⁸ By warfare^[a] and exile^(A) you contend with her—
    with his fierce blast he drives her out,
    as on a day the east wind^(B) blows.
⁹ By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned^(C) for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:^(D)
When he makes all the altar stones^(E)
    to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles^[b](F) or incense altars^(G)
    will be left standing.
¹⁰ The fortified city stands desolate,^(H)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken^(I) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,^(J)
    there they lie down;^(K)
    they strip its branches bare.