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2Has not my hand made all these things,
and so they came into being?”
declares the LORD.
“This is the one I esteem:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit,
and trembles at my word.

5Hear the word of the LORD,
you who tremble at his word:
“Your brothers who hate you,
and exclude you because of my name, have said,
‘Let the LORD be glorified,
that we may see your joy!’
Yet they will be put to shame.

6Hear that uproar from the city,
hear that noise from the temple!
It is the sound of the LORD
repaying his enemies all they deserve.

7“Before she goes into labor,
she gives birth;
before the pains come upon her,
she delivers a son.

8Who has ever heard of such a thing?
Who has ever seen such things?
Can a country be born in a day
or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor
than she gives birth to her children.

9Do I bring to the moment of birth
and not give delivery?” says the LORD.
“Do I close up the womb
when I bring to delivery?” says your God.

10“Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice greatly with her,
all you who mourn over her.

11For you will nurse and be satisfied
at her comforting breasts;
you will drink deeply
and delight in her overflowing abundance.”

12For this is what the LORD says:
“I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried on her arm
and dandled on her knees.

13As a mother comforts her child,
so will I comfort you;
and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

14When you see this, your heart will rejoice
and you will flourish like grass;
the hand of the LORD will be made known to his servants,
but his fury will be shown to his foes.

15See, the LORD is coming with fire,
and his chariots are like a whirlwind;
he will bring down his anger with fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.

16For with fire and with his sword
the LORD will execute judgment upon all men,
and many will be those slain by the LORD.

17“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the midst ofOr gardens behind one of your temples, and those who eat the flesh of pigs and rats and other abominable things—they will meet their end together,” declares the LORD.

18“And I, because of their actions and their imaginations, am about to comeThe meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain. and gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see my glory.

19“I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations—to Tarshish, to the LibyansSome Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.20And they will bring all your brothers, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the LORD. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the LORD in ceremonially clean vessels.21And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,” says the LORD.

22“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the LORD, “so will your name and descendants endure.23From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the LORD.24“And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”