3 I Hashem do watch over it; I will water it continually; lest any harm it, I will guard it lailah va'yom.
4 Chemah (wrath, fury) is not in Me; but if there were briers and thorns set against Me in milchamah, I would march through it, I would burn it together.
5 Or let him [the enemy of My vineyard, the "brier" or "thorn"] take hold of My ma'oz (stronghold, protection) that he may make shalom with Me; yes, he shall make shalom with Me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Ya'akov to take root; Yisroel shall blossom and bud, and fill with fruit the face of the tevel.
7 Hath He struck it {Israel], as He struck down those that struck it? Or is it [Israel] slain like the slaying of them that are slain by Him?
8 In measure, in the sending [of Yehudah] away [in the Golus], Thou dost contend with her. By His hard wind He removes her in the Yom Kadim (day of the east wind).
9 By this therefore shall kapporah be made for the avon Ya'akov; and this is full fruitage to take away [Yehudah's] chattat; when He maketh all the stones of the [heathen] mizbe'ach like chalk stones crushed to pieces, the Asherim poles and pagan incense altars shall arise no more.