I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners,

我看见他所行的道，也要医治他；又要引导他，使他和那一同伤心的人再得安慰。

我看见他的行为，要医治他，引导他，使他和与他一同哀伤的人都得安慰。

我看见他的行为，要医治他，引导他，使他和与他一同哀伤的人都得安慰。

我看见了他们的所作所为，但我还是要医治他们，引领他们，使他们和那些哀伤的人得安慰，

他的道路，我看见了，我却要医治他，引导他，把安慰赏赐他和他的哀悼者。

我已看见他的道路，但我还是要治愈他、引导他，使他和那些为他悲哀的人重得安慰，

我看見他所行的道，也要醫治他；又要引導他，使他和那一同傷心的人再得安慰。

我看見他的行為，要醫治他，引導他，使他和與他一同哀傷的人都得安慰。

我看見他的行為，要醫治他，引導他，使他和與他一同哀傷的人都得安慰。

我看見了他們的所作所為，但我還是要醫治他們，引領他們，使他們和那些哀傷的人得安慰，

他的道路，我看見了，我卻要醫治他，引導他，把安慰賞賜他和他的哀悼者。

他所行的路我看見了；但我要醫治他，引導他，將安慰賞報他，為哀悼他的人

我已看見他的道路，但我還是要治癒他、引導他，使他和那些為他悲哀的人重得安慰，

彼之行徑、我見之矣、我必醫之、引導之、慰藉之、並慰藉其中之憂人、

我見其所為、我將醫之、導之以行、慰藉其心、以解厥憂。

今我見其道我將醫之、導之以行、加以慰藉、慰藉其憂傷之人、

I have seen what they have done. But I will heal them. I will guide them. I will give those who mourn in Israel the comfort they had before.

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

I have seen what they do, but I will heal them anyway! I will lead them. I will comfort those who mourn,

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

I have seen their behavior, but I will heal them and give them rest, and I will once again console those who mourn.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

“‘ Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.

“ I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon he will send down his roots;his young shoots will grow. His splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.People will dwell again in his shade; they will flourish like the grain, they will blossom like the vine— Israel’s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols? I will answer him and care for him. I am like a flourishing juniper; your fruitfulness comes from me.”

If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.

For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd;‘ he will lead them to springs of living water.’‘ And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:“ I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

“ Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.”“ Yes, we will come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

“ I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:‘ You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the Lord my God.After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the Lord.

You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me, or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your offenses.“ I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.

Anyone who is among the living has hope— even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

“ Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord.“ Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

In that day you will say:“ I will praise you, Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

So he got up and went to his father.“ But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ears have not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are; you were called a rebel from birth.For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to destroy you completely.See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.For my own sake, for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield my glory to another.

“ Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn over her.For you will nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you will drink deeply and delight in her overflowing abundance.”For this is what the Lord says:“ I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy:“ I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.

“ Therefore say to the Israelites,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake, people of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.“‘ For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land.I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you.I will increase the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine.Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.I want you to know that I am not doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign Lord. Be ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, people of Israel!“‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt.The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.They will say,“ This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.”Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate. I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.’“ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,as numerous as the flocks for offerings at Jerusalem during her appointed festivals. So will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you.So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,

The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.