⁷ Return to your rest,^(A) my soul,
    for the Lord has been good^(B) to you.

⁸ For you, Lord, have delivered me^(C) from death,
    my eyes from tears,
    my feet from stumbling,
⁹ that I may walk before the Lord^(D)
    in the land of the living.^(E)

³ A nation from the north^(A) will attack her
    and lay waste her land.
No one will live^(B) in it;
    both people and animals^(C) will flee away.

⁴ “In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together^(A)
    will go in tears^(B) to seek^(C) the Lord their God.