<p class="poetry">It will be a day for rebuilding your walls;p> <p class="poetry">in that day your boundary will be extended.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;I will gather the lame,p> <p class="poetry">and assemble the outcasts whom I injured.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will destroy<n id="1" /> your horses from your midst,p> <p class="poetry">and smash your chariots.p>

<p class="poetry">Residents of Lachish,<n id="1" /> hitch the horses to the chariots!p> <p class="poetry">You<n id="2" /> influenced Daughter Zion<n id="3" /> to sin,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">for Israel&#8217;s rebellious deeds can be traced back<n id="5" /> to you!p>

<p class="poetry">Someday these sinners will cry to the <sc>Lordsc> for help,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but he will not answer them.p> <p class="poetry">He will hide his face from them at that time,p> <p class="poetry">because they have done such wicked deeds.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">In the future<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s Temple Mount will be the most important mountain of all;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">it will be more prominent than other hills.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">People will stream to it.p>

<p class="poetry">They are determined to be experts at doing evil;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">government officials and judges take bribes,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">prominent men make demands,p> <p class="poetry">and they all do what is necessary to satisfy them.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">In that day people<n id="1" /> will come to you<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">from Assyria as far as<n id="3" /> Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">from Egypt as far as the Euphrates River,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">from the seacoasts<n id="5" /> and the mountains.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">There is no other God like you!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You<n id="2" /> forgive sinp> <p class="poetry">and pardon<n id="3" /> the rebellionp> <p class="poetry">of those who remain among your people.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You do not remain angry forever,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">but delight in showing loyal love.p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore the <sc>Lordsc> says this: &#8220;Look, I am devising disaster for this nation!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You will no longer<n id="3" /> walk proudly,p> <p class="poetry">for it will be a time of catastrophe.p>

<p class="poetry">In that day people will sing this taunt song to you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they will mock you with this lament:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;We are completely destroyed;p> <p class="poetry">they sell off<n id="2" /> the property of my people.p> <p class="poetry">How they remove it from me!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They assign our fields to the conqueror.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>