“I have loved^(A) you with an everlasting love;
    I have drawn^(B) you with unfailing kindness.
⁴ I will build you up again,
    and you, Virgin^(C) Israel, will be rebuilt.^(D)
Again you will take up your timbrels^(E)
    and go out to dance^(F) with the joyful.^(G)
5 Again you will plant^(H) vineyards
    on the hills of Samaria;^(I)
the farmers will plant them
    and enjoy their fruit.^(J)
6 There will be a day when watchmen^(K) cry out
    on the hills of Ephraim,
‘Come, let us go up to Zion,
    to the Lord our God.’”^(L)

“Sing^(M) with joy for Jacob;
    shout for the foremost^(N) of the nations.
Make your praises heard, and say,
    ‘Lord, save^(O) your people,
    the remnant^(P) of Israel.’
⁸ See, I will bring them from the land of the north^(Q)
    and gather^(R) them from the ends of the earth.
Among them will be the blind^(S) and the lame,^(T)
    expectant mothers and women in labor;
    a great throng will return.
⁹ They will come with weeping;^(U)
    they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead^(V) them beside streams of water^(W)
    on a level^(X) path where they will not stumble,
because I am Israel’s father,^(Y)
    and Ephraim is my firstborn son.