The deliverance and ingathering of Judah
  I would as soon have briars and thorns,
then I would wage war upon it and burn it all up,
5   unless it grasps me as its refuge and makes peace with me—
    unless it makes peace with me.


   6   In time to come Jacob's offspring shall take root
  and Israel shall bud and blossom,
  and they shall fill the whole earth with fruit.


   7   Has God struck him down as he struck others down?
  Has the slayer been slain as he slew others?
8    9    10    ^note This then purges Jacob's iniquity,
  this ^note has removed his sin:
that he grinds all altar stones to powder like chalk;
  no sacred poles and incense-altars are left standing.


  The fortified city is left solitary,
  and his quarrel with her ends in brushing her away, ^note
  removing her by a cruel blast when the east wind blows;
it is a homestead stripped bare, deserted like a wilderness;
  there the calf grazes and there lies down,
    and crops every twig.
   11   Its boughs snap off when they grow dry,
and women come and light their fires with them.
  For they are a people without sense;
  therefore their maker will show them no mercy,
    he who formed them will show them no favour.


   12   On that day the Lord will beat out the grain,
  from the streams of the Euphrates to the Torrent of Egypt;
  but you Israelites will be gleaned
  one by one.


     13   On that day
  a blast shall be blown on a great trumpet,
    and those who are lost in Assyria
  and those dispersed in Egypt will come in
and worship the Lord on the holy mountain, in Jerusalem.

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