Isaiah 27:9-11

New International Reader's Version

⁹ The people of Jacob will have to pay for their sin.
    Here is how they will show that their sin has been removed.
They will make all the altar stones like limestone.
    They will crush them to pieces.
No poles used to worship the female god named Asherah will be left standing.
    No incense altars will be left either.
¹⁰ Cities that have high walls around them will become empty.
    They will be settlements with no one in them.
    They will be like a desert.
Calves will eat and lie down in them.
    They will strip bare the branches of their trees.
¹¹ When their twigs are dry, they will be broken off.
    Then women will come and make fires with them.
The people of Jacob don’t understand the Lord.
    So the God who made them won’t be concerned about them.
    Their Creator won’t be kind to them.