5 Our just Lord in the midst thereof will not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning he will give his judgement into light, and it shall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known the confusion.📜💬📚

Purification of the Nations

6 I have destroyed the Gentiles, & their corners are dissipated: I have made their ways desert, whiles there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, not a man remaining, nor any inhabiter.📜💬📚

7 I said: Nevertheless thou shalt fear me, thou shalt receive discipline: and her habitation shall not perish for all things, wherein I have visited her: but yet rising early they corrupted all their cogitations.📜💬📚

8 Wherefore expect me, saith our Lord, in the day of my resurrection till hereafter, because my judgement to assemble the Gentiles, and to gather kingdoms: & to pour upon them mine indignation, all the wrath of my fury: for in the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.📜💬📚

A Faithful Remnant

9 Because then will I restore to the peoples, a chosen lip, that all may invocate in the name of the Lord, & may serve him with one shoulder.📜💬📚

10 Beyond the rivers of Æthiopia, thence shall my suppliants the children of my dispersed bring me a gift.📜💬📚

11 In that day thou shalt not be confounded upon all thine inventions, wherein thou hast prevaricated against me: because then will I take away out of the midst of thee the lofty speakers of thy pride, & thou shalt add no more to be exalted in my holy mount.📜💬📚

12 And I will leave in the midst of thee a people poor and needy: & they shall hope in the name of our Lord.📜💬📚

13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, neither shall they speak leasing, and deceitful tongue shall not be found in their mouth: because they shall feed, and shall lie down, and there shall be none to make them afraid.📜💬📚

Israel's Restoration

14 Praise o daughter of Sion: make jubilation Israel: be glad & rejoice in all thy heart o daughter of Jerusalem.📜💬📚

15 Our Lord hath taken away thy judgement, he hath turned away thine enemies: the king of Israel our Lord in the midst of thee, thou shalt fear evil no more.📜💬📚

16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not: to Sion, let not thy hands be dissolved.📜💬📚

17 Our Lord thy God in the midst of thee strong, he will save: he will rejoice upon thee in gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will be joyful upon thee in praise.📜💬📚

18 The triflers that were departed from thee, I will gather together, because they were of thee: that thou mayst no more have reproach for them.📜💬📚

19 Behold I will kill all that have afflicted thee at that time: and I will save the halt, & her that was cast out I will gather: and I will make them into praise, and into name, in all the land of their confusion.📜💬📚

20 In that time, when I will bring you: and in the time, that I will gather you: for I will give you into a name, and into praise to all the people of the earth, when I shall convert your captivity before your eyes, saith our Lord.📜💬📚