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ISAIAH
49.23
- They shall feed in the ways,
- And in all high hills shall be their pasture;
- 10They shall not hunger nor thirst,
- Neither shall the heat nor sun smite them;
- For He that hath compassion on them will lead them,
- Even by the springs of water will He guide them.
- 11And I will make all My mountains a way,
- And My highways shall be raised on high.
- 12Behold, these shall come from far;
- And, lo, these from the north and from the west,
- And these from the land of Sinim.
- 13Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth,
- And break forth into singing, O mountains;
- For the Lord hath comforted His people,
- And hath compassion upon His afflicted.
- 14But Zion said: 'The Lord hath forsaken me,
- And the Lord hath forgotten me.'
- 15Can a woman forget her sucking child,
- That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
- Yea, these may forget,
- Yet will not I forget thee.
- 16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of My hands;
- Thy walls are continually before Me.
- 17Thy children make haste;
- Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.
- 18Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold:
- All these gather themselves together, and come to thee.
- As I live, saith the Lord,
- Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament,
- And gird thyself with them, like a bride.
- 19For thy waste and thy desolate places
- And thy land that hath been destroyed—
- Surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants,
- And they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
- 20The children of thy bereavement
- Shall yet say in thine ears:
- 'The place is too strait for me;
- Give place to me that I may dwell.'
- 21Then shalt thou say in thy heart:
- 'Who hath begotten me these,
- Seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary,
- An exile, and wandering to and fro?
- And who hath brought up these?
- Behold, I was left alone;
- These, where were they?'
- 22Thus saith the Lord God:
- Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations,
- And set up Mine ensign to the peoples,
- And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom,
- And thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
- 23And kings shall be thy foster-fathers,
- And their queens thy nursing mothers;
- They shall bow down to thee with their face to the earth,
- And lick the dust of thy feet;
- And thou shalt know that I am the Lord,
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