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The day will come when the children born when you were mourning will say to you, "This place is too cramped for me! Give me room, so I can live!"

Then you will ask yourself, "Who fathered these for me? I've been mourning my children, alone, as an exile, wandering to and fro; so who has raised these? I was left alone, so where have these come from?"

Adonai Elohim has given me the ability to speak as a man well taught, so that I, with my words, know how to sustain the weary. Each morning he awakens my ear to hear like those who are taught.

I will put it in the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, ‘Bend down, so we can trample you,' and you flattened your back on the ground like a street for them to walk on."

So now, what should I do here," asks Adonai , "since my people were carried off for nothing? Their oppressors are howling," says Adonai , "and my name is always being insulted, daily.

Just as many were appalled at him, because he was so disfigured that he didn't even seem human and simply no longer looked like a man,

so now he will startle many nations; because of him, kings will be speechless. For they will see what they had not been told, they will ponder things they had never heard."

"For me this is like Noach's flood. Just as I swore that no flood like Noach's would ever again cover the earth, so now I swear that never again will I be angry with you or rebuke you.

so is my word that goes out from my mouth — it will not return to me unfulfilled; but it will accomplish what I intend, and cause to succeed what I sent it to do."

Though worn out by so much travel, you did not say, ‘All hope is gone'; rather, finding your strength renewed, you did not grow weak.

Of whom have you been so afraid, so fearful that you lied? But me you don't remember, you don't give me a thought! I have held my peace so long that you no longer fear me.

I will expose your [so-called] ‘righteousness'; and what you have done won't help you.

Adonai will always guide you; he will satisfy your needs in the desert, he will renew the strength in your limbs; so that you will be like a watered garden, like a spring whose water never fails.

Rather, it is your own crimes that separate you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he doesn't hear.

"Then a Redeemer will come to Tziyon, to those in Ya‘akov who turn from rebellion." So says Adonai .

Your gates will always be open, they will not be shut by day or by night, so that people can bring you the wealth of nations, with their kings led in procession.

"In the past you were abandoned and hated, so that no one would even pass through you; but now I will make you the pride of the ages, a joy for many generations.

yes, provide for those in Tziyon who mourn, giving them garlands instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, a cloak of praise instead of a heavy spirit, so that they will be called oaks of righteousness planted by Adonai , in which he takes pride.

"For I, Adonai , love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offerings. So I will be faithful to reward them and make an eternal covenant with them."

I am so joyful in Adonai ! My soul rejoices in my God, for he has clothed me in salvation, dressed me with a robe of triumph, like a bridegroom wearing a festive turban, like a bride adorned with her jewels.