4 Fury is not in Me. Who would set abriers and thorns Against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold aof My strength, That he may bmake peace with Me; And he shall make peace with Me.”
6 Those who come He shall cause ato take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud, And fill the face of the world with fruit.
7aHas He struck1 Israel as He struck those who struck him? Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?
8aIn measure, by sending it away, You contended with it. bHe removes it by His rough wind In the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, 1Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.
10 Yet the fortified city willbeadesolate, The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness; There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down And consume its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; The women come and set them on fire. For ait is a people of no understanding; Therefore He who made them will bnot have mercy on them, And cHe who formed them will show them no favor.
He—Jehovah. Here the song of the Lord as to His vineyard (Isaiah 27:2-5) ends; and the prophet confirms the sentiment in the song, under the same image of a vine (compare Psalms 92:13-15; Hosea 14:5-6).
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