3. I, the Lord, am its keeper;I water it every moment;lest anyone damage it,I protect it night and day.
4. I have no fury.Should someone give Me briers and thorns in battle,then I would step on them,I would burn them fully.
5. Or let him rely on My strength;let him make peace with Me;let him make peace with Me.
6. In the days to come Jacob shall take root;Israel shall blossom and budand shall fill the whole world with fruit.
7. Has He struck them,as He struck those who struck them?Or like the slaughter of His slain,have they been slain?
8. You fought with them by banishing them, by driving them away.He has expelled themon the day of the east wind with His fierce wind.
9. Through this, therefore, the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven,and this will be the full price of the removal of his sin:when he makes all the stones of the altaras chalkstones that are pulverized,when the groves and incense altarsshall not stand.
10. For the fortified city shall be desolate,a homestead forlorn and forsaken like a wilderness;there the calf shall graze,and there it shall lie downand eat its branches.