5. Each nation worships and obeys its own god, but we will worship and obey the Lord our God for ever and ever.
6. “The time is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will gather together the people I punished, those who have suffered in exile.
7. They are crippled and far from home, but I will make a new beginning with those who are left, and they will become a great nation. I will rule over them on Mount Zion from that time on and for ever.”
8. And you, Jerusalem, where God, like a shepherd, watches over his people, will once again be the capital of the kingdom that was yours.
9. Why do you cry out so loudly? Why are you suffering like a woman in labour? Is it because you have no king, and your counsellors are dead?