12. You will look for your opponents,and won’t find them.Those who fight you will be of no account and will die.
13. I am the Lord your God,who grasps your strong hand,who says to you,Don’t fear; I will help you.
14. Don’t fear, worm of Jacob,people of Israel!I will help you, says the Lord.The holy one of Israel is your redeemer.
15. Look, I’ve made youinto a new threshing tool with sharp teeth.You will thresh mountains and pulverize them;you will reduce hills to straw.
16. When you winnow them,the wind will carry them off;the tempest will scatter them.You will rejoice in the Lordand take pride in the holy one of Israel.
17. The poor and the needy seek water, and there is none;their tongues are parched with thirst.I, the Lord, will respond to them;I, the God of Israel, won’t abandon them.
18. I will open streams on treeless hilltopsand springs in valleys.I will make the desert into pondsand dry land into cascades of water.
19. I will plant in the desert cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees;I will put in the wilderness cypress, elm, and pine as well,