rsv Isaiah:27:4-8
rsv@Isaiah:27:4 @ I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.
rsv@Isaiah:27:5 @ Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me."
rsv@Isaiah:27:6 @ In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.
rsv@Isaiah:27:7 @ Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
rsv@Isaiah:27:8 @ Measure by measure, by exile thou didst contend with them; he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.