1 GLT On that day Yahweh, with his hard and 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 GLT On that day, a delightful vineyard, sing of it! BSB BSB: In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
3 GLT “I, Yahweh, guard it. I water it every moment. lest{ anyone} hurts it, night and day I guard 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 GLT I do not have anger. Oh, if they would give me 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 GLT If he takes hold of my protection, he makes peace with me; he makes 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 GLT In the coming{ day}, Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and bud, and they will fill the face of the earth 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 GLT As the attacking of his attacker, has he attacked? Or, like the slaying of his slain, was he slayed? BSB BSB: Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
8 GLT In a measure, in sending her out, you have contended with her. He released his fierce breath on an east- wind day. 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 GLT So in this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered, for this{ will be} all the fruit of the removal of his sin: when he will make all the altar stones as chalk stones, crushed to pieces. No Asherah poles or incense altars will stand. 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 GLT 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 GLT When its boughs are dry, they will be broken. Women will come, make fires with them, for it is not a people of understanding. Therefore, its Maker will not have compassion on them, and its creator 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 GLT And it will happen on that day: Yahweh will thresh from the Euphrates River to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered, one{ by} one, sons of Israel. 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 GLT And it will happen on that day: a great trumpet will be blown, and the perishing in the land of Assyria will come, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they will bow down to 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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