On that day sing about a desirable vineyard: | 2“In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. |
| 3I, Yahweh, watch over it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day so that no one disturbs it. | 3I, the LORD, will watch over it, watering it carefully. Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it. |
| 4I am not angry, but if it produces thorns and briers for Me, I will fight against it, trample it, and burn it to the ground. | 4My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up— |
| 5Or let it take hold of My strength; let it make peace with Me-- make peace with Me. | 5unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.” |
| 6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bloom and fill the whole 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! |
| 7Did the LORD strike Israel as He struck the one who struck Israel? Was he killed like those killed by Him? | 7Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them? |
| 8You disputed with her by banishing and driving her away. He removed her with His severe storm on 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 Jacob's iniquity will be purged in this way, and the result 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. | 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. |
| 10For the fortified city will be deserted, pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness. Calves will graze there, and there they will spread out and strip 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 branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them. | 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. |
| 12On that day the LORD will thresh grain from the Euphrates River as far as the Wadi of Egypt, and you Israelites will be gathered one by one. | 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. |
| 13On that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those lost in the land of Assyria will come, as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt; and they will worship the LORD at Jerusalem on the holy mountain. | 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. |
| Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. | 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. |
|
