<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Zion will be freed by justice,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and her returnees by righteousness.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!<n id="1" />

A remnant will come back, a remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.<n id="1" />

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Remember this, so you can be brave!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Think about it, you rebels!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;A protector<n id="1" /> comes to Zion,p> <p class="poetry">to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">I will attack you;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will purify your metal with flux.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will remove all your slag.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The people did not return to the one who struck them,p> <p class="poetry">they did not seek reconciliation<n id="1" /> with the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p>

<p class="poetry">At that time<n id="1" /> you will say:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I praise you, O <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">for even though you were angry with me,p> <p class="poetry">your anger subsided, and you consoled me.p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has a plan,p> <p class="poetry">and who can possibly frustrate it?p> <p class="poetry">His hand is ready to strike,p> <p class="poetry">and who can possibly stop it?<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will strike Egypt, striking and then healing them. They will turn to the <sc>Lordsc> and he will listen to their prayers<n id="1" /> and heal them.p>

<p class="poetry">The watchman replies,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Morning is coming, but then night.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">If you want to ask, ask;p> <p class="poetry">come back again.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will give discernment to the one who makes judicial decisions,p> <p class="poetry">and strength to those who defend the city from attackers.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">In just a very short time<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Lebanon will turn into an orchard,p> <p class="poetry">and the orchard will be considered a forest.<n id="2" />p>

Look, I will take control of his mind;<n id="1" /> he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down<n id="2" /> with a sword in his own land.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">He will go back the way he came &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he will not enter this city,&#8217; says the <sc>Lord.sc>p>

<p class="poetry">I look, but there is no one,p> <p class="poetry">among them there is no one who serves as an adviser,p> <p class="poetry">that I might ask questions and receive answers.p>

<p class="poetry">From this day forward I am he;p> <p class="poetry">no one can deliver from my power;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will act, and who can prevent it?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud,p> <p class="poetry">the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Come back to me, for I protect<n id="2" /> you.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">who frustrates the omens of the empty talkers<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and humiliates<n id="2" /> the omen readers,p> <p class="poetry">who overturns the counsel of the wise men<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and makes their advice<n id="4" /> seem foolish,p>