Yahweh will rescue his people

8 You who are our enemies,

do not gloat/rejoice about what has happened to us,

because even if we have experienced disasters,

those disasters will end and we will be restored.

Even if it is as though we are sitting in the darkness,

Yahweh will be our light.

9 We must be patient while Yahweh punishes us

because we have sinned against him.

But later, it will be as though he will go to court and defend us,

and he will make sure that the judge makes a right decision about us.

It will be as though he will bring us out into the light,

and we will see it when he rescues us.

10 Our enemies will also see that, and they will be disgraced

because they ridiculed us, saying

“Why is [RHQ] Yahweh, that God of yours, not helping you?”

But with our own eyes we will see them when they are defeated;

we will see them trampled

like [SIM] mud in the streets.

11 You people of Israel, at that time your cities will be rebuilt,

and your territory will become larger.

12 People from many countries will come to honor you:

people from Assyria and from near the Euphrates River in the east and from Egypt in the south,

from distant seas,

and from many mountains.

13 But the other countries on the earth will become desolate

because of the evil things that their people have done.