⁷ I will make a new beginning with those people who cannot walk well.
Together with some of those people that I sent far away,
I will make them my own special people.
They will be strong,
and I will rule over them from Mount Zion.
I will be their king from that time and always.
⁸ And as for Jerusalem,
it was a strong, safe place for Zion's people.
It was like a tall building,
from which a man can watch over his sheep.
Then it will again be a place where a king rules with great authority.’
⁹ You people in Jerusalem,
you are crying aloud like people who have no king.
You cry like people who have no wise leader.^[a]
You have bad pains like a woman who is giving birth to a baby.