Isaiah 30:18-26

New International Version

¹⁹ People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more.^(E) How gracious he will be when you cry for help!^(F) As soon as he hears, he will answer^(G) you. ²⁰ Although the Lord gives you the bread^(H) of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers^(I) will be hidden^(J) no more; with your own eyes you will see them. ²¹ Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice^(K) behind you, saying, “This is the way;^(L) walk in it.” ²² Then you will desecrate your idols^(M) overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold;^(N) you will throw them away like a menstrual^(O) cloth and say to them, “Away with you!^(P)”

²³ He will also send you rain^(Q) for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich^(R) and plentiful.^(S) In that day^(T) your cattle will graze in broad meadows.^{(U) 24} The oxen^(V) and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder^(W) and mash, spread out with fork^(X) and shovel. ²⁵ In the day of great slaughter,^(Y) when the towers^(Z) fall, streams of water will flow^(AA) on every high mountain and every lofty hill. ²⁶ The moon will shine like the sun,^(AB) 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^(AC) the wounds he inflicted.