14 In righteousness you shall be established;
    you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
    and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

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25 (A)Do not be afraid of sudden terror
    or of (B)the ruin[a] of the wicked, when it comes,
26 for the Lord will be your confidence
    and will (C)keep your foot from being caught.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:25 Hebrew storm

10 (A)“Then fear not, (B)O Jacob my servant, declares the Lord,
    nor be dismayed, O Israel;
for behold, (C)I will save you from far away,
    (D)and your offspring from the land of their captivity.
(E)Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease,
    and none shall make him afraid.

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Then (A)I will encamp at my house as a guard,
    (B)so that none shall march to and fro;
(C)no oppressor shall again march over them,
    (D)for now I see with my own eyes.

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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.

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

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27 (A)And I will put my Spirit within you, (B)and cause you to walk in my statutes and (C)be careful to obey my rules.[a] 28 (D)You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and (E)you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 36:27 Or my just decrees

(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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10 (A)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my soul shall exult in my God,
(B)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself (C)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
    (D)and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
    and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,
so the Lord God will cause (E)righteousness and praise
    to sprout up before all the nations.

Zion's Coming Salvation

62 (F)For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
    and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
(G)until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
    and her salvation as a burning torch.

13 But according to his promise we are waiting for (A)new heavens and a new earth (B)in which righteousness dwells.

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13     (A)those who are left in Israel;
they (B)shall do no injustice
    and speak no lies,
(C)nor shall there be found in their mouth
    a deceitful tongue.
(D)For they shall graze and lie down,
    and none shall make them afraid.”

Israel's Joy and Restoration

14 (E)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.
(F)The King of Israel, (G)the Lord, is in your midst;
    you shall never again fear evil.
16 (H)On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Fear not, O Zion;
    (I)let not your hands grow weak.

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26 And I will restore your judges (A)as at the first,
    and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward (B)you shall be called the city of righteousness,
    the faithful city.”

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He shall judge between many peoples,
    and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away;
and they shall (A)beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore;
(B)but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree,
    (C)and no one shall make them afraid,
    (D)for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

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21 (A)Your people shall all be righteous;
    (B)they shall possess the land forever,
(C)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
    that I might be glorified.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 60:21 Or that I might display my beauty

24 (A)“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
    are righteousness and (B)strength;
to him shall come and be ashamed
    (C)all who were incensed against him.

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He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
(A)and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
(B)nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore.

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The Glorious Future of Judah

17 (A)“So you shall know that I am the Lord your God,
    (B)who dwells in Zion, (C)my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
    and (D)strangers shall never again pass through it.

18 “And in that day
(E)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and the hills shall flow with milk,
and (F)all the streambeds of Judah
    shall flow with water;
(G)and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord
    and water the Valley of (H)Shittim.

19 (I)“Egypt shall become a desolation
    and (J)Edom a desolate wilderness,
(K)for the violence done to the people of Judah,
    because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 (L)But Judah shall be inhabited forever,
    and Jerusalem to all generations.
21 (M)I will avenge their blood,
    blood I have not avenged,[a]
    (N)for the Lord dwells in Zion.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:21 Or I will acquit their bloodguilt that I have not acquitted

23 (A)They shall not (B)defile themselves anymore (C)with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But (D)I will save them from all the backslidings[a] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and (E)they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

24 “My servant (F)David (G)shall be king over them, and they shall all have (H)one shepherd. (I)They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 (J)They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there (K)forever, and David my servant shall be their prince (L)forever. 26 (M)I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be (N)an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land[b] and (O)multiply them, and will (P)set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 37:23 Many Hebrew manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts dwellings
  2. Ezekiel 37:26 Hebrew lacks in their land

23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, (A)when I restore their fortunes:

(B)“‘The Lord bless you, (C)O habitation of righteousness,
    (D)O holy hill!’

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(A)Then I will gather the remnant of my flock (B)out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, (C)and they shall be fruitful and multiply. (D)I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the Lord.

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The Lord's Coming Salvation

52 (A)Awake, awake,
    put on your strength, O Zion;
(B)put on your beautiful garments,
    O Jerusalem, (C)the holy city;
(D)for there shall no more come into you
    the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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13 and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,
    (A)who stretched out the heavens
    and (B)laid the foundations of the earth,
and you fear continually all the day
    because of the wrath of (C)the oppressor,
when he sets himself to destroy?
    And where is the wrath of (D)the oppressor?

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