Isaiah 27:8

World English Bible (WEB)

In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

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6 In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

7 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or are they killed like those who killed them were killed?

8 In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

9 Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.

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Isaiah 27:8 in every translation

WEB World English Bible: In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
KJV King James Version: In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
BSB Berean Standard Bible: By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
ASV American Standard Version: In measure, when thou sendest them away, thou dost contend with them; he hath removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,
DBY Darby Translation: In measure, when sending her away, didst thou contend with her: he hath taken [her] away with his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
WBS Webster Bible: In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.