⁹ They will come with weeping;^(A)
    they will pray as I bring them back.
I will lead^(B) them beside streams of water^(C)
    on a level^(D) path where they will not stumble,
because I am Israel’s father,^(E)
    and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

¹⁰ “Hear the word of the Lord, you nations;
    proclaim it in distant coastlands:^(F)
‘He who scattered^(G) Israel will gather^(H) them
    and will watch over his flock like a shepherd.’^(I)
11 For the Lord will deliver Jacob
    and redeem^(J) them from the hand of those stronger^(K) than they.