God will rescue His people from false gods and deceitful leaders and give joy
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📚Ask the LORD✭ for rain at the timeof the latter rain;
so the LORD will make bright clouds,
and give them showers of rain,
and grass in the field
for everyone.
2 📚✭For the idols speak✭ falsehood,
and the diviners✭ see a lie,
and tell false dreams✭;
they comfort in vain.
Therefore the people go
their way like sheep; in trouble,
because there is no shepherd✭.
3 📚“My anger burns against the shepherds,
and I will punish the goats;
for the LORD of hosts✭ will visit
his flock the house of Judah,
and make them like his majestic
horse in battle✭.
4 📚From him✭ will come the cornerstone✭,
from him the nail✭,
from him the battle bow✭,
from him every ruler✭ together.
5 📚And they will be like mighty men,
who trample down their enemies
in the mire of the streets in the battle;
and they will fight, because
the LORD is with them,
and the riders on horses will be
put to shame.
6 📚“And I will strengthen the house
of Judah, and I will save
the house of Joseph✭,
and I will bring them back✭,
for I will have mercy✭ on them,
and they will be as though
I had not rejected them;
for I am the LORD their God,
and will hear them✭.
7 📚And Ephraim’s people✭
will be like mighty men,
and their heart will rejoice✭
as if with wine;
yes, their children will see it,
and be glad.
Their heart will rejoice in the LORD.
8 📚I will whistle for them,
and gather them,
for I have redeemed✭ them.
And they will be as numerous
as they were before.
God will gather His scattered people
9 📚Though I scatter them✭ among
the people,
they will remember me✭ in far countries,
and they will live,
along with their children,
and will return.
10 📚And I will bring them back
from the land of Egypt,
and gather them out of Assyria✭,
and I will bring them into the
land of Gilead and Lebanon,
and enough room will not be
found✭ for them.
11 📚“And he will pass through the sea
of trouble✭,
and will strike the waves of the sea,
and all the depths of the Euphrates
River will dry up✭.
And the pride of Assyria✭ will be
brought down,
and the sceptre of Egypt✭ will depart.
12 📚And I will strengthen them
in the LORD,
and they will walk✭ up and down
in his name”, says the LORD.