<p class="poetry">You were once abandonedp> <p class="poetry">and despised, with no one passing through,p> <p class="poetry">but I will make you<n id="1" /> a permanent source of pridep> <p class="poetry">and joy to coming generations.p>

<p class="poetry">They will rebuild the perpetual ruinsp> <p class="poetry">and restore the places that were desolate;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will reestablish the ruined cities,p> <p class="poetry">the places that have been desolate since ancient times.p>

<p class="poetry">No one will live there again;p> <p class="poetry">no one will ever reside there again.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No bedouin<n id="2" /> will camp<n id="3" /> there,p> <p class="poetry">no shepherds will rest their flocks<n id="4" /> there.p>

<p class="poetry">Night and day it will burn;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its smoke will ascend continually.p> <p class="poetry">Generation after generation it will be a wastelandp> <p class="poetry">and no one will ever pass through it again.p>

<p class="poetry">He assigns them their allotment;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he measures out their assigned place.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They will live there<n id="3" /> permanently;p> <p class="poetry">they will settle in it through successive generations.p>

<p class="poetry">For a moth will eat away at them like clothes;p> <p class="poetry">a clothes moth will devour them like wool.p> <p class="poetry">But the vindication I provide<n id="1" /> will be permanent;p> <p class="poetry">the deliverance I give will last.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will reestablish the ancient foundations.p> <p class="poetry">You will be called, &#8216;The one who repairs broken walls,p> <p class="poetry">the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My dwelling place<n id="1" /> is removed and taken away<n id="2" /> from mep> <p class="poetry">like a shepherd&#8217;s tent.p> <p class="poetry">I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">from the loom he cuts me off.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You turn day into night and end my life.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Who acts and carries out decrees?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Who<n id="2" /> summons the successive generations from the beginning?p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, am present at the very beginning,p> <p class="poetry">and at the very end &#8211; I am the one.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Wake up! Wake up!p> <p class="poetry">Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity!p> <p class="poetry">Did you not smash<n id="2" /> the Proud One?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Did you not<n id="4" /> wound the sea monster?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">He was led away after an unjust trial<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">but who even cared?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">because of the rebellion of his own<n id="4" /> people he was wounded.p>