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

10 (A)Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for (B)behold, I come (C)and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord. 11 (D)And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people. (E)And I will dwell in your midst, and (F)you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

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And I will be to her (A)a wall of fire all around, declares the Lord, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”

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Israel's Joy and Restoration

14 (A)Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion;
    shout, O Israel!
Rejoice and exult with all your heart,
    O daughter of Jerusalem!
15 The Lord has taken away the judgments against you;
    he has cleared away your enemies.
(B)The King of Israel, (C)the Lord, is in your midst;
    you shall never again fear evil.
16 (D)On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Fear not, O Zion;
    (E)let not your hands grow weak.
17 (F)The Lord your God is in your midst,
    (G)a mighty one who will save;
(H)he will rejoice over you with gladness;
    he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.

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14 Fear not, you (A)worm Jacob,
    you men of Israel!
I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord;
    your (B)Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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11 Sing praises to the Lord, who (A)sits enthroned in Zion!
    Tell among the peoples his (B)deeds!

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37 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—(A)the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice (B)for all the mighty works that they had seen, 38 saying, (C)“Blessed is (D)the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and (E)glory in the highest!” 39 (F)And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, (G)the very stones would cry out.”

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35 The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And (A)the name of the city from that time on shall be, (B)The Lord Is There.”

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The Eternal Covenant of Peace

54 (A)“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;
    break forth into singing and cry aloud,
    you who have not been in labor!
For the children of (B)the desolate one (C)will be more
    than the children of her who is married,” says the Lord.

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16 (A)you shall winnow them, and (B)the wind shall carry them away,
    and the tempest shall scatter them.
(C)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
    in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

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Thus says the Lord: (A)I have returned to Zion and (B)will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, (C)and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, (D)and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts: (E)Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. Thus says the Lord of hosts: (F)If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, (G)should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the Lord of hosts? Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, (H)I will save my people (I)from the east country and from the west country, and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. (J)And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, (K)in faithfulness and in righteousness.”

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Woe to (A)you inhabitants of the seacoast,
    you nation of (B)the Cherethites!
(C)The word of the Lord is against you,
    (D)O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
    and I will destroy you (E)until no inhabitant is left.

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and he said to me, (A)“Son of man, this is (B)the place of my throne and (C)the place of the soles of my feet, (D)where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more (E)defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies[a] of their kings at their high places,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 43:7 Or the monuments; also verse 9
  2. Ezekiel 43:7 Or at their deaths

(A)How beautiful upon the mountains
    are the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace, (B)who brings good news of happiness,
    who publishes salvation,
    who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
The voice of (C)your watchmen—they lift up their voice;
    together they sing for joy;
(D)for eye to eye they see
    the return of the Lord to Zion.
(E)Break forth together into singing,
    (F)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for (G)the Lord has comforted his people;
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 (H)The Lord has bared his holy arm
    before the eyes of all the nations,
(I)and all the ends of the earth shall see
    the salvation of our God.

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26 (A)I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
    and they shall be drunk (B)with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
    that (C)I am the Lord your Savior,
    and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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The Greatness of God

Go on up to a high mountain,
    O Zion, (A)herald of good news;[a]
lift up your voice with strength,
    O Jerusalem, herald of good news;[b]
    lift it up, fear not;
say to the cities of Judah,
    “Behold your God!”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:9 Or O herald of good news to Zion
  2. Isaiah 40:9 Or O herald of good news to Jerusalem

24 And no inhabitant will say, (A)“I am sick”;
    (B)the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

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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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23 (A)Then the moon will be confounded
    and the sun ashamed,
for (B)the Lord of hosts reigns
    on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and his glory will be before his elders.

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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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18 (A)Behold, I and (B)the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

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14 “This is my (A)resting place forever;
    here I will (B)dwell, for I have desired it.

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18 For our (A)shield belongs to the Lord,
    our king to (B)the Holy One of Israel.

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22 I will also praise you with (A)the harp
    for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
    O (B)Holy One of Israel.

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16 Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain,
    at the mount that God (A)desired for his abode,
    yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?

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