| New Living Translation | NET 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. | 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. |
| 2“In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. | 2When that time comes, sing about a delightful 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, protect it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day, so no one can harm 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. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire, |
| 5unless they turn to me for help. Let them make peace with me; yes, let them make peace with me.” | 5unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; 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! | 6The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world. |
| 7Has the LORD struck Israel as he struck her enemies? Has he punished her as he punished them? | 7Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies? |
| 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. | 8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in 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. | 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. |
| 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 left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat 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 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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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