12. For thus says the Lord:Incurable is your wound,grievous your injury;
13. There is none to plead your case,no remedy for your running sore,no healing for you.
14. All your lovers have forgotten you,they do not seek you out.I struck you as an enemy would strike,punishing you cruelly.
15. Why cry out over your wound?There is no relief for your pain.Because of your great guilt,your numerous sins,I have done this to you.
16. Yet all who devour you shall be devoured,all your enemies shall go into exile.All who plunder you shall become plunder,all who pillage you I will hand over to be pillaged.
17. For I will restore your health;I will heal your injuries—oracle of the Lord.“The outcast” they have called you,“whom no one looks for.”
18. Thus says the Lord:See! I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents,on his dwellings I will have compassion;A city shall be rebuilt upon its own ruins,a citadel restored where it should be.
19. From them will come praise,the sound of people rejoicing.I will increase them, they will not decrease,I will glorify them, they will not be insignificant.