^{3 Ref} From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

^{4 Ref} I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.

^{5 Ref} Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

^{6 Ref} For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.

^{7 Ref} For the Lord has said, Make a glad song for Jacob and give a cry on the top of the mountains: give the news, give praise, and say, The Lord has given salvation to his people, even to the rest of Israel.

^{8 Ref} See, I will take them from the north country, and get them from the inmost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the feeble-footed, the woman with child and her who is in birth-pains together: a very great army, they will come back here.

^{9 Ref} They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

^{10 Ref} Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.

^{11 Ref} For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he.

^{12 Ref} So they will come with songs on the high places, flowing together to the good things of the Lord, to the grain and the wine and the oil, to the young ones of the flock and of the herd: their souls will be like a watered garden, and they will have no more sorrow.

^{13 Ref} Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.

^{14 Ref} I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.