“Consider now! Call for the wailing women^(A) to come;
    send for the most skillful of them.
¹⁸ Let them come quickly
    and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
    and water streams from our eyelids.^(B)

14 The Lord will have compassion^(A) on Jacob;
    once again he will choose^(B) Israel
    and will settle them in their own land.^(C)
Foreigners^(D) will join them
    and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
² Nations will take them
    and bring^(E) them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations^(F)
    and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives^(G) of their captors
    and rule over their oppressors.^(H)

¹² young men and women,
    old men and children.

¹³ Let them praise the name of the Lord,^(A)
    for his name alone is exalted;
    his splendor^(B) is above the earth and the heavens.^(C)

²⁵ In front are the singers,^(A) after them the musicians;^(B)
    with them are the young women playing the timbrels.^(C)