Catholic Public Domain Version
"Has he struck him with the scourge that he himself used to strike others? Or has he killed in the manner that he himself used to kill his victims?"
— Isaiah 27:7, Catholic Public Domain 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?”
“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? ”
“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?”
Indignation is not mine. Who will be a thorn and a brier to me in battle? I will advance against them. I set them on fire together.
Or will he, instead, take hold of my strength? Will he make peace with me? Will she make peace with me?
As they advance with violence against Jacob, Israel will flourish and spring forth, and they will fill the face of the world with offspring.
Has he struck him with the scourge that he himself used to strike others? Or has he killed in the manner that he himself used to kill his victims?
You will judge this by comparing one measure to another, when he has been cast out. He has decided this, by his stern spirit, for the day of heat.
Therefore, concerning this, the iniquity of the house of Jacob will be forgiven. And this is the reward of all: that their sin be taken away, when he will have made all the stones of the altar to be like crushed cinders. For the sacred groves and the shrines shall not stand.
For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits.