Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. - Isaiah Berlin

So shall my Word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty." Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."

As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.