35 They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden;(A) the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.(B)

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The Lord will surely comfort(A) Zion(B)
    and will look with compassion on all her ruins;(C)
he will make her deserts like Eden,(D)
    her wastelands(E) like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness(F) will be found in her,
    thanksgiving(G) and the sound of singing.

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Before them fire(A) devours,
    behind them a flame blazes.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,(B)
    behind them, a desert waste(C)
    nothing escapes them.

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11 Then people will say,
    “Surely the righteous still are rewarded;(A)
    surely there is a God who judges the earth.”(B)

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13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord,(A) when I open your graves and bring you up from them.(B)

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Then this city will bring me renown,(A) joy, praise(B) and honor(C) before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble(D) at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.’

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Our mouths were filled with laughter,(A)
    our tongues with songs of joy.(B)
Then it was said among the nations,
    “The Lord has done great things(C) for them.”

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All people will fear;(A)
    they will proclaim the works of God
    and ponder what he has done.(B)

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10 Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain(A) of the Jordan toward Zoar(B) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,(C) like the land of Egypt.(D) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom(E) and Gomorrah.)(F)

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Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;(A) and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees(B) that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life(C) and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.(D)

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