<p class="poetry">They will come back shedding tears of contrition.p> <p class="poetry">I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will lead them besides streams of water,p> <p class="poetry">along smooth paths where they will never stumble.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will do this because I am Israel&#8217;s father;p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim<n id="3" /> is my firstborn son.&#8217;&#8221;p>

The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown<n id="1" /> and all the terraced fields<n id="2" /> out to the Kidron Valley<n id="3" /> on the east as far north<n id="4" /> as the Horse Gate<n id="5" /> will be included within this city that is sacred to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="6" /> The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be like an overflowing stream.p> <p class="poetry">They will overwhelm the whole country and everything in it like a flood.p> <p class="poetry">They will overwhelm the cities and their inhabitants.p> <p class="poetry">People will cry out in alarm.p> <p class="poetry">Everyone living in the country will cry out in pain.p>