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Because I love Zion, I will not keep still. Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem, I cannot remain silent. I will not stop praying for her until her righteousness shines like the dawn, and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.

The Lord will hold you in his hand for all to see— a splendid crown in the hand of God.

Never again will you be called "The Forsaken City" or "The Desolate Land." Your new name will be "The City of God's Delight" and "The Bride of God," for the Lord delights in you and will claim you as his bride.

Go out through the gates! Prepare the highway for my people to return! Smooth out the road; pull out the boulders; raise a flag for all the nations to see.

For the time has come for me to avenge my people, to ransom them from their oppressors.

I will tell of the Lord 's unfailing love. I will praise the Lord for all he has done. I will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel, which he has granted according to his mercy and love.

Lord , why have you allowed us to turn from your path? Why have you given us stubborn hearts so we no longer fear you? Return and help us, for we are your servants, the tribes that are your special possession.

As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame!

For since the world began, no ear has heard and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him!

You welcome those who gladly do good, who follow godly ways. But you have been very angry with us, for we are not godly. We are constant sinners; how can people like us be saved?

Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.

The Lord says, "I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help. I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am!' to a nation that did not call on my name.

both for their own sins and for those of their ancestors," says the Lord . "For they also burned incense on the mountains and insulted me on the hills. I will pay them back in full!

"But I will not destroy them all," says the Lord . "For just as good grapes are found among a cluster of bad ones (and someone will say, ‘Don't throw them all away— some of those grapes are good!'), so I will not destroy all Israel. For I still have true servants there.

The plain of Sharon will again be filled with flocks for my people who have searched for me, and the valley of Achor will be a place to pasture herds.

now I will ‘destine' you for the sword. All of you will bow down before the executioner. For when I called, you did not answer. When I spoke, you did not listen. You deliberately sinned—before my very eyes— and chose to do what you know I despise."

My servants will sing for joy, but you will cry in sorrow and despair.

Your name will be a curse word among my people, for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you and will call his true servants by another name.

All who invoke a blessing or take an oath will do so by the God of truth. For I will put aside my anger and forget the evil of earlier days.

Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses and confiscate their vineyards. For my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will have time to enjoy their hard-won gains.