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Who cast you out for My name’s sake, The LORD will judge all flesh;
said, And the slain of the LORD shall be many.
‘Let the LORD be glorified, 17
That we may see your joy.’ “Those who sanctify themselves and
But they shall be ashamed.” purify themselves,
To go to the gardens
6 The sound of noise from the city! After an idol in the midst,
A voice from the temple! Eating swine’s flesh and the
The voice of the LORD, abomination and the mouse,
Who fully repays His enemies! Shall be consumed together,” says the
7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth; LORD.
Before her pain came, 18 “For I know their works and their thoughts.
She delivered a male child. It shall be that I will gather all nations and
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Who has heard such a thing? tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.
Who has seen such things? 19 I will set a sign among them; and those among
Shall the earth be made to give birth in them who escape I will send to the nations: to
one day? Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow,
Or shall a nation be born at once? and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off
For as soon as Zion was in labor, who have not heard My fame nor seen My
She gave birth to her children.
Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not 20
9 glory. And they shall declare My glory among
cause delivery?” says the LORD. the Gentiles. Then they shall bring all your
“Shall I who cause delivery shut up the brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all
womb?” says your God. nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters,
“Rejoice with Jerusalem,
10 on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain
And be glad with her, all you who love Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “as the children of Is-
her; rael bring an offering in a clean vessel into the
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Rejoice for joy with her, all you who house of the LORD. And I will also take some of
mourn for her; them for priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
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That you may feed and be satisfied 22 “For as the new heavens and the new
With the consolation of her bosom, earth
That you may drink deeply and be Which I will make shall remain before
delighted Me,” says the LORD,
With the abundance of her glory.”
“So shall your descendants and your
12 For thus says the LORD: name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like That from one New Moon to another,
a river, And from one Sabbath to another,
And the glory of the Gentiles like a All flesh shall come to worship before
flowing stream. Me,” says the LORD.
Then you shall feed;
On her sides shall you be carried, 24 “And they shall go forth and look
And be dandled on her knees. Upon the corpses of the men
As one whom his mother comforts,
13 Who have transgressed against Me.
So I will comfort you; For their worm does not die,
And you shall be comforted in And their fire is not quenched.
Jerusalem.” They shall be an abhorrence to all
flesh.”
When you see this, your heart shall
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rejoice, Psalm 116:1–4
And your bones shall flourish like grass; love the LORD, because He has heard
The hand of the LORD shall be known I My voice and my supplications.
to His servants, 2
And His indignation to His enemies. Because He has inclined His ear to me,
15 For behold, the LORD will come with fire Therefore I will call upon Him as long
as I live.
And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury, 3 The pains of death surrounded me,
And His rebuke with flames of fire. And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me;
For by fire and by His sword I found trouble and sorrow.
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