Promise of Healing

12 For thus saith Jehovah:

Thou art wounded past all healing,

And smitten very sore.

13 There is no one to plead thy cause;

No healing for thy wound,

Thy scars remain unclosed.

14 Thy lovers have all forgotten thee,

They care for thee no more.

I have struck thee as foemen strike,

With chastisement unpitying,

Because of thy manifold guilt

And thy sins that are grown so mighty.

15 Why criest thou over thy wound,

That thy pain is past all healing?

’Tis because of thy manifold guilt

And thy sins that are grown so mighty,

I have done these things unto thee.

16 Devoured shall be therefore all those that devour thee,

Thine enemies all shall go into captivity;

Those that despoil thee themselves shall be spoiled,

And thy plunders I will consign to be plundered.

17 I will cause new flesh to grow over thy wound,

I will heal thy scars, saith Jehovah;

For men have called thee an outcast,

"Our quarry" – for whom none careth.