Add parallel Print Page Options

18 Then Yahweh was jealous for his land,
    And had pity on his people.
19 Yahweh answered his people,
    “Behold,[a] I will send you grain, new wine, and oil,
    and you will be satisfied with them;
    and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
20 But I will remove the northern army far away from you,
    and will drive it into a barren and desolate land,
    its front into the eastern sea,
    and its back into the western sea;
    and its stench will come up,
    and its bad smell will rise.”
Surely he has done great things.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2:19 “Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.