Silenced Streets Will Again Hold Joy and Flocks

The city becomes a name of joy among nations, and the silenced streets speak again

It shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD.

Flocks will lie down again under a shepherd's count

In the cities of the mountains, of the vale, of the south, in Benjamin, around Jerusalem, and in Judah, shall flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them. Shepherd-count is ordinary pastoral work returning, not people reduced to livestock.

Joy does not require survivors to stop grieving. Wedding voices and counted sheep are signs that common life is possible, not a demand for cheerfulness or a claim that prosperity proves righteousness.