¹⁹ Indeed, you people who live in Zion and in Jerusalem,^[a] you^[b] will weep no more. How gracious the Lord^[c] will be to you at the sound of your cry! As soon as he hears it, he will answer you. ²⁰ And although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water^[d] of affliction, your teachers won’t hide themselves^[e] anymore, but your own eyes will see your teachers. ²¹ And whether you turn to the right or turn to the left, your ears will hear a message behind you: “This is the way, walk in it.” ²² Then you will defile your carved idols that are overlaid with silver and your images plated with gold. You’ll throw them away like disgusting objects^[f] and say to them, “Away with you!”

²³ He will also provide rain for your seed that you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the ground will be^[g] rich and abundant. At that time,^[h] your cattle will graze in broad meadows, ²⁴ and oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned^[i] fodder that workers will winnow with shovels and forks. ²⁵ And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks and canals^[j] running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

²⁶ Moreover, the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the sun’s light will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days,^[k] when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.