"Because of the violence done to the oppressed, because of the painful cries of the needy, I will spring into action," says the Lord. "I will provide the safety they so desperately desire."

Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.

Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well, sing to it!

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.

Even though he flourishes like a reed plant, a scorching east wind will come, a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert. As a result, his spring will dry up; his well will become dry. That wind will spoil all his delightful foods in the containers in his storehouse.