^13 (A)Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
    and the young men and the old shall be merry.
^(B)I will turn their mourning into joy;
    I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

³ to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
    ^(A)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
^(B)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
^(C)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, ^(D)that he may be glorified.^[a]

^11 (A)And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
    and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
    they shall obtain gladness and joy,
    and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

^4 (A)Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
    O virgin Israel!
^(B)Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
    and shall go forth in ^(C)the dance of the merrymakers.

¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, ^(A)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
^19 (B)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(C)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.

³ For the Lord ^(A)comforts Zion;
    he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like ^(B)Eden,
    her desert like ^(C)the garden of the Lord;
^(D)joy and gladness will be found in her,
    thanksgiving and the voice of song.

^10 (A)And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
    and come to Zion with singing;
^(B)everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
    they shall obtain gladness and joy,
    and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.