Isaiah 27:9-11

Expanded Bible

⁹ This is how ·Israel’s [^LJacob’s] guilt will be forgiven;
    this is how its sins will be taken away:
·Israel [^LHe] will crush the rocks of the altar [^Cpagan altars] to dust,
    and no ·Asherah idols [^LAsherahs; ^Csacred trees or poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah] or ·altars [incense altars] will be left standing.
¹⁰ ·At that time [^LIn that day] the ·strong, walled [fortified] city will be ·empty [desolate]
    an abandoned settlement, empty like a ·desert [wilderness; 17:9; 32:14, 19].
Calves will eat grass there.
    They will lie down there
    and ·eat leaves from [strip bare] the branches.
¹¹ The limbs will become dry and break off,
    so women will use them for firewood.
The people ·refuse to understand [lack understanding/discernment],
    so ·their Creator [the one who made them] will not comfort them;
·their Maker [the one who formed them] will not ·be kind [show favor] to them.