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the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">a</a></sup></span> and exile you contend with her—</p><p class="line2">with his fierce blast he drives her out,</p><p class="line2">as on a day the east wind blows.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for,</p><p class="line2">and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:</p><p class="line1">When he makes all the altar stones</p><p class="line2">to be like limestone crushed to pieces,</p><p class="line1">no Asherah poles <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah">b</a></sup></span> or incense altars</p><p class="line2">will be left standing.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The fortified city stands desolate,</p><p class="line2">an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;</p><p class="line1">there the calves graze,</p><p class="line2">there they lie down;</p><p class="line2">they strip its branches bare.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When its twigs are dry, they are broken off</p><p class="line2">and women come and make fires with them.</p><p class="line1">For this is a people without understanding;</p><p class="line2">so their Maker has no compassion on them,</p><p class="line2">and their Creator shows them no favor.</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>In that day the <span class="name">Lord</span> will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the <span class="name">Lord</span> on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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