5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come from Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Has he struck him, as he struck those that struck him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, by sending it away, you will contend with it: he removes it with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, the idol poles and incense altars shall not remain standing.
10 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 strip its branches.
11 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.