(A)Break forth together into singing,
    (B)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for (C)the Lord has comforted his people;
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.

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For the Lord (A)comforts Zion;
    he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like (B)Eden,
    her desert like (C)the garden of the Lord;
(D)joy and gladness will be found in her,
    thanksgiving and the voice of song.

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(A)Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;
    (B)break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

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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.

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(A)They shall build up the ancient ruins;
    they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
    the devastations of many generations.

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12 (A)“For you shall go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
(B)the mountains and the hills before you
    shall break forth into singing,
    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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20 (A)Go out from Babylon, flee from (B)Chaldea,
    declare this (C)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
    say, (D)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”

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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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23 (A)Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it;
    shout, O (B)depths of the earth;
break forth into singing, O mountains,
    O forest, and every tree in it!
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
    (C)and will be glorified[a] in Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:23 Or will display his beauty

The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
    (A)they break forth into singing.

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11 Let (A)the heavens be glad, and let (B)the earth rejoice;
    let (C)the sea roar, and all that fills it;
12     let (D)the field exult, and everything in it!
Then shall all (E)the trees of the forest sing for joy

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27 For it is written,

(A)“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
    break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
    than those of the one who has a husband.”

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10 (A)“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,
    all you who love her;
rejoice with her in joy,
    all you who mourn over her;
11 that you may nurse and be satisfied
    from her consoling breast;
that you may drink deeply with delight
    from her glorious abundance.”[a]

12 For thus says the Lord:
(B)“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
    and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and (C)you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
    and bounced upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts,
    so (D)I will comfort you;
    you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:11 Or breast

18 But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, (A)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
19 (B)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
(C)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.

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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.
(D)“Enlarge the place of your tent,
    and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
do not hold back; lengthen your cords
    and strengthen your stakes.
(E)For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left,
    and your offspring will possess the nations
    and will people the desolate cities.

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13 (A)Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth;
    break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the Lord (B)has comforted his people
    and will have compassion on his afflicted.

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Sing to the Lord a New Song

10 (A)Sing to the Lord a new song,
    his praise from the end of the earth,
(B)you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it,
    (C)the coastlands and their inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice,
    the villages that (D)Kedar inhabits;
let the habitants of (E)Sela sing for joy,
    let them shout from the top of the mountains.

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