Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.

The grass dries up, the flowers wither, but the decree of our God is forever reliable.”

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

Trust in the Lord from this time forward, even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector!

Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security.

“I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.

Remember what I accomplished in antiquity! Truly I am God, I have no peer; I am God, and there is none like me,

In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the Lord.

You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.

All of your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.

They will rebuild the perpetual ruins and restore the places that were desolate; they will reestablish the ruined cities, the places that have been desolate since ancient times.

the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, who divided the water before them, gaining for himself a lasting reputation,

We existed from ancient times, but you did not rule over them, they were not your subjects.

You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

Indeed, you have made the city into a heap of rubble, the fortified town into a heap of ruins; the fortress of foreigners is no longer a city, it will never be rebuilt.

Now go, write it down on a tablet in their presence, inscribe it on a scroll, so that it might be preserved for a future time as an enduring witness.

For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.

Sinners are afraid in Zion; panic grips the godless. They say, ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire? Who among us can coexist with unquenchable fire?’

Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.

He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.