“Sing for joy for Jacob with gladness,
    and shout out for the head of the nations.
Proclaim, praise, and say,
    ‘Save, O Yahweh, your people, the remnant of Israel.’
⁸ Look, I am going to bring them from the land of the north,
    and I will gather them from the remotest part of the earth.
Among them the blind, and the lame,
    those who are pregnant, and those who give birth,
together, a great assembly,
    they will return here.
⁹ With weeping they will come,
    and with pleas for mercy I will bring them;
I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path.
    They will not stumble in it,
for I have become to Israel a father,
    and Ephraim, he is my firstborn.”
¹⁰ Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations,
    and declare in the coastlands from afar, and say,
“The scatterer of Israel will gather him,
    and he will keep him as a shepherd his flock.
¹¹ For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob,
    and he has redeemed him from the hand of the person stronger^[a] than he.
¹² And they will come,
    and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion,
    and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh,
over the grain, and over the wine, and over the olive oil,
    and over the young ones of the flock, and over the cattle.
And their life will become like a well-watered garden,
    and they will never languish again.”
¹³ “Then the young woman will rejoice in the dancing in a ring,
    and the young men and the old men together.
And I will turn their mourning to jubilation,
    and I will comfort them,
    and I will gladden them from their sorrow.
¹⁴ And I will saturate the appetite of the priests with fatness,
    and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” declares^[b] Yahweh.