Yahweh Will Show Mercy

• 18 Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy,
• for Yahweh is a God of justice;
  • blessed are all those who wait for him.
  • 19 For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem, you will surely not weep.
• Surely he will be gracious to you;
  • when he hears the sound of your cry, he will answer you.
  • 20 And the Lord will give you the bread of distress and the water of oppression,
• but[fn] your teachers will not hide themselves[fn] any longer.
  • And your eyes shall see[fn] your teachers.
  • 21 And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, “this is the way; walk in it,”
• when you go to your right
  • and when you go to your left.
  • 22 And you will defile the plating of your silver idols and the covering of your gold image.
• You will scatter them like contaminated things;[fn]
  • you will say to it, “Filth!”[fn]
  • 23 And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fertile .[fn]
• On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures;[fn]
  • 24 and the oxen and the donkeys that till[fn] the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
  • 25 And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill, watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.
  • 26 And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days,
• on the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people,
  • and he heals the wound of his blow.