⁸ Look, I am going to bring them from the land of the north,
    and I will gather them from the remotest part of the earth.
Among them the blind, and the lame,
    those who are pregnant, and those who give birth,
together, a great assembly,
    they will return here.
⁹ With weeping they will come,
    and with pleas for mercy I will bring them;
I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path.
    They will not stumble in it,
for I have become to Israel a father,
    and Ephraim, he is my firstborn.”
¹⁰ Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations,
    and declare in the coastlands from afar, and say,
“The scatterer of Israel will gather him,
    and he will keep him as a shepherd his flock.