^{6 Ref} In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

^{7 Ref} Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

^{8 Ref} Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

^{9 Ref} So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

^{10 Ref} For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.