12. In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
13. But the earth will be desolatebecause of its inhabitants,for the fruit of their deeds.
14. Shepherd your people with your staff,the flock of your inheritance,who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land;let them graze in Bashan and Gileadas in the days of old.
15. As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,I will show them marvelous things.
16. The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths;their ears shall be deaf;
17. they shall lick the dust like a serpent,like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,and they shall be in fear of you.
18. Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquityand passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever,because he delights in steadfast love.
19. He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sinsinto the depths of the sea.
20. You will show faithfulness to Jacoband steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathersfrom the days of old.