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They shall ask the way to Zion and start back home again. “Come,” they will say, “let us be united to the Lord with an eternal pledge that will never be broken again.”

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds led them astray and then turned them loose in the mountains. They lost their way and didn’t remember how to get back to the fold. All who found them devoured them and said, “We are permitted to attack them freely, for they have sinned against the Lord, the God of justice, the hope of their fathers.”

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They will ask the way(A) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come(B) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant(C)
    that will not be forgotten.

“My people have been lost sheep;(D)
    their shepherds(E) have led them astray(F)
    and caused them to roam on the mountains.
They wandered over mountain and hill(G)
    and forgot their own resting place.(H)
Whoever found them devoured(I) them;
    their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty,(J)
for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture,
    the Lord, the hope(K) of their ancestors.’

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