Isaias

5 Or else let him lay hold of my stronghold, make peace with me: let him make peace with me.

6 As to what cometh, Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the earth with fruit.

7 Hath he smitten him according to thesmiting of those that smote him 3 or is he slain according to the slaying of his slain?

8 In exact measure, by sending her away, thou contendest with her; he driveth her away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9 Therefore by this shall the guilt of Jacob be expiated; and this is all the fruit, taking away his sin ; when he maketh all the stones of the altar like chalkstones dashed in pieces, the Asherim and sun-pillars arise no more.

10 For the defenced city is solitary, an habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness ; there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume her branches. ’