²¹ and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing,^(A) rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin.

⁴ This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem,^(A) each of them with cane in hand because of their age. ⁵ The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.^(B)”