⁶ In days to come^[a] Jacob shall take root,
    Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
    and fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷ Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them?
    Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?
⁸ Measure by measure,^[b] by exile you contended with them;
    he removed them with his fierce breath^[c] in the day of the east wind.
⁹ Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:^[d]
when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
    no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
¹⁰ For the fortified city is solitary,
    a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
    there it lies down and strips its branches.
¹¹ When 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 who formed them will show them no favor.

⁵ In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory,^[g]
    and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
⁶ and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
    and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

⁷ These also reel with wine
    and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,
    they are swallowed by^[h] wine,
    they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
    they stumble in giving judgment.
⁸ For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
    with no space left.

⁹ “To whom will he teach knowledge,
    and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
    those taken from the breast?
¹⁰ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
    line upon line, line upon line,
    here a little, there a little.”

¹¹ For by people of strange lips
    and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
¹²     to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
    give rest to the weary;
and this is repose”;
    yet they would not hear.
¹³ And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
    line upon line, line upon line,
    here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and fall backward,
    and be broken, and snared, and taken.