2 Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword Found grace in the wilderness— Israel, when aI went to give him rest.”
3 The Lord has appeared1 of old to me, saying: “Yes, aI have loved you with ban everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have cdrawn you.
4 Again aI will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be adorned with your btambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice.
5aYou shall yet plant vines on the mountains of Samaria; The planters shall plant and1 eat them as ordinary food.
6 For there shall be a day When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim, a‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, To the Lord our God.’ ”
7 For thus says the Lord: a“Sing with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O Lord, save Your people, The remnant of Israel!’
8 Behold, I will bring them afrom the north country, And bgather them from the ends of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The woman with child And the one who labors with child, together; A great throng shall return there.
9aThey shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk bby the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My cfirstborn.
10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, And declare it in the1 isles afar off, and say, ‘He who scattered Israel awill gather him, And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’
11 For athe Lord has redeemed Jacob, And ransomed him bfrom the hand of one stronger than he.
I will build . . . thou shalt be built—The combination of the active and passive to express the same fact implies the infallible certainty of its accomplishment. "Build," that is, establish in prosperity (Jeremiah 33:7).
adorned with . . . tabrets— (I Samuel 18:6). Or, "adorn thyself with thy timbrels"; used by damsels on occasions of public rejoicings (Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34). Israel had cast away all instruments of joy in her exile (Psalms 137:4).
dances—holy joy, not carnal mirth.
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