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Therefore the LORD ^(F1)(C1)longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He ^(F2)waits on ^(C2)high to have compassion on you. For the LORD is a ^(C3)God of justice; How blessed are all those who ^(F3)(C4)long for Him.

^(F1)For, you people in Zion, ^(C1)inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will ^(C2)weep no longer. He will certainly be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will ^(C3)answer you.

Although the Lord has given you ^(C1)bread of deprivation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher, will no longer ^(C2)hide Himself, but your eyes will see your Teacher.

Your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the ^(C1)way, walk in it," whenever you ^(C2)turn to the right or to the left.

And you will desecrate your carved ^(C1)images plated with silver, and your cast metal ^(C1)images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to ^(F1)them, "^(C2)Be gone!"

Then He will ^(C1)give you rain for your seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be ^(F1)rich and ^(F2)plentiful; on that day ^(C2)your livestock will graze in a wide pasture.

Also the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat ^(F1)seasoned feed, which ^(F2)has been ^(C1)winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

And on every lofty mountain and ^(C1)every high hill there will be ^(F1)streams running with water on the day of the great ^(C2)slaughter, when the towers fall.