"Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me." (Isaiah 27:5)
The sad result for a nation that rejects the Lord:
"When he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10Yet 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. 11When 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."
(Isaiah 27:9b-11)
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