CHAPTER 10

                 ¹Ask of the LORD rain

                     in the season of the latter rains.

                 The LORD makes lightning

                     and drenching rain.

                 He gives to every man

                     the grass of the field.

                 ²For the household gods spoke deceit,

                     and the sorcerers envisioned lies,

                 and vain dreams do they speak,

                     with mere breath they console.

                 Therefore they have strayed like sheep,

                     wandered, for there is no shepherd.

                 ³Against the shepherds I am incensed

                     and with the he-goats I will make a reckoning.

                 For the LORD of Armies has singled out His flock,

                     the house of Judah,

                         and made them like a stallion, His glory in battle.

                 ⁴From them the cornerstone and from them the tent peg,

                     from them the bow of battle,

                         from them all commanders together.

                 ⁵And they shall be as warriors

                     trampling the mud of the streets in battle,

                 and they shall battle, for the LORD is with them,

                     and they shall put the horsemen to shame.

                 ⁶And I will make the house of Judah mighty,

                     and the house of Joseph I will make victorious.

                 And I will restore them, for I have mercy upon them,

                     and they shall be as though I never forsook them,

                         for I am the LORD their God and will answer them.

                 ⁷And Ephraim shall be like a warrior,

                     and their heart shall rejoice as from wine,

                 and their children shall see and rejoice,

                     their heart shall exult in the LORD.

                 ⁸I will whistle to them and gather them,

                     for I will ransom them, and they shall increase as before.

                 ⁹And I will sow them among the peoples, in far places they shall recall Me,

                     and they shall thrive with their children and return.

                 ¹⁰And I will bring them back from the land of Egypt

                     and from Assyria I will gather them.

                 And to the land of Gilead and Lebanon I will bring them,

                     and still it shall not suffice for them.

                 ¹¹And he shall pass through the sea against the foe

                     and strike waves in the sea,

                 and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up,

                     and the pride of Assyria be brought down,

                         and the scepter of Egypt shall vanish.

                 ¹²And I will make them mighty in the LORD,

                     and in His name they shall go about

                         —said the LORD.