American Standard Version
"Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them? "
— Isaiah 27:7, American Standard Version
“Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?”
“Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?”
“Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?”
“Hath he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? or is he slain, as he killed them that were slain by him?”
“Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?”
“Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?”
Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.
Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.
In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?
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.
Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.