35 So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of (A)Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’

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For the Lord will (A)comfort Zion,
He will comfort all her waste places;
He will make her wilderness like Eden,
And her desert (B)like the garden of the Lord;
Joy and gladness will be found in it,
Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

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A fire devours before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like (A)the Garden of Eden before them,
(B)And behind them a desolate wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.

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11 (A)So that men will say,
“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who (B)judges in the earth.”

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13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.

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(A)Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall (B)fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.’

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Then (A)our mouth was filled with laughter,
And our tongue with singing.
Then they said among the [a]nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 126:2 Gentiles

All men shall fear,
And shall (A)declare the work of God;
For they shall wisely consider His doing.

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10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all (A)the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord (B)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) (C)like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward (D)Zoar.

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Life in God’s Garden

The Lord God planted (A)a garden (B)eastward in (C)Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made (D)every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. (E)The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and (F)evil.

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