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10 For the fortified city is solitary,
    a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
the calf grazes there,
    lies down there and destroys its branches.
11 When its branches are dry,[a] they are broken;
women are coming and setting light to it.

For it is not a people of understanding;

therefore his maker will not have compassion on him,
    and his creator will not show him favor.

12 And this shall happen:

on that day, Yahweh will thresh from the floodwaters of the Euphrates to the wadi[b] of Egypt, and as for you, you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:11 Literally “In her branch being dry”
  2. Isaiah 27:12 A seasonal stream that is often dry