²¹ Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.

¹⁶ In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.

¹⁷ The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

⁴ Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.

²³ Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.

¹² For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

⁹ But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.

¹⁰ So have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and at peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.

³ Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

²¹ And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

²⁰ I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.

¹⁵ So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

¹ The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

³² Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

¹⁶ Now keep where you are and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.

²⁴ Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.

¹² Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

¹³ The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

¹⁹ Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

¹¹ Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

¹² Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

⁸ Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together,

¹ <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream.

² Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

³ The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.

¹ After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.