24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O my people, (A)who dwell in Zion, (B)be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as (C)the Egyptians did.

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22 But you have come to (A)Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, (B)the heavenly Jerusalem, and to (C)innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23 and to (D)the assembly[a] of the firstborn who are (E)enrolled in heaven, and to (F)God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, (G)the mediator of a new covenant, and to (H)the sprinkled blood (I)that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:23 Or church

to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
    (A)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
(B)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
(C)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, (D)that he may be glorified.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:3 Or that he may display his beauty

Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

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13 (A)I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off,
    and my salvation will not delay;
(B)I will put salvation in Zion,
    for Israel my glory.”

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33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or (A)cast up a siege mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 35 (B)For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for (C)the sake of my servant David.”

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22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Say to those who have an anxious heart,
    “Be strong; fear not!
(A)Behold, your God
    will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
    He will come and save you.”

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14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
    trembling has seized the godless:
(A)“Who among us can dwell (B)with the consuming fire?
    Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15 (C)He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
    who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
    who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
    (D)and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
16 he will dwell on the heights;
    his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;
    (E)his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

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19 For a people shall dwell (A)in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.

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(A)Has he struck them (B)as he struck those who struck them?
    Or have they been slain (C)as their slayers were slain?

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29 Rejoice not, (A)O Philistia, all of you,
    that (B)the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
    and its fruit will be a (C)flying fiery serpent.

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Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
    for great (A)in your[a] midst is (B)the Holy One of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!

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(A)For the yoke of his burden,
    (B)and the staff for his shoulder,
    the rod of his oppressor,
    you have broken as (C)on the day of Midian.

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12 “Do not call (A)conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and (B)do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. 13 But the Lord of hosts, (C)him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

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(A)And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called (B)holy, everyone who has (C)been recorded for life in Jerusalem,

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And of Zion it shall be said,
    “This one and that one were born in her”;
    for the Most High himself will (A)establish her.
The Lord records as he (B)registers the peoples,
    “This one was born there.” Selah

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(A)Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
    your right hand, O Lord, (B)shatters the enemy.
In the (C)greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
    you send out your fury; it (D)consumes them like stubble.
At the (E)blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
    the (F)floods stood up in a heap;
    the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
The enemy said, (G)‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
    I (H)will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
    I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
10 You (I)blew with your wind; the (J)sea covered them;
    they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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21 Then Moses (A)stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by (B)a strong east wind all night and (C)made the sea dry land, and the waters were (D)divided. 22 And (E)the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being (F)a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And in the morning watch the Lord in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging[a] their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the (G)Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.”

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, (H)“Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.” 27 (I)So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea (J)returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the Lord (K)threw[b] the Egyptians into the midst of the sea. 28 The (L)waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, (M)not one of them remained. 29 But the (N)people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

30 Thus the Lord (O)saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 (P)Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they (Q)believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 14:25 Or binding (compare Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac); Hebrew removing
  2. Exodus 14:27 Hebrew shook off

The (A)Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them (B)encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

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14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's (A)taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”

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10 (A)Come, (B)let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them (C)to afflict them with heavy (D)burdens. They built for Pharaoh (E)store cities, Pithom and (F)Raamses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel (G)work as slaves 14 and (H)made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

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