- He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
- 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?
- In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
- 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 chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
- Yet the defenced 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 the branches thereof.
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- In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.
- Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?
- By warfare and exile you contend with her-- with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.
- By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.
- The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the desert; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
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