Opening the chapter…
When God brought us Israeli people back to Jerusalem (OR, enabled us Israelis to prosper again), it was wonderful; it seemed as though [SIM] we were dreaming.
We were extremely happy, and we [SYN] continued shouting joyfully. Then the other people-groups said about us, “God has done great things for them!”
And we say, “Yes, God truly has done great things for us, and we are very happy.”
God, when it rains, water flows in the streams again after they were dry [SIM]. Similarly, enable our nation to become great again like it was before.
We cried when we planted seeds because it was hard work preparing the soil that had not been plowed for many years; now we want to shout joyfully because we are gathering a big harvest.
Those who cried as they carried the bags of seeds to the fields will shout joyfully when they bring the crops to their houses at harvest time.
Source
Translation for Translators. Copyright © 2008-2017 Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (eng-t4t). Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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