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Who has heard anything like this?
    Who has seen anything like these things?
Can a land be born in one day?
    Or can a nation be born in a moment?

Yet when she was in labor, Zion indeed gave birth to her children.

Shall I myself I break open and not deliver?”[a] says Yahweh,
“or I who delivers[b] lock up the womb?” says your God.
10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem
    and shout in exultation with her, all those who love her!
    Rejoice with her in joy, all those who mourn over her,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:9 Literally “cause to bring forth”
  2. Isaiah 66:9 Literally “causes to bring forth”