[a]Hereafter Jacob shall take root: Israel shall flourish and grow: and the world shall be filled with fruit.

Hath he smitten [b]him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by him?

In [c]measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contend with it, when he bloweth with his rough wind in the day of the East wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:6 Though I afflict and diminish my people for a time, yet shall the root spring again and bring forth in great abundance.
  2. Isaiah 27:7 He showeth that God punisheth his in mercy, and his enemies in justice.
  3. Isaiah 27:8 That is, thou wilt not destroy the root of thy Church, though the branches thereof seem to perish by the sharp wind of affliction.

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