“In an overflow of wrath I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I shall have compassion on you,” said ืืืื, your Redeemer.
And the ransomed of ืืืืย shall return and enter Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Sing, O heavens, rejoice, O earth! And break out in singing, O mountains! For ืืืืย shall comfort His people and have compassion on His afflicted ones.
And it shall be said in that day, “See, this is our Elohim. We have waited for Him, and He saves us. This is ืืืื, we have waited for Him, let us be glad and rejoice in His deliverance.”
In that day “SET-APART TO ืืืืย ” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. And the pots in the House of ืืืืย shall be like the bowls before the altar.
“Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, and fall among the slain.” With all this His displeasure has not turned back, and His hand is still stretched out.
I greatly rejoice in ืืืื, my being exults in my Elohim. For He has put garments of deliverance on me, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
You shall meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways. See, You were wroth when we sinned in them a long time. And should we be saved?
‘And out of them shall arise thanksgiving and the voice of those who are laughing. And I shall increase them, and they shall not diminish. And I shall esteem them, and they shall not be small.
“Thus said ืืืืย of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months, are to be joy and gladness, and pleasant appointed times for the house of Yehudฬฑ
Then he said to them, “Go, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom none is prepared. For this day is set-apart to our ืืืื. Do not be sad, for the joy of ืืืืย is your strength.”
“And the sons of foreigners shall build your walls, and their sovereigns serve you. For in My wrath I have smitten you, but in My delight I shall have compassion on you.
“Then shall a maiden rejoice in a dance, and young men and old, together. And I shall turn their mourning to joy, and shall comfort them, and shall make them rejoice from their sorrow,
‘Therefore thus said ืืืื, “I shall return to Yerushalayim with compassion. My house shall be built in it,” declares ืืืืย of hosts, “and a surveyor’s line be stretched out over Yerushalayim.” ’