⁹ Only on this condition shall the iniquity of Jacob (Israel) be forgiven and purged, and this shall be the full fruit [God requires] for taking away his sin: that [Israel] should make all the stones of the [idol] altars like chalk stones crushed to pieces, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall not remain standing or rise again.

¹⁰ For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, and there he lies down; he strips its branches and eats its twigs.

¹¹ When its boughs are withered and dry, they are broken off; the women come and set them afire. For they are a people of no understanding or discernment—^[a]witless folk; therefore He Who made them will not have compassion on them, and He Who formed them will show them no favor.