_In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear not. O Zion, let not thy hands droop! Jehovah, thy God, in the midst of thee is mighty;[188] He will save, He will rejoice over thee with joy, He will make new[189] His love, He will exult over thee with singing._ _The scattered of thy congregation[190] have I gathered—thine[191] are they, ...[192] reproach upon her. Behold, I am about to do all for thy sake at that time,[193] and I will rescue the lame and the outcast will I bring in,[194] and I will make them for renown and fame whose shame is in the whole earth.[195] In that time I will bring you in,[196] even in the time that I gather you.[197] For I will set you for fame and renown among all the peoples of the earth, when I turn again your captivity before your eyes, saith Jehovah.[198]_ FOOTNOTES: [168] See above, pp. 43-45. [169] Heb. _the city the oppressor_. The two participles in the first clause are not predicates to the noun and adjective of the second (Schwally), but vocatives, though without the article, after הוֹי. [170] LXX. _wolves of Arabia_. [171] The verb left untranslated, גרמו, is quite uncertain in meaning. גרם is a root common to the Semitic languages and seems to mean originally _to cut off_, while the noun גרם is _a bone_. In Num. xxiv. 8 the Piel of the verb used with another word for bone means _to gnaw_, _munch_. (The only other passage where it is used, Ezek. xxiii. 34, is corrupt.) So some take it here: _they do not gnaw bones till morning_, _i.e._ devour all at once; but this is awkward, and Schwally (198) has proposed to omit the negative, _they do gnaw bones till morning_, yet in that case surely the impf. and not the perf. tense would have been used. The LXX. render _they do not leave over_, and it has been attempted, though inconclusively, to derive this meaning from that of _cutting off_, i.e. _laying aside_ (the Arabic Form II. means, however, _to leave behind_). Another line of meaning perhaps promises more. In Aram. the verb means _to be the cause of anything, to bring about_, and perhaps contains the idea of _deciding_ (Levy _sub voce_ compares κρίνω, _cerno_); in Arab. it means, among other things, _to commit a crime, be guilty_, but in mod. Arabic _to fine_. Now it is to be noticed that here the expression is used of _judges_, and it may be there is an intentional play upon the double possibility of meaning in the root. [172] Ezek. xxii. 26: _Her priests have done violence to My Law and have profaned My holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and profane, between the clean and the unclean._ Cf. Jer. ii. 8. [173] Schwally by altering the accents: _morning by morning He giveth forth His judgment: no day does He fail_. [174] On this ver. 6 see above, p. 44. It is doubtful. [175] Or _discipline_. [176] Wellhausen: _that which I have commanded her_. Cf. Job xxxvi. 23; 2 Chron. xxxvi. 23; Ezra i. 2. [177] So LXX., reading מֵעֵינֶיהָ for the Heb. מְעוֹנָהּ, _her dwelling_.