MLV(i)
3 Jehovah appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you.
4 Again I will build you and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. Again you will be adorned with your tambourine and will go forth in the dances of those who make merry. 5 Again you will plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant and will enjoy it. 6 For there will be a day that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim will cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.
7 For Jehovah says thus: Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout for the chief of the nations. Proclaim, praise and say, O Jehovah, save your people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the outermost parts of the earth and with them the blind man and the lame man, the woman with child and she who travails with child together. They will return here a great company.
9 They will come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O you* nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For Jehovah has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 12 And they will come and sing in the height of Zion and will flow to the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain and to the new wine and to the oil and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul will be as a watered garden and they will not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance and the young men and the old together, for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, says Jehovah.
4 Again I will build you and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. Again you will be adorned with your tambourine and will go forth in the dances of those who make merry. 5 Again you will plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant and will enjoy it. 6 For there will be a day that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim will cry, Arise and let us go up to Zion to Jehovah our God.
7 For Jehovah says thus: Sing with gladness for Jacob and shout for the chief of the nations. Proclaim, praise and say, O Jehovah, save your people, the remnant of Israel. 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the outermost parts of the earth and with them the blind man and the lame man, the woman with child and she who travails with child together. They will return here a great company.
9 They will come with weeping. And I will lead them with supplications. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they will not stumble. For I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of Jehovah, O you* nations and declare it in the isles afar off and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For Jehovah has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he. 12 And they will come and sing in the height of Zion and will flow to the goodness of Jehovah, to the grain and to the new wine and to the oil and to the young of the flock and of the herd. And their soul will be as a watered garden and they will not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance and the young men and the old together, for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness and my people will be satisfied with my goodness, says Jehovah.