¹⁴ Shepherd your people with your staff,
    the flock of your heritage,
    who dwell by themselves in a forest,
    in the middle of fertile pasture land, let them feed;
    in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
¹⁵ “As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt,
    I will show them marvelous things.”
¹⁶ The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might.
    They will lay their hand on their mouth.
    Their ears will be deaf.
¹⁷ They will lick the dust like a serpent.
    Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens.
    They will come with fear to Yahweh our God,
    and will be afraid because of you.
¹⁸ Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity,
    and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage?
He doesn’t retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in loving kindness.
¹⁹ He will again have compassion on us.
    He will tread our iniquities under foot;
    and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
²⁰ You will give truth to Jacob,
    and mercy to Abraham,
    as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.