680 B
680 B
it will again be destroyed
AT: "armies will again destroy the land of Israel" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
as a terebinth or an oak is cut down and whose trunk remains, the holy seed is in its stump
AT: "Like a tree stump with new shoots, the people of Israel will be a holy people who obey God." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile)
terebinth
a kind of oak tree (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-unknown)
trunk...stump
The trunk is the thick main stem of a tree, and stump is the part of a tree that remains in the ground after the tree is cut down. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet)