and spoke to him, saying, Run and speak to that young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be fully inhabited by reason of the abundance of men and cattle in the midst of her.

Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine on the sides of your house; your children as young olive-plants round about your table.

Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that fears the Lord.

whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the likeness of a temple.

Their oxen are fat: there is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, nor cry in their folds.

And there shall go forth from them singers, [even] the sound of men making merry, and I will multiply them, and they shall by no means be diminished.

And their sons shall go in as before, and their testimonies shall be established before Me, and I will visit those that afflict them.

Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and the seed of beast.

the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty; for the Lord is good; for His mercy [endures] forever. And they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord, for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.

KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord, lift up your hands to Him for the life of your infants, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

But to what shall I compare this generation? It is similar to children who sit in the marketplaces and call to their playmates,

and say, 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; We mourned to you, and you did not lament.'