A Calf’s Cry

¹⁹ People in Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. God will certainly be merciful to you. Hearing the sound of your outcry, God will answer you. ²⁰ Though the Lord gives you the bread of distress and the water of oppression, your teacher will no longer hide, but you will see your teacher. ²¹ If you stray to the right or the left, you will hear a word that comes from behind you: “This is the way; walk in it.” ²² You will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-covered priestly vest, and you will scatter them like menstrual rags. “Get out,” you will say to them.