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Neither be dismayed, O Israel;

For, lo, I will save thee from afar,

And thy seed from the land of their captivity;

And Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease,

And none shall make him afraid.

¹¹For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee;

For I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee,

But I will not make a full end of thee;

For I will correct thee in measure,

And will not utterly destroy thee.

 

¹²For thus saith the Lord:

Thy hurt is incurable,

And thy wound is grievous.

¹³None deemeth of thy wound that it may be bound up;

Thou hast no healing medicines.

¹⁴All thy lovers have forgotten thee,

They seek thee not;

For I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy,

With the chastisement of a cruel one;

For the greatness of thine iniquity,

Because thy sins were increased.

¹⁵Why criest thou for thy hurt,

That thy pain is incurable?

For the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased,

I have done these things unto thee.

¹⁶Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured,

And all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;

And they that spoil thee shall be a spoil,

And all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

¹⁷For I will restore health unto thee,

And I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord;

Because they have called thee an outcast:

'She is ^[1]Zion, there is none that careth for her.'

 

¹⁸Thus saith the Lord:

Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob's tents,

And have compassion on his dwelling-places;

And the city shall be builded upon her own mound,

And the palace shall be inhabited upon its wonted place.

¹⁹And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving

And the voice of them that make merry;

And I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished,

I will also increase them, and they shall not dwindle away.

²⁰Their children also shall be as aforetime,

And their congregation shall be established before Me,

And I will punish all that oppress them.

²¹And their prince shall be of themselves,

And their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them;

And I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto Me;

For who is he that hath pledged his heart

To approach unto Me? saith the Lord.

²²And ye shall be My people,

And I will be your God.

 

²³Behold, a storm of the Lord is gone forth in fury,

A sweeping storm;

It shall whirl upon the head of the wicked.

1. With a play on the meaning, a dry land.

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