4:6 “In that day,” says the Lord, “I will gather the lame,
and assemble the outcasts whom I injured. 1
4:12 But they do not know what the Lord is planning;
they do not understand his strategy.
He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed 2 at the threshing floor.
1 sn The exiles of the nation are compared to lame and injured sheep.
2 tn The words “to be threshed” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation to make it clear that the