VIN(i)
1 Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time, the LORD who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
2 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreams speak falsely, they comfort in vain; therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats. For the LORD of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah and made them as His splendid horse in battle.
4 From him will come the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
5 And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of the streets in the battle. They will fight, because the LORD is with them, and they will put to shame the riders on horses.
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save. And I will bring them back, because I have compassion on them, and they will be as if I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.
7 And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.
8 I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will increase as they have increased.
9 Though I sow them among the nations, in the distant places they will remember me, and they will stay alive with their children, and they will return.
10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won’t be room enough for them.
11 He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
12 I will make them strong in the LORD, and in his name they will walk, declares the LORD.