¹¹ I am with you^(A) and will save you,’
    declares the Lord.
‘Though I completely destroy all the nations
    among which I scatter you,
    I will not completely destroy^(B) you.
I will discipline^(C) you but only in due measure;
    I will not let you go entirely unpunished.’^(D)

“‘Your wound^(E) is incurable,
    your injury beyond healing.^(F)
13 There is no one to plead your cause,^(G)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing^(H) for you.
¹⁴ All your allies^(I) have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you.
I have struck you as an enemy^(J) would
    and punished you as would the cruel,^(K)
because your guilt is so great
    and your sins^(L) so many.
¹⁵ Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?^(M)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.^(N)

⁷ therefore the Lord is about to bring against them
    the mighty floodwaters^(A) of the Euphrates—
    the king of Assyria^(B) with all his pomp.^(C)
It will overflow all its channels,
    run over all its banks^(D)
8 and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,^(E)
    passing through it and reaching up to the neck.
Its outspread wings^(F) will cover the breadth of your land,
    Immanuel^[a]!”^(G)

¹⁸ Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?^(A)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.^(B)

“Virgin Daughter^(A) Zion^(B)
    despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head^(C) as you flee.
²³ Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?^(D)
    Against whom have you raised your voice^(E)
and lifted your eyes in pride?^(F)
    Against the Holy One^(G) of Israel!
²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots^(H)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights^(I) of Lebanon.^(J)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.^(K)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.
²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands^[a]
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up^(L) all the streams of Egypt.^(M)’

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained^(N) it.
In days of old I planned^(O) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(P)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(Q) sprouting on the roof,^(R)
    scorched^[b] before it grows up.

²⁸ “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go^(S)
    and how you rage^(T) against me.
²⁹ Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence^(U) has reached my ears,
I will put my hook^(V) in your nose^(W)
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.^(X)

“This year^(Z) you will eat what grows by itself,
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year^(AA) sow and reap,
    plant vineyards^(AB) and eat their fruit.^(AC)
31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root^(AD) below and bear fruit^(AE) above.
³² For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,^(AF)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.^(AG)
The zeal^(AH) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

“He will not enter this city^(AI)
    or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
    or build a siege ramp^(AJ) against it.
³⁴ By the way that he came he will return;^(AK)
    he will not enter this city,”
declares the Lord.
³⁵ “I will defend^(AL) this city and save it,
    for my sake^(AM) and for the sake of David^(AN) my servant!”

²⁸ They enter Aiath;
    they pass through Migron;^(A)
    they store supplies^(B) at Mikmash.^(C)
29 They go over the pass, and say,
    “We will camp overnight at Geba.^(D)”
Ramah^(E) trembles;
    Gibeah^(F) of Saul flees.^(G)
30 Cry out, Daughter Gallim!^(H)
    Listen, Laishah!
    Poor Anathoth!^(I)
31 Madmenah is in flight;
    the people of Gebim take cover.
³² This day they will halt at Nob;^(J)
    they will shake their fist^(K)
at the mount of Daughter Zion,^(L)
    at the hill of Jerusalem.