13. And the land will be in desolation, because of its inhabitants and because of the fruit of their intentions.
14. With your rod, pasture your people, the flock of your inheritance, living alone in the narrow forest, in the midst of Carmel. They will graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the ancient days.
15. As in the days of your departure from the land of Egypt, I will reveal miracles to him.
16. The nations will look, and they will be confounded at the strength of them all. They will place hand over mouth; their ears will be deaf.
17. They will lick the dust like serpents, and, like the creeping things of the earth, they will be disturbed in their houses. They will dread the Lord our God, and they will fear you.
18. What God is like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the sin of the remnant of your inheritance? No longer will he send forth his fury, because he is willing to be merciful.
19. He will turn back and have mercy on us. He will put away our iniquities, and he will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
20. You will give the truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, which you swore to our fathers from the ancient days.