3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;I water it every moment;lest anyone damage it,I protect it night and day.
4 I have no fury.Should someone give Me briers and thorns in battle,then I would step on them,I would burn them fully.
5 Or let him rely on My strength;let him make peace with Me;let him make peace with Me.
6 In the days to come Jacob shall take root;Israel shall blossom and budand shall fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Has He struck them,as He struck those who struck them?Or like the slaughter of His slain,have they been slain?
8 You fought with them by banishing them, by driving them away.He has expelled themon the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.
9 Through this, therefore, the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven,and this will be the full price of the removal of his sin:when he makes all the stones of the altaras chalkstones that are pulverized,when the groves and incense altarsshall not stand.