⁴ They will rebuild the old ruins.
    They will raise up the former devastated places.
They will repair the ruined cities
    that have been devastated for many generations.
⁵ Strangers will stand and feed your flocks.
    Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
⁶ But you will be called Yahweh’s priests.
    Men will call you the servants of our God.
You will eat the wealth of the nations.
    You will boast in their glory.
⁷ Instead of your shame you will have double.
    Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they will possess double.
    Everlasting joy will be to them.
⁸ “For I, Yahweh, love justice.
    I hate robbery and iniquity.
I will give them their reward in truth
    and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
⁹ Their offspring will be known among the nations,
    and their offspring among the peoples.
All who see them will acknowledge them,
    that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”