Mercy opens the right way

18Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he rises up to show you mercy; for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him.

19For a people in Zion will dwell in Jerusalem; you will surely weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.

20And the Lord will give you bread of distress and water of oppression, yet your teacher will no longer hide himself, and your eyes will see your teacher.

21And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it,” when you turn to the right and when you turn to the left.

22And you will defile the silver overlay of your carved idols and the gold plating of your cast images. You will scatter them like a menstrual cloth; you will say to them, “Go out!”