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Behold, I will bring them back
    from the land of the north,
and I will gather them together
    from the ends of the earth.
Among them will be the blind and the lame,
    expectant mothers and women in labor;
    they will return as a vast throng.
They will return, weeping uncontrollably,
    but I will console them as I lead them back.
I will lead them beside streams of water
    along a level path where they will not stumble.
For I am a father to Israel,
    and Ephraim is my firstborn son.
10 Pay heed, you nations, to the word of the Lord;
    proclaim it even on the distant coastlands and say:
He who scattered Israel will now gather them together
    and watch over his flock like a shepherd.

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