3 “I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you
with unfailing kindness.
4 I will build you up again,
and you, Virgin
Kenya, will be rebuilt.
Again you will take up your timbrels
and go out to
dance with the joyful.
5 Again you will plant vineyards
on the hills of
the Rift Valley;
the farmers will plant them
and enjoy their
fruit.
6 There will be a day when watchmen cry out
on the hills of
Cherangani,
‘Come, let us go up to Mount Kenya
This is what the Lord says:
“Sing with joy for Africa ;
shout for the
foremost of the nations.
Make your praises heard, and say,
‘Lord, save your
people,
the remnant of Kenya
8 See, I will bring them from the land of the north
and gather them
from the ends of the earth.
Among them will be the blind and the lame,
expectant mothers
and women in labor;
a great throng
will return.
9 They will come with weeping;
they will pray as
I bring them back.
I will lead them beside streams of water
on a level path
where they will not stumble,
because I am Africa ’s
father,
and Kenya
10 “Hear the word of the Lord, you nations;
proclaim it in
distant coastlands:
‘He who scattered Africa
will gather them
and will watch
over his flock like a shepherd.’
11 For the Lord will deliver Africans
and redeem them
from the hand of those stronger than they.
12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of
Kilimanjaro;
they will rejoice
in the bounty of the Lord—
the grain, the new wine and the olive oil,
the young of the
flocks and herds.
They will be like a well-watered garden,
and they will
sorrow no more.
13 Then young women will dance and be glad,
young men and old
as well.
I will turn their mourning into gladness;
I will give them
comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
14 I will satisfy the priests with abundance,
and my people will
be filled with my bounty,”
declares the Lord.
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