¹Woe to the rebellious one and the defiled one, the city that oppresses!

²She did not hear a voice, she did not take discipline; she did not trust in Yahweh, she did not draw near to her God.

³Her officials in her midst are roaring lions; her judges are wolves of the evening, who leave nothing for the morning.

⁴Her prophets are reckless, men of treachery; her priests have profaned holiness, they have done violence to the instruction.

⁵Yahweh is righteous in her midst, he does no injustice; morning by morning he gives his justice to the light, it is not lacking; but the unjust one knows no shame.

⁶I have cut off nations; their corners are desolate; I have laid waste their streets, with no one who passes by; their cities are laid waste, with no man, with no one dwelling.

⁷I said, Surely you will fear me, you will take discipline, and her dwelling place will not be cut off, whatever I appointed against her; but indeed they rose early, they corrupted all their deeds.

⁸Therefore wait for me, the utterance of Yahweh, for the day of my rising as a witness; for my justice is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the burning of my anger; for in the fire of my jealousy, all the land will be consumed.

⁹For then I will turn the peoples to a purified lip, to call, all of them, on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder

¹⁰From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshippers, the daughter of my scattered ones, will bring my grain offering.

¹¹On that day you will not be ashamed of all your deeds, in which you rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst the jubilant ones of your pride, and you will no longer be haughty on my holy mountain.

¹²And I will leave in your midst a humble and poor people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

¹³The remnant of Israel will do no injustice and will speak no lie, and a tongue of deceit will not be found in their mouth; for they will graze and lie down, and no one will terrify them.

¹⁴Give a ringing cry, daughter of Zion; shout, Israel; be glad and exult with all the heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

¹⁵Yahweh has removed your judgments, he has cleared away your enemy; the king of Israel, Yahweh, is in your midst; you will not fear evil again.

¹⁶On that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands drop.

¹⁷Yahweh your God is in your midst, a mighty man who will save; he will exult over you with gladness, he will keep silent in his love, he will rejoice over you with a ringing cry.

¹⁸I have gathered those who grieve, away from the appointed time, away from you; they were a burden upon her, a reproach.

¹⁹Behold, I am about to deal with all those who afflicted you at that time; and I will save the one who limps and gather the one who is banished, and I will make them into praise and a name in all the land of their shame.

²⁰At that time I will bring you in, and at the time I gather you; for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the land, when I restore your captivity before your eyes, Yahweh has said.