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²In that day:

“A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!

³I, the LORD, am its keeper;

every moment I water it.

Lest any one harm it,

I guard it night and day;

⁴I have no wrath.

Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!

I would set out against them,

I would burn them up together.

⁵Or let them lay hold of my protection,

let them make peace with me,

let them make peace with me.”

⁶In days to come Jacob shall take root,

Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots,

and fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷Has he smitten them as he smote those who smote them?

Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?

⁸Measure by measure, by exile thou didst contend with them;

he removed them with his fierce blast in the day of the east wind.

⁹Therefore 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.

¹⁰For the fortified city is solitary,

a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;

there the calf grazes,

there he lies down, and strips its branches.

¹¹When its boughs are dry, they are broken;

women come and make a fire of them.

For this is a people without discernment;

therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them,

he that formed them will show them no favour.