Our LORD, we ask you to bless our people again, and let us be like streams in the Southern Desert.
It seemed like a dream when the LORD brought us back to the city of Zion.
Our LORD and our God, you save us! Please bring us back home and don't be angry.
Those who were lame will leap around like deer; tongues once silent will begin to shout. Water will rush through the desert.
I will make rivers flow on mountain peaks. I will send streams to fill the valleys. Dry and barren land will flow with springs and become a lake.
I am creating something new. There it is! Do you see it? I have put roads in deserts, streams in thirsty lands.
and accept your worship. Then I will gather you from all the nations where I scattered you, and you will return to Jerusalem.
Some day I will let my people from both Israel and Judah return to the land I gave their ancestors.”
Israel and Judah will unite and choose one leader. Then they will take back their land, and this will be a great day for Jezreel.
the river stopped flowing, and the water started piling up at the town of Adam near Zarethan. No water flowed towards the Dead Sea, and the priests stood in the middle of the dry river bed near Jericho while everyone else crossed over.