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27.3
ISAIAH
- I water it every moment;
- Lest Mine anger visit it,
- I guard it night and day.
- 4Fury is not in Me;
- Would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame!
- I would with one step burn it altogether.
- 5Or else let him take hold of My strength,
- That he may make peace with Me; yea, let him make peace with Me.
- 6In days to come shall Jacob take root,
- Israel shall blossom and bud;
- And the face of the world shall be filled with fruitage.
- 7Hath He smitten him as He smote those that smote him?
- Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by Him?
- 8In full measure, when Thou sendest her away, Thou dost contend with her;
- He hath removed her with His rough blast in the day of the east wind.
- 9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be expiated,
- And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
- When he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in pieces,
- So that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
- 10For the fortified city is solitary,
- A habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness;
- There shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down,
- And consume the branches thereof
- 11When the boughs thereof are withered,
- They shall be broken off;
- The women shall come, and set them on fire;
- For it is a people of no understanding;
- Therefore He that made them will not have compassion upon them,
- And He that formed them will not be gracious unto them.
- 12And it shall come to pass in that day,
- That the Lord will beat off [His fruit]
- From the flood of the River unto the Brook of Egypt,
- And ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
- 13And it shall come to pass in that day,
- That a great horn shall be blown;
- And they shall come that were lost in the land of Assyria,
- And they that were dispersed in the land of Egypt;
- And they shall worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
- 28Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim,
- And to the fading flower of his glorious beauty,
- Which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine!
- 2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one,
- As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction,
- As a storm of mighty waters overflowing,
- That casteth down to the earth with violence.
- 3The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim
- Shall be trodden under foot;
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