^{4 Ref} Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

^{5 Ref} Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; `yea', let him make peace with me.

^{6 Ref} In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

^{7 Ref} Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?

^{8 Ref} In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost content with them; he hath removed `them' with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.