12 For this is what the Lord says:Your injury is incurable;your wound most severe.
13 No one takes up the case for your sores. There is no healing for you.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer look for you,for I have struck you as an enemy would,with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your enormous guiltand your innumerable sins.
15 Why do you cry out about your injury?Your pain has no cure!I have done these things to youbecause of your enormous guiltand your innumerable sins.
16 Nevertheless, all who devoured you will be devoured, and all your adversaries — all of them —will go off into exile.Those who plunder you will be plundered,and all who raid you will be raided.
17 But I will bring you health and will heal you of your wounds —this is the Lord’s declaration —for they call you Outcast,Zion whom no one cares about.
18 This is what the Lord says:I will certainly restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and show compassion on his dwellings.Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;every citadel will stand on its proper site.