12. For this is what the Lord says:Your injury is incurable;your wound most severe.
13. No one takes up the case for your sores. There is no healing for you.
14. All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you,for I have struck you as an enemy would,with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your enormous guiltand your innumerable sins.
15. Why do you cry out about your injury?Your pain has no cure!I have done these things to youbecause of your enormous guiltand your innumerable sins.
16. Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured, and all your adversaries — all of them —will go off into exile.Those who plunder you will be plundered,and all who raid you will be raided.
17. But I will bring you health and will heal you of your wounds —this is the Lord’s declaration —for they call you Outcast,Zion whom no one cares about.
18. This is what the Lord says:I will certainly restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and show compassion on his dwellings.Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;every citadel will stand on its proper site.
19. Thanksgiving will come out of them,a sound of celebration.I will multiply them, and they will not decrease; I will honor them, and they will not be insignificant.
20. His children will be as in past days;his congregation will be established in My presence.I will punish all his oppressors.
21. Jacob’s leader will be one of them;his ruler will issue from him.I will invite him to Me, and he will approach Me, for who would otherwise risk his life to approach Me?This is the Lord’s declaration.
22. You will be My people,and I will be your God.
23. Look, a storm from the Lord! Wrath has gone out,a churning storm.It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.
24. The Lord’s burning anger will not turn backuntil He has completely fulfilled the purposes of His heart.In time to come you will understand it.