26 (A)who confirms the word of his servant
    and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
    (B)and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
    and I will raise up their ruins’;

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(A)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded (B)my servants the prophets, did they not (C)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, (D)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for (E)our ways and (F)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

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10 (A)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
    and (B)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
    but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

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19 And (A)we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention (B)as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until (C)the day (D)dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. 21 For (E)no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God (F)as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

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(A)I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, (B)and rebuild them as they were (C)at first.

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18 “Thus says the Lord:
Behold, (A)I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob
    and have compassion on his dwellings;
the city shall be rebuilt on (B)its mound,
    and the palace shall stand where it used to be.

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11 (A)“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted,
    behold, (B)I will set your stones in antimony,
    (C)and lay your foundations with sapphires.[a]
12 I will make your pinnacles of agate,[b]
    your gates of carbuncles,[c]
    and all your wall of precious stones.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 54:11 Or lapis lazuli
  2. Isaiah 54:12 Or jasper, or ruby
  3. Isaiah 54:12 Or crystal

Behold, the former things have come to pass,
    (A)and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
    I tell you of them.”

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And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and (A)shame. (B)The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, (C)and its gates are destroyed by fire.”

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70 (A)Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel[a] in their towns.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 2:70 Hebrew all Israel

36 And at the time of (A)the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O Lord, (B)God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that (C)you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that (D)I have done all these things at your word. 37 Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.” 38 (E)Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

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25 For David says concerning him,

(A)“‘I saw the Lord always before me,
    for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;
26 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;
    my flesh also will dwell (B)in hope.
27 For you will not abandon my soul to (C)Hades,
    (D)or let your (E)Holy One (F)see corruption.
28 You have made known to me the paths of life;
    you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

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56 But (A)all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” (B)Then all the disciples left him and fled.

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18 For truly, I say to you, (A)until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

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10 (A)The whole land shall be turned into a plain from (B)Geba to (C)Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But (D)Jerusalem shall remain aloft (E)on its site from (F)the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to (G)the Corner Gate, and from (H)the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for (I)there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.[a] (J)Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

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  1. Zechariah 14:11 The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction

(A)“On that day I will make the clans of Judah (B)like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And (C)they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while (D)Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

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and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, (A)‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited (B)as villages without walls, because of (C)the multitude of people and livestock in it.

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14 (A)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and (B)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
(C)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

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25 (A)Know therefore and understand that (B)from the going out of the word to restore and (C)build Jerusalem to the coming of an (D)anointed one, a (E)prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again[a] with squares and moat, (F)but in a troubled time.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 9:25 Or there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again

17 “Thus says the Lord God: Are you (A)he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

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33 “Thus says the Lord God: On the day that (A)I cleanse you from all your iniquities, (B)I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. 34 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. 35 And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like (C)the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ 36 Then (D)the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord; I have rebuilt the ruined places and (E)replanted that which was desolate. (F)I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.

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10 And (A)I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. (B)The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.

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I said to the king, (A)“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, (B)when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

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And he gave (A)a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’” And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself. The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

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The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

29 (A)At midnight the (B)Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, (C)from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was (D)a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.

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