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Days are coming,[a] let Jacob take root;
    Israel will blossom and send out shoots,
    and they will fill the face of the world with fruit.
Does he strike him as he struck down those who struck him?[b]
    Or is he killed as those who killed him were killed?[c]
By expelling[d] her, by her sending away, you argue with her.
    He removed them with his strong wind,
    in the day of the east wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:6 Literally “The coming ones”
  2. Isaiah 27:7 Literally “like the striking of one striking him”
  3. Isaiah 27:7 Literally “like the killing of his killed ones”
  4. Isaiah 27:8 Meaning uncertain, derived from the following parallel expression