Everlasting Love Gathers the Northern Remnant

Everlasting love gathers the remnant of Israel, including the travelers who cannot hurry

At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest. I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Again I will build thee, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with tabrets and go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria. Watchmen on Ephraim cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion. The north is not erased. Samaria is replanted.

A great company returns, with the blind, lame, and laboring women in the midst

Sing with gladness for Jacob, shout among the chief of the nations: the LORD hath saved thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. Weeping belongs in the return. Lament is not spiritual failure. Gathering must not erase danger, disability access, or the rights of others affected by later migrations.