<t /><p class="poetry">I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will bring them together like sheep in a fold,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like a flock in the middle of a pasture;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise.<n id="4" />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>

<p class="poetry">But they do not know what the <sc>Lordsc> is planning;p> <p class="poetry">they do not understand his strategy.p> <p class="poetry">He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed<n id="1" /> at the threshing floor.p>

<p class="poetry">All her carved idols will be smashed to pieces;p> <p class="poetry">all her metal cult statues will be destroyed by fire.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will make a waste heap<n id="2" /> of all her images.p> <p class="poetry">Since<n id="3" /> she gathered the metal<n id="4" /> as a prostitute collects her wages,p> <p class="poetry">the idols will become a prostitute&#8217;s wages again.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>