⁷⁵ And now in some measure mercy has come to us from you, O Lord, to leave to us a root and a name in your holy place^(A)

⁸⁴ and gave us such a root as this, but we turned back again to transgress your law by mixing with the uncleanness of the nations of the land.^(A)

⁸⁶ O Lord of Israel, you are faithful, for we are left as a root to this day.^(A)

³¹ The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,^(A)

The Great Day of the Lord

4 ^[a]See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.^(A)