upon them
shall lead them, even by the springs of waters shall he guide them, and make
the mountains a way before them. Behold, the peoples shall come from all
parts, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
Let the heavens give glory to God; let the earth be joyful; for it hath
pleased the Lord to comfort His people, and He will have mercy upon the poor
who hope in Him.

"Yet Zion dared to say: The Lord hath forsaken me, and hath forgotten me.
Can a woman forget her child, that she should not have compassion on the son
of her womb? but if she forget, yet will not I forget thee, O Sion. I will
bear thee always between my hands, and thy walls are continually before me.
They that shall build thee are come, and thy destroyers shall go forth of
thee. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold; all these gather
themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt
surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament. Thy waste and thy
desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall even now be too
narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and the children thou shalt have after
thy barrenness shall say again in thy ears: The place is too strait for me:
give place to me that I may dwell. Then shalt thou say in thy heart: Who
hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a
captive, and removing to and fro? and who brought up these? Behold, I was
left alone; these, where had they been? And the Lord shall say to thee:
Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to
the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms and in their bosoms.
And kings shall be their nursing fathers, and queens their nursing mothers;
they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up
the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall
not be