Why should the Egyptians say, For evil He has caused them to go up, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them on the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce anger and be moved to pity as to the evil to Your people.
O Jehovah, why do You make us wander from Your ways? You harden our heart from Your fear. For Your servants’ sake, return the tribes of Your inheritance.
And it shall be after I have plucked them up I will return and have pity on them, and I will bring them again, each man to Me, a statement of Jehovah, to be to his inheritance and each man to his land.
How shall I give you up, Ephraim? Shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? Shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart has turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.
Therefore thus says Jehovah: I have returned to Jerusalem with compassions; My house shall be built in it, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts, and a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.
For Jehovah will bring His people justice; and He shall have compassion on His servants, for He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain.