The LORD’s Vineyard (John 15:1–8)
1 UEB On that day Yahweh with his hard, great and fierce sword will punish Leviathan the slithering serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent, and he will kill the monster that is in the sea. BSB BSB: In 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 UEB In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing of it. BSB BSB: In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
3 UEB "I, Yahweh, am its protector; I water it every moment. I guard it night and day so no one will hurt it. BSB BSB: I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
4 UEB I am not angry, Oh, that there were briers and thorns! In battle I would march against them; I would burn them all together; BSB BSB: I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
5 UEB unless they grasp my protection and make peace with me; let them make peace with me. BSB BSB: Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me—yes, let them make peace with Me.”
6 UEB In the coming day, Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and bud; and they will fill the surface of the ground with fruit." BSB BSB: In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 UEB Has Yahweh attacked Jacob and Israel as he attacked those nations who attacked them? Have Jacob and Israel been killed as in the slaughter of those nations that were killed by them? BSB BSB: Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
8 UEB In exact measure you have contended, sending Jacob and Israel away; he drove them away with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind. BSB BSB: By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
9 UEB So in this way, the iniquity of Jacob will be atoned for, for this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he will make all the altar stones as chalk and crushed to pieces, and no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing. BSB BSB: Therefore 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.
10 UEB For the fortified city is desolate, the habitation is deserted and forsaken like the wilderness. There a calf feeds, and there he lies down and consumes its branches. BSB BSB: For 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.
11 UEB When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for this is not a people of understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them. BSB BSB: When 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.
12 UEB It will come about on that day that Yahweh will thresh from the Euphrates River to the Wadi of Egypt and you, the people of Israel, will be gathered together one by one. BSB BSB: In 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.
13 UEB On that day a great trumpet will be blown; and the perishing ones in the land of Assyria will come, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, they will worship Yahweh on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. BSB BSB: And 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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