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⁴ God says, “I tell of some who know Me in Egypt^[b] and Babylon;
    behold, My people are in Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia^[c] too:
    ‘This person was born there.’”

⁵ It is said of Zion,
    “This person and that person were born in her.”
    The Most High God has established that city and makes her strong.
⁶ When keeping track of His people, the Eternal surely notices,
    “This one was born in Zion.”

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⁷ Those who sing and those who dance will say together,
    “All my fountains of joy are in You.”

¹⁷ Eternal One: Then you will know that I am the Eternal, your God,
        and I live in Zion, My sacred mountain.
    Jerusalem will be My holy city;
        never again will foreign invaders infiltrate it.

¹⁸ On that great day, the Eternal will provide:
    Sweet wine will drip down from the mountains.
Fresh milk will pour down from the hills.
    Clear water will run through Judah’s ravines.
A fountain will bubble up from the Eternal’s temple
    and water the arid stream bed of Shittim.
¹⁹ Egypt will become a wasteland and Edom a lonely desert,
    because they violently attacked the people of Judah
And murdered the innocent in Israel.
²⁰ But as for Judah, it will always be full of people.

Eternal One: Jerusalem, too, will endure for generations to come.