5
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; [yea], let him make peace with me.
6
In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
7
Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?
8
In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost content with them; he hath removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
9
Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, [so that] the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
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