^16 (A)And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like ^(B)doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.

¹⁵ O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a ^(A)remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our ^(B)guilt, ^(C)for none can stand before you because of this.”

Him Whom They Have Pierced

¹⁰ “And ^(A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^(B)pleas for mercy, so that, ^(C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^(D)they shall mourn for him, ^(E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. ^11 (F)On that day ^(G)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great ^(H)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. ¹² The land shall mourn, ^(I)each family^[a] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^(J)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹³ the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of ^(K)the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹⁴ and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

³¹ And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah ^(A)shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

³¹ Then ^(A)you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.

^8 (A)“Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations ^(B)some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, ⁹ then those of you who escape ^(C)will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how ^(D)I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes ^(E)that go whoring after their idols. ^(F)And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

^4 (A)“In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, ^(B)the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, ^(C)weeping as they come, and they ^(D)shall seek the Lord their God. ^5 (E)They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, ^(F)saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an ^(G)everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’