1  ^aFor the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

  13  Thou shalt arise, and have ^amercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

  17  Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet ^bchoose Jerusalem.