6. In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
7. Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?
8. In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
9. Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will 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 pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
10. For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
11. When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
12. It will happen in that day, that יהוה will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
13. It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship יהוה in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
Chapter 28
1. Woe 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 fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
2. Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
3. The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.
4. The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
5. In that day, יהוה of Armies will become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the residue of his people;
6. and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
7. They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
8. For all tables are completely full of filthy vomit and filthiness.
9. Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
10. For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.
11. But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;
12. to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear.
13. Therefore יהוה word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.
22. Therefore יהוה, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no longer be ashamed, neither shall his face grow pale.
23. But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.