The LORD’s Vineyard (John 15:1–8)
1 WBS In that day the LORD with his keen and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon 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 WBS In that day sing ye to her, A vineyard of red wine. BSB BSB: In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard.
3 WBS I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 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 WBS Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them 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 WBS Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall 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 WBS He shall cause them that descend from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world 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 WBS Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? BSB BSB: Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
8 WBS In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind 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 WBS By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalk-stones that are beaten asunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 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 WBS Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume 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 WBS When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor. 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 WBS And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall gather from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children 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 WBS And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD on the holy mount at 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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