I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.

And many nations shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will tell us His way, and we will walk in it; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

let the ungodly leave his ways, and the transgressor his counsels; and let him return to the Lord, and he shall find mercy; for He shall abundantly pardon your sins.

Turn, you children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises. Behold, we will be Your servants; for You are the Lord our God.

In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.

NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

Let us lift up our hearts with our hand to the lofty One in heaven.

Be gathered and closely joined together, O unchastened nation;

Therefore I [will be] as consternation to Ephraim, and as a goad to the house of Judah.

For I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Judah. And I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

And I will be to them as a panther, and as a leopard.

O Israel, who will aid [you] in your destruction?

Behold I, even I, am [He], and there is no God beside Me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will smite, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of My hands.

The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave, and brings up.

for He causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: He smites, and His hands heal.

And He will give quiet, and who will condemn? And He will hide His face, and who shall see Him? Whether it be done against a nation, or against a man, also:

O Lord, in Your good pleasure You added strength to my beauty; but You turned away Your face, and I was troubled.

And you shall pollute the plated idols, and you shall grind to powder the gilt ones, and shall scatter them as the water of a removed [woman], and you shall thrust them forth as dung.

Thus says the Lord: I have brought on [you] destruction. Your stroke is painful.

to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I struck down in My anger and My wrath, and turned away My face from them, for all their wickedness.

CHAPH. For He that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of His mercy.

He has not answered in anger from His heart, though He has brought low the children of a man.