Yahweh Will Deliver Zion

• 6 “In that day,” declares Yahweh,[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 I will make the one who limps a remnant,
  • and the one driven far away a strong nation,
• and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion
  • from now to forever.
• 8 And you, O Migdal-Eder,[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 So then, why do you shout a loud shout?
  • Is there no king in you?
• Has your counselor perished
  • that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?
• 10 Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion,
  • 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 And now, many nations are gathered against you
  • who are saying, ‘Let her be defiled,
  • and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.’
• 12 But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh,
  • and they do not understand his plan,
• that he has gathered them as sheaves
  • to his threshing floor.
• 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion,
  • 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.”