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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Sing, O childless woman, you who have never given birth! Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem, you who have never been in labor. For the desolate woman now has more children than the woman who lives with her husband,” says the LORD. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Enlarge your house; build an addition. Spread out your home, and spare no expense! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the ruined cities. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“Fear not; you will no longer live in shame. Don’t be afraid; there is no more disgrace for you. You will no longer remember the shame of your youth and the sorrows of widowhood. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For your Creator will be your husband; the LORD of Heaven’s Armies is his name! He is your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of all the earth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For the LORD has called you back from your grief— as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband,” says your God. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will take you back. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8In a burst of anger I turned my face away for a little while. But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD, your Redeemer. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“Just as I swore in the time of Noah that I would never again let a flood cover the earth, so now I swear that I will never again be angry and punish you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the LORD, who has mercy on you. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“O storm-battered city, troubled and desolate! I will rebuild you with precious jewels and make your foundations from lapis lazuli. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will make your towers of sparkling rubies, your gates of shining gems, and your walls of precious stones. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I will teach all your children, and they will enjoy great peace. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14You will be secure under a government that is just and fair. Your enemies will stay far away. You will live in peace, and terror will not come near. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If any nation comes to fight you, it is not because I sent them. Whoever attacks you will go down in defeat. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“I have created the blacksmith who fans the coals beneath the forge and makes the weapons of destruction. And I have created the armies that destroy. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But in that coming day no weapon turned against you will succeed. You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you. These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the LORD; their vindication will come from me. I, the LORD, have spoken! |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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