¹¹ As for you also, because of ^(A)the blood of my covenant with you,
    ^(B)I will set your prisoners free from ^(C)the waterless pit.
¹² Return to your stronghold, O ^(D)prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that ^(E)I will restore to you double.

²² Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
    your God ^(A)who pleads the cause of his people:
“Behold, I have taken from your hand ^(B)the cup of staggering;
the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
^23 (C)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
    ^(D)who have said to you,
    ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and ^(E)you have made your back like the ground
    and like the street for them to pass over.”

³³ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
^(A)The daughter of Babylon is like ^(B)a threshing floor
    at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while
    and ^(C)the time of her harvest will come.”

^9 (A)saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’
    to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’
^(B)They shall feed along the ways;
    on all bare heights shall be their pasture;

²⁰ to hear ^(A)the groans of the prisoners,
    to set free ^(B)those who were doomed to die,

³³ For the Lord hears the needy
    and ^(A)does not despise his own people who are prisoners.

¹⁷ who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    ^(A)who did not let his prisoners go home?’