Yahweh Will Deliver Zion

• 6 [fn] “I will assemble the one who limps,
• and I will gather the one who has been scattered,
  • and those whom I have mistreated.
  • 7  and the one driven far away a strong nation,
• and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion
  • from now to forever.
  • 8 [fn] hill of the daughter of Zion,
• to you it will come,
  • and the former dominion will come,
  • the reign of the daughter of Jerusalem.
  • 9  Is there no king in you?
• Has your counselor perished
  • that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?
  • 10  like a woman in labor.
• For now you will go forth from the city,
  • and you will camp in the field;
  • you will go to Babylon.
• There you will be rescued;
  • there Yahweh will redeem you
  • from the hand of your enemies.
  • 11  who are saying, ‘Let her be defiled,
  • and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.’
  • 12  and they do not understand his plan,
• that he has gathered them as sheaves
  • to his threshing floor.
  • 13  for your horn I will make as iron
  • and your hooves as bronze.
• And you will break many peoples in pieces,
  • and their gain you will devote to destruction to Yahweh,
  • and their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.”