Translations
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
He who goes, going and weeping, carrying a precious seed-pouch, he will surely come, coming with a ringing song, carrying his sheaves of grain.
He goes out weeping, carrying precious seed, but he will surely come home with shouts of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.
He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
Footnotes
The infinitive absolute constructions halokh yelekh u-vakhoh ("going, he goes and weeping") and bo yavo berinah ("coming, he comes with ringing song") create an emphatic, rhythmically insistent Hebrew cadence—the verbal doubling underscoring both the certainty of the outcome and the weight of the journey. Meshekh ha-zara ("draw/trail of the seed") is literally the seed-bag being dragged—a visceral, earthy image of heavy-hearted, exhausted labor. F.O.G. preserves the structural mirroring of the infinitive absolutes and the literal seed-bag imagery to honor the Hebrew artistry; F.O.G.M. smooths the cadence for readability and adds "surely" to echo the emphatic force of the doubled verbs.

