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Rh :They shall feed in the ways,
 * And in all high hills shall be their pasture;
 * They shall not hunger nor thirst,
 * Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them;
 * For He that hath compassion on them will lead them,
 * Even by the springs of water will He guide them.
 * And I will make all My mountains a way,
 * And My highways shall be raised on high.
 * Behold, these shall come from far;
 * And, lo, these from the north and from the west,
 * And these from the land of Sinim.


 * Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth,
 * And break forth into singing, O mountains;
 * For the hath comforted His people,
 * And hath compassion upon His afflicted.


 * But Zion said: 'The hath forsaken me,
 * And the Lord hath forgotten me.'
 * Can a woman forget her sucking child,
 * That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
 * Yea, these may forget,
 * Yet will not I forget thee.
 * Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands;
 * Thy walls are continually before Me.
 * Thy children make haste;
 * Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
 * Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold:
 * All these gather themselves together, and come to thee.
 * As I live, saith the ,
 * Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament,
 * And gird thyself with them, like a bride.
 * For thy waste and thy desolate places
 * And thy land that hath been destroyed—
 * Surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants,
 * And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
 * The children of thy bereavement
 * Shall yet say in thine ears:
 * 'The place is too strait for me;
 * Give place to me that I may dwell.'
 * Then shalt thou say in thy heart:
 * 'Who hath begotten me these,
 * Seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary,
 * An exile, and wandering to and fro?
 * And who hath brought up these?
 * Behold, I was left alone;
 * These, where were they?'


 * Thus saith the Lord :
 * Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations,
 * And set up Mine ensign to the peoples,
 * And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom,
 * And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
 * And kings shall be thy foster-fathers,
 * And their queens thy nursing mothers;
 * They shall bow down to thee with their face to the earth,
 * And lick the dust of thy feet;
 * And thou shalt know that I am the ,