26 My dear children, you are suffering now in a foreign nation, like sheep that have been dragged off by an enemy.
27 Be brave and cry out to God for help. He has not forgotten you, even though he has done all these things to punish you.
28 Just as you were determined to turn away from God in the past, you should be ten times more determined to obey him now.
29 The same God who punished you with these disasters will save you and give you never-ending happiness.
30 City of Jerusalem, be brave! Your God chose you long ago as his own, and he will soon comfort you.
31 Disaster will come to those nations who mistreated you and celebrated your destruction.
32 The cities that made your children their slaves will one day be miserable, and the city of Babylon, where your people now live, will suffer pain.