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You contended with them [a]by driving them away, by (A)making them forlorn.
With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the (B)east wind.
Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be (C)atoned for;
And this will be the whole fruit of the (D)turning away of his sin:
When he makes all the (E)altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,
When [b]Asherim and incense altars will not stand.
10 For the fortified city is (F)isolated,
A [c]haunt [d]forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
(G)There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and [e]feed on its twigs.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:8 Some ancient versions by exact measure
  2. Isaiah 27:9 Wooden symbols of a female deity
  3. Isaiah 27:10 Lit pasture
  4. Isaiah 27:10 Lit sent away
  5. Isaiah 27:10 Lit consume