15. I will make of you a threshing sledge,sharp, new, full of teeth,To thresh the mountains and crush them,to make the hills like chaff.
16. When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them off,the storm shall scatter them.But you shall rejoice in the Lord;in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
17. The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain,their tongues are parched with thirst.I, the Lord, will answer them;I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18. I will open up rivers on the bare heights,and fountains in the broad valleys;I will turn the wilderness into a marshland,and the dry ground into springs of water.
19. In the wilderness I will plant the cedar,acacia, myrtle, and olive;In the wasteland I will set the cypress,together with the plane tree and the pine,
20. That all may see and know,observe and understand,That the hand of the Lord has done this,the Holy One of Israel has created it.