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On that day the
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On that day:
A pleasant vineyard, sing about it!
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I, the
every moment I water it.
I guard it night and day
so that no one can harm it;
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I have no wrath.
If it gives me thorns and briers,
I will march to battle against it.
I will burn it up.
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Or else let it cling to me for protection,
let it make peace with me,
let it make peace with me.
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In days to come 1 Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots,
and fill the whole world with fruit.
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Has he struck them down as he struck down those who struck them?
Or have they been killed as their killers were killed?
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By expulsion, 2 by exile you struggled against them;
with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.
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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 sacred poles 3 or incense altars will remain standing.
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For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
the calves graze there,
there they lie down, and strip its branches.
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When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
therefore he that made them will not have compassion on them,
he that formed them will show them no favor.
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On that day the