^{3 Ref} To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'

^{4 Ref} And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.

^{5 Ref} And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner `are' your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.