⁶ Those who go out weeping,^(A)
    carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
    carrying sheaves with them.

² The people walking in darkness^(A)
    have seen a great light;^(B)
on those living in the land of deep darkness^(C)
    a light has dawned.^(D)
3 You have enlarged the nation^(E)
    and increased their joy;^(F)
they rejoice before you
    as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
    when dividing the plunder.^(G)

⁵ For his anger^(A) lasts only a moment,^(B)
    but his favor lasts a lifetime;^(C)
weeping^(D) may stay for the night,
    but rejoicing comes in the morning.^(E)

¹³ “Yet if you devote your heart^(A) to him
    and stretch out your hands^(B) to him,^(C)
14 if you put away^(D) the sin that is in your hand
    and allow no evil^(E) to dwell in your tent,^(F)
15 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;^(G)
    you will stand firm^(H) and without fear.^(I)
16 You will surely forget your trouble,^(J)
    recalling it only as waters gone by.^(K)
17 Life will be brighter than noonday,^(L)
    and darkness will become like morning.^(M)

“they are before the throne of God^(A)
    and serve him^(B) day and night in his temple;^(C)
and he who sits on the throne^(D)
    will shelter them with his presence.^(E)
16 ‘Never again will they hunger;
    never again will they thirst.^(F)
The sun will not beat down on them,’^[a]
    nor any scorching heat.^(G)
17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne
    will be their shepherd;^(H)
‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’^[b](I)
    ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’^[c]”^(J)

⁴ “In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together^(A)
    will go in tears^(B) to seek^(C) the Lord their God.
⁵ They will ask the way^(D) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come^(E) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant^(F)
    that will not be forgotten.