¹⁸ I will make rivers flow^(A) on barren heights,
    and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert^(B) into pools of water,^(C)
    and the parched ground into springs.^(D)
19 I will put in the desert^(E)
    the cedar and the acacia,^(F) the myrtle and the olive.
I will set junipers^(G) in the wasteland,
    the fir and the cypress^(H) together,^(I)
20 so that people may see and know,^(J)
    may consider and understand,^(K)
that the hand^(L) of the Lord has done this,
    that the Holy One^(M) of Israel has created^(N) it.

“I am sending you grain, new wine^(C) and olive oil,^(D)
    enough to satisfy you fully;^(E)
never again will I make you
    an object of scorn^(F) to the nations.

²⁰ “I will drive the northern horde^(G) far from you,
    pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
    and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench^(H) will go up;
    its smell will rise.”

Surely he has done great things!
²¹     Do not be afraid,^(I) land of Judah;
    be glad and rejoice.^(J)
Surely the Lord has done great things!^(K)
22     Do not be afraid, you wild animals,
    for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green.^(L)
The trees are bearing their fruit;
    the fig tree^(M) and the vine^(N) yield their riches.^(O)
23 Be glad, people of Zion,
    rejoice^(P) in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
    because he is faithful.^(Q)
He sends you abundant showers,^(R)
    both autumn^(S) and spring rains,^(T) as before.
²⁴ The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
    the vats will overflow^(U) with new wine^(V) and oil.

²⁵ “I will repay you for the years the locusts^(W) have eaten^(X)—
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm^[b]—
my great army^(Y) that I sent among you.
²⁶ You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,^(Z)
    and you will praise^(AA) the name of the Lord your God,
    who has worked wonders^(AB) for you;
never again will my people be shamed.^(AC)
27 Then you will know^(AD) that I am in Israel,
    that I am the Lord^(AE) your God,
    and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.^(AF)

“when the reaper^(B) will be overtaken by the plowman^(C)
    and the planter by the one treading^(D) grapes.
New wine^(E) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,^(F)
14     and I will bring^(G) my people Israel back from exile.^[a](H)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities^(I) and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards^(J) and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.^(K)
15 I will plant^(L) Israel in their own land,^(M)
    never again to be uprooted^(N)
    from the land I have given them,”^(O)

says the Lord your God.^(P)