⁶ “I will strengthen^(A) Judah
    and save the tribes of Joseph.
I will restore them
    because I have compassion^(B) on them.^(C)
They will be as though
    I had not rejected them,
for I am the Lord their God
    and I will answer^(D) them.
⁷ The Ephraimites will become like warriors,
    and their hearts will be glad as with wine.^(E)
Their children will see it and be joyful;
    their hearts will rejoice^(F) in the Lord.
⁸ I will signal^(G) for them
    and gather them in.
Surely I will redeem them;
    they will be as numerous^(H) as before.
⁹ Though I scatter them among the peoples,
    yet in distant lands they will remember me.^(I)
They and their children will survive,
    and they will return.
¹⁰ I will bring them back from Egypt
    and gather them from Assyria.^(J)
I will bring them to Gilead^(K) and Lebanon,
    and there will not be room^(L) enough for them.

¹⁶ “‘But all who devour^(A) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.^(B)
Those who plunder^(C) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.

¹⁰ “‘So do not be afraid,^(A) Jacob my servant;^(B)
    do not be dismayed, Israel,’
declares the Lord.
‘I will surely save^(C) you out of a distant place,
    your descendants from the land of their exile.
Jacob will again have peace and security,^(D)
    and no one will make him afraid.^(E)

²     for true and just are his judgments.^(A)
He has condemned the great prostitute^(B)
    who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”^(C)

⁶ for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets,^(A)
    and you have given them blood to drink^(B) as they deserve.”