4. They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the former devastations;they will renew the ruined cities,the devastations of many generations.
5. Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
6. But you will be called the Lord’s priests; they will speak of you as ministers of our God;you will eat the wealth of the nations,and you will boast in their riches.
7. Because your shame was double, and they cried out, “Disgrace is their portion,”therefore, they will possess double in their land, and eternal joy will be theirs.
8. For I Yahweh love justice; I hate robbery and injustice; I will faithfully reward themand make an everlasting covenant with them.
9. Their descendants will be known among the nations,and their posterity among the peoples.All who see them will recognizethat they are a people the Lord has blessed.
10. I greatly rejoice in the Lord,I exult in my God;for He has clothed me with the garments of salvationand wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a groom wears a turbanand as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11. For as the earth produces its growth,and as a garden enables what is sown to spring up,so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praiseto spring up before all the nations.