rsv Isaiah:27:6-9
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.
rsv@Isaiah:27:9 @ Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be expiated, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Ashe'rim or incense altars will remain standing.