⁹ Then my enemies will turn back^(A)
    when I call for help.^(B)
    By this I will know that God is for me.^(C)

⁴ “What can I do with you, Ephraim?^(A)
    What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears.^(B)

⁵ The Lord, the Lord Almighty—
he touches the earth and it melts,^(A)
    and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
    then sinks like the river of Egypt;^(B)

¹⁶ They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
    spreading its shoots^(A) over the garden;^(B)

²¹ Now no one can look at the sun,^(A)
    bright as it is in the skies
    after the wind has swept them clean.

¹³ Surely the righteous will praise your name,^(A)
    and the upright will live^(B) in your presence.^(C)