NET Bible
"Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?"
— Isaiah 27:7, NET Bible
“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?”
“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?”
I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire,
unless they became my subjects and made peace with me; let them make peace with me.
The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.
Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies?
When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.