“Don’t laugh when we suffer,
    you enemies of ours!
We have fallen.
    But we’ll get up.
Even though we sit in the dark,
    the Lord will give us light.
⁹ We’ve sinned against the Lord.
    So he is angry with us.
His anger will continue until he takes up our case.
    Then he’ll do what is right for us.
He’ll bring us out into the light.
    Then we’ll see him save us.
¹⁰ Our enemies will see it too.
    And they will be put to shame.
After all, they said to us,
    ‘Where is the Lord your God?’
But we will see them destroyed.
    Soon they will be stomped on
    like mud in the streets.”

¹¹ People of Jerusalem, the time will come
    when your walls will be rebuilt.
    Land will be added to your territory.
¹² At that time your people will come back to you.
    They’ll return from Assyria
    and the cities of Egypt.
They’ll come from the countries
    between Egypt and the Euphrates River.
They’ll return from the lands
    between the seas.
They’ll come back from the countries
    between the mountains.
¹³ But the rest of the earth will be deserted.
    The people who live in it
    have done many evil things.