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

^{7 Ref} Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by them?

^{8 Ref} In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

^{9 Ref} Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

^{10 Ref} For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches of it.