 1 The Lord said, Heaven is my throne and earth my footstool. Where then is the house that you build for me? Where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those my hand has made and all those exist, says the Lord. But to this one I will look. To the afflicted and contrite spirit and the one who trembles at my Word. 3 One who kills an ox is is as if he killed a man. One who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck. One who offers an offering is as if he offered swine's blood. One who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in their abominations. 4 I will also choose the things that delude them. I will bring fears on them because I called and no one answered. When I spoke, they did not hear. But they did evil before my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight. 5 Hear the Word of the Lord, you who tremble at His Word. Your brothers who hated you and cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified. But He will appear to your joy, and they will be ashamed. 6 A sound of noise from the city, a sound from the temple, a sound of the Lord repaying His enemies. 7 Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a man child. 8 Who has heard a thing like this? Who has seen things like these? Will the earth be brought forth in one day? Or will a nation be born at once? For Zion travailed and also brought forth her children. 9 Will I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth, says the Lord? Surely I will cause birth and restrain, says your God. 10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all who mourn for her; 11 that you may suck and be satisfied with her comforting breasts. That you may milk out and be delighted with the fullness of her glory. 12 For thus says the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river and the glory of the nations like a flowing stream. Then you will be nursed+. You will be carried on her side and be comforted+ on her knees. 13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. And you will be comforted in Jerusalem. 14 You will see, and your heart will rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the grass. And the hand of the Lord will be known toward His servants, and His fury toward His enemies. 15 For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with His chariots like a tempest, to refresh His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For by fire and by His sword the Lord will execute judgment with all flesh. And the slain of the Lord will be many. 17 Those who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves to go into the gardens, behind one tree in the middle, eating swine's flesh, and the hateful thing, and the mouse, will be cut off together, says the Lord. 18 For I know their works and their thoughts. It comes to gather all nations and tongues. They will come and see my glory. 19 I will set a sign among them and send those who escape from them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud. Drawers of the bow to Tubal and Javan and to far away coasts that have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory. They will declare my glory among the nations. 20 They will bring all your brothers for an offering to the Lord out of all nations on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord. Like the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, says the Lord. 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make stand before me, says the Lord, so will your descendants and your name stand. 23 From one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me, says the Lord. 24 They will go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have sinned against me. For their worm will not die nor will their fire be put out. They will be an object of disgust to all flesh.
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