6 “I will strengthene Judah

and save the tribes of Joseph.

I will restore them

because I have compassionf on them.g

They will be as though

I had not rejected them,

for I am the Lord their God

and I will answerh them.

7 The Ephraimites will become like warriors,

and their hearts will be glad as with wine.i

Their children will see it and be joyful;

their hearts will rejoicej in the Lord.

8 I will signalk for them

and gather them in.

Surely I will redeem them;

they will be as numerousl as before.

9 Though I scatter them among the peoples,

yet in distant lands they will remember me.m

They and their children will survive,

and they will return.

10 I will bring them back from Egypt

and gather them from Assyria.n

I will bring them to Gileado and Lebanon,

and there will not be roomp enough for them.

11 They will pass through the sea of trouble;

the surging sea will be subdued

and all the depths of the Nile will dry up.q

Assyria’s prider will be brought down

and Egypt’s scepters will pass away.t

12 I will strengthenu them in the Lord

and in his name they will live securely,v”

declares the Lord.