Isaiah 27:7-13

7Has the LORD struck her as he struck down those who struck her? Has she been killed as those were killed who killed her?

8By warfare See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. and exile you contend with her— with his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

9By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah or incense altars will be left standing.

10The fortified city stands desolate, an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness; there the calves graze, there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

11When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. 12In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. 13And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.