Bible verse
By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
Isaiah 27:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 27.
4 I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
5 Or let them lay claim to My protection; let them make peace with Me—yes, let them make peace with Me.”
6 In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
7 Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
8 By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
9 Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
10 For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
11 When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
KJV
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
ASV
In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
ERV
In measure, when thou sendest her away, thou dost contend with her; he hath removed her with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
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