¹² “For thus says the Lord:
Your hurt is incurable,
    and your wound is grievous.
¹³ There is none to uphold your cause,
    no medicine for your wound,
    no healing for you.
¹⁴ All your lovers have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy,
    the punishment of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
    because your sins are flagrant.
¹⁵ Why do you cry out over your hurt?
    Your pain is incurable.
Because your guilt is great,
    because your sins are flagrant,
    I have done these things to you.
¹⁶ Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured,
    and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
those who despoil you shall become a spoil,
    and all who prey on you I will make a prey.
¹⁷ For I will restore health to you,
    and your wounds I will heal,
                says the Lord,
because they have called you an outcast:
    ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

¹⁸ “Thus says the Lord:
Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob,
    and have compassion on his dwellings;
the city shall be rebuilt upon its mound,
    and the palace shall stand where it used to be.
¹⁹ Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,
    and the voices of those who make merry.
I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
    I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.
²⁰ Their children shall be as they were of old,
    and their congregation shall be established before me;
    and I will punish all who oppress them.
²¹ Their prince shall be one of themselves,
    their ruler shall come forth from their midst;
I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me,
    for who would dare of himself to approach me?
                says the Lord.
²² And you shall be my people,
    and I will be your God.”