Isaiah 27:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸ By frightening Jerusalem, by sending her away,^[a]
    you contended with her,
    expelling with a fierce blast
    on the day of the east wind.
⁹ By this Jacob’s guilt is reconciled,
    and this was how his sins were finally removed:
    he made all the altar stones like shattered chalk,
    sacred poles^[b] and incense altars that couldn’t stand.

¹⁰ The fortified city lies alone,
    a hut forsaken,
    abandoned like the desert.
Calves graze there;
    they lie down there and feed on its boughs.