Isaiah 27:7-11

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⁷ Has he struck them down as he struck down those who struck them?
    Or have they been killed as their killers^[a] were killed?^(A)
8 By expulsion,^[b] by exile you struggled against them;
    with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.^(B)
9 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^[c] or incense altars will remain standing.^(C)
10 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.^(D)
11 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 who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.^(E)