| New American Standard Bible 1995 | NET Bible |
| 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. | 1At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster. |
| 2In that day, "A vineyard of wine, sing of it! | 2When that time comes, sing about a delightful vineyard! |
| 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. | 3I, the LORD, protect it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day, so no one can harm it. |
| 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. | 4I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire, |
| 5"Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me." | 5unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me. |
| 6In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit. | 6The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world. |
| 7Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain? | 7Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies? |
| 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. | 8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind. |
| 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. | 9So in this way Jacob's sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand. |
| 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. | 10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare. |
| 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. | 11When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them. |
| 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. | 12At that time the LORD will shake the tree, from the Euphrates River to the Stream of Egypt. Then you will be gathered up one by one, O Israelites. |
| 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. | 13At that time a large trumpet will be blown, and the ones lost in the land of Assyria will come, as well as the refugees in the land of Egypt. They will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. |
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