12. Though you search for your enemies,you will not find them.Those who wage war against youwill be as nothing at all.
13. For I am the Lord your Godwho takes hold of your right handand says to you, Do not fear;I will help you.
14. Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob,little Israel, do not fear,for I myself will help you,’ declares the Lord,your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15. ‘See, I will make you into a threshing-sledge,new and sharp, with many teeth.You will thresh the mountains and crush them,and reduce the hills to chaff.
16. You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up,and a gale will blow them away.But you will rejoice in the Lordand glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17. ‘The poor and needy search for water,but there is none;their tongues are parched with thirst.But I the Lord will answer them;I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18. I will make rivers flow on barren heights,and springs within the valleys.I will turn the desert into pools of water,and the parched ground into springs.
19. I will put in the desertthe cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.I will set junipers in the wasteland,the fir and the cypress together,