¹¹ Those the Lord has rescued^(A) will return.
    They will enter Zion with singing;^(B)
    everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy^(C) will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.^(D)

²² This is what your Sovereign Lord says,
    your God, who defends^(A) his people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
    the cup^(B) that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
    you will never drink again.

¹⁰     and those the Lord has rescued^(A) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;^(B)
    everlasting joy^(C) will crown their heads.
Gladness^(D) and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.^(E)

⁸ Who has ever heard of such things?
    Who has ever seen^(A) things like this?
Can a country be born in a day^(B)
    or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor
    than she gives birth to her children.^(C)
9 Do I bring to the moment of birth^(D)
    and not give delivery?” says the Lord.
“Do I close up the womb
    when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
¹⁰ “Rejoice^(E) with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
    all you who love^(F) her;
rejoice greatly with her,
    all you who mourn^(G) over her.
¹¹ For you will nurse^(H) and be satisfied
    at her comforting breasts;^(I)
you will drink deeply
    and delight in her overflowing abundance.”^(J)

¹⁵ I will plant^(A) Israel in their own land,^(B)
    never again to be uprooted^(C)
    from the land I have given them,”^(D)

says the Lord your God.^(E)

⁸ I will signal^(A) for them
    and gather them in.
Surely I will redeem them;
    they will be as numerous^(B) as before.
⁹ Though I scatter them among the peoples,
    yet in distant lands they will remember me.^(C)
They and their children will survive,
    and they will return.