5. Or let them lay hold of my protection,let them make peace with me,let them make peace with me.”
6. In days to come Jacob shall take root,Israel shall blossom and put forth shootsand fill the whole world with fruit.
7. Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
8. Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.
9. Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altarslike chalkstones crushed to pieces,no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10. For the fortified city is solitary,a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;there the calf grazes;there it lies down and strips its branches.