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Her children will be nursed at her breasts,
carried in her arms, and held on her lap.
I will comfort you there in Jerusalem
as a mother comforts her child.”
When you see these things, your heart
will rejoice.
You will flourish like the grass!
Everyone will see the Lord’s hand of
blessing on his servants—
and his anger against his enemies.
See, the Lord is coming with fire,
and his swift chariots roar like a
whirlwind.
He will bring punishment with the fury
of his anger
and the flaming fire of his hot rebuke.
The Lord will punish the world by fire
and by his sword.
He will judge the earth,
and many will be killed by him.
17 “Those
who ‘consecrate’ and ‘purify’ themselves in a sacred garden with its idol in the
center—feasting on pork and rats and other
detestable meats—will come to a terrible end,”
says the Lord.
18 “I can see what they are doing, and I know
what they are thinking. So I will gather all nations and peoples together, and they will see my
glory. 19 I will perform a sign among them. And
I will send those who survive to be messengers
to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans* and
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Lydians* (who are famous as archers), to Tubal
and Greece,* and to all the lands beyond the sea
that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory.
There they will declare my glory to the nations.
20 They will bring the remnant of your people
back from every nation. They will bring them to
my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to
the Lord. They will ride on horses, in chariots
and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says
the Lord. 21 “And I will appoint some of them
to be my priests and Levites. I, the Lord, have
spoken!
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“As surely as my new heavens and earth
will remain,
so will you always be my people,
with a name that will never disappear,”
says the Lord.
“All humanity will come to worship me
from week to week
and from month to month.
And as they go out, they will see
the dead bodies of those who have
rebelled against me.
For the worms that devour them will
never die,
and the fire that burns them will
never go out.
All who pass by
will view them with utter horror.”
66:19a As in some Greek manuscripts, which read Put
[that is, Libya]; Hebrew reads Pul. 66:19b Hebrew Lud.
66:19c Hebrew Javan.