4 “Wrath is not in Me. Who would set thornbushes and weeds against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 “Or let him take hold of My strength and make peace with Me. Let him make peace with Me!”
6 Those who come He causes to take root in Ya‛aqoḇ, Yisra’ĕl shall blossom and bud. And they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Has He smitten him as He smote those who were smiting him? Or were they slain as those they had slaughtered?
8 In measure, by sending her away, You contended with her. He shall take away by His rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this the crookedness of Ya‛aqoḇ is covered. 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 – Ashĕrim and sun-pillars rise no more.
10 For the city of defence is lonely, a home forsaken and left like a wilderness – there the calf feeds, and there it lies down, and shall consume its branches.