³⁶ The Lord will vindicate his people^(A)
    and relent^(B) concerning his servants^(C)
when he sees their strength is gone
    and no one is left, slave^(D) or free.^[a]

⁴³ Rejoice,^(A) you nations, with his people,^[a][b]
    for he will avenge the blood of his servants;^(B)
he will take vengeance on his enemies^(C)
    and make atonement for his land and people.^(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.

“It is I, proclaiming victory,
    mighty to save.”^(E)

⁴ It was for me the day of vengeance;^(A)
    the year for me to redeem had come.

²¹ A cry is heard on the barren heights,^(A)
    the weeping^(B) and pleading of the people of Israel,
because they have perverted their ways
    and have forgotten^(C) the Lord their God.

²² “Return,^(D) faithless people;
    I will cure^(E) you of backsliding.”^(F)

“Yes, we will come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.
²³ Surely the idolatrous commotion on the hills^(G)
    and mountains is a deception;
surely in the Lord our God
    is the salvation^(H) of Israel.

⁴ “I will heal^(A) their waywardness^(B)
    and love them freely,^(C)
    for my anger has turned away^(D) from them.
⁵ I will be like the dew^(E) to Israel;
    he will blossom like a lily.^(F)
Like a cedar of Lebanon^(G)
    he will send down his roots;^(H)
6     his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,^(I)
    his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.^(J)
7 People will dwell again in his shade;^(K)
    they will flourish like the grain,
they will blossom^(L) like the vine—
    Israel’s fame will be like the wine^(M) of Lebanon.^(N)