The Restoration of Israel

2In that day sing you^p to her, A vineyard of red wine.   meaning Israel

3I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.   watch over

4Fury is not in Me: who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.   march against

5Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.

6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

7Has He smitten him, as He smote those that smote Him? or is He slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by Him?   struck

8In measure, when it shoots forth, You will debate with it: He stays His rough wind in the day of the east wind.

9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.   idols

10Yet the defensed city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.   fortified, walled

11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore He that made them will not have mercy on them, and He that formed them will show them no favor.

12And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt, and you^p shall be gathered one by one, O you^p children of Israel.   thresh

13And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.