⁴ “Don’t be afraid,
    because you won’t be ashamed;
don’t fear shame,
    for you won’t be humiliated—
because you will forget the disgrace of your youth,
    and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
⁵ For your Maker is your husband;
    the Lord of the Heavenly Armies is his name,
and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
    he is called the God of the whole earth.
⁶ For the Lord has called you back
    like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit,
like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off,”
    says the Lord your God.^[a]

⁷ “For a brief moment I abandoned you;
    but I’ll gather you with great compassion.
⁸ I hid my face from you for a moment in a surge of anger,
    but I will have compassion on you with my^[b] everlasting gracious love,”
        says the Lord your Redeemer.