² In that day
sing ye unto her,
A vineyard of red wine.
³ I the LORD do keep it;
I will water it every moment:
lest any hurt it [visit upon it],
I will keep it night and day.
⁴ Fury is not in me:
who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle?
I would go through them,
I would burn them together.
⁵ Or let him take hold of my strength,
that he may make peace with me;
and he shall make peace with me.

⁶ He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root:
Israel shall blossom and bud,
and fill the face of the world with fruit.

⁷ 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?
⁸ In measure,
when it shooteth forth,
thou wilt debate with it:
he stayeth his rough wind
in the day of the east wind.
⁹ By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged;
and this is all the fruit to take away his sin;
maketh all the stones of the altar
as chalkstones [as stones of chalk] that are beaten in sunder,
the groves and images shall not stand up.
¹⁰ Yet the defenced city shall be desolate,
and the habitation forsaken,
and left like a wilderness:
there shall the calf feed,
and there shall he lie down,
and consume the branches thereof.
¹¹ When the boughs thereof are withered,
they shall be broken off:
the women come,
and set them on fire:
for it is a people of no understanding:
therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them,
and he that formed them will shew them no favour [not will he bend to him].