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Read Full Chapter (Isaiah 27) Isaiah 27:8 KJV
"In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind."
Isaiah 27:8 in Context (Verses 5–11 KJV)
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Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
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¶ Hath 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?*
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In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.**
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By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.*
10
Yet the defenced 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.
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When 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 shew them no favour.