(A)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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35 And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like (A)the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’ 36 Then (B)the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the Lord; I have rebuilt the ruined places and (C)replanted that which was desolate. (D)I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.

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(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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(A)Fear not, for I am with you;
    (B)I will bring your offspring from the east,
    and from the west I will gather you.
I will say to the north, Give up,
    and to the south, Do not withhold;
bring (C)my sons from afar
    and (D)my daughters from the end of the earth,

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(A)And nations shall come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of your rising.

(B)Lift up your eyes all around, and see;
    they all gather together, they come to you;
(C)your sons shall come from afar,
    and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
Then you shall see and (D)be radiant;
    your heart shall thrill and exult,[a]
because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
    (E)the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
A multitude of camels shall cover you,
    the young camels of (F)Midian and (G)Ephah;
    all those from (H)Sheba shall come.
(I)They shall bring gold and frankincense,
    and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
All the flocks of (J)Kedar shall be gathered to you;
    the rams of (K)Nebaioth shall minister to you;
(L)they shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
    (M)and I will beautify my beautiful house.

Who are these that fly like a cloud,
    and (N)like doves to their windows?
For (O)the coastlands shall hope for me,
    (P)the ships of Tarshish first,
(Q)to bring your children from afar,
    their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
    and for the Holy One of Israel,
    because (R)he has made you beautiful.

10 (S)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
    and (T)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
    but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 (U)Your gates shall be open continually;
    day and night they shall not be shut,
(V)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
    with their kings led in procession.
12 (W)For the nation and kingdom
    that will not serve you shall perish;
    those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
13 (X)The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
    the cypress, the plane, and (Y)the pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
    and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

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  1. Isaiah 60:5 Hebrew your heart shall tremble and grow wide

18 (A)Lift up your eyes around and see;
    they all gather, they come to you.
(B)As I live, declares the Lord,
    (C)you shall put them all on as an ornament;
    you shall bind them on as a bride does.

19 “Surely your waste and your desolate places
    and your devastated land—
(D)surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants,
    and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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May he have dominion from (A)sea to sea,
    and from (B)the River[a] to the (C)ends of the earth!
May desert tribes (D)bow down before him,
    and his enemies (E)lick the dust!
10 May the kings of (F)Tarshish and of (G)the coastlands
    render him (H)tribute;
may the kings of (I)Sheba and (J)Seba
    bring gifts!
11 May all kings (K)fall down before him,
    all nations serve him!

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  1. Psalm 72:8 That is, the Euphrates

14 Your offspring shall be like (A)the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and (B)your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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12 (A)Behold, these shall come from afar,
    and behold, (B)these from the north and from the west,[a]
    and these from the land of Syene.”[b]

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  1. Isaiah 49:12 Hebrew from the sea
  2. Isaiah 49:12 Dead Sea Scroll; Masoretic Text Sinim

The Lord's Chosen Servant

42 (A)Behold (B)my servant, whom I uphold,
    my chosen, (C)in whom my soul delights;
(D)I have put my Spirit upon him;
    (E)he will bring forth justice to the nations.
He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,
    or make it heard in the street;
(F)a bruised reed he will not break,
    and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;
    (G)he will faithfully bring forth justice.
He will not grow faint or be discouraged[a]
    till he has established justice in the earth;
    and (H)the coastlands wait for his law.

Thus says God, the Lord,
    who created the heavens (I)and stretched them out,
    who spread out the earth and what comes from it,
(J)who gives breath to the people on it
    and spirit to those who walk in it:
“I am the Lord; (K)I have called you[b] in righteousness;
    I will take you by the hand and keep you;
I will give you (L)as a covenant for the people,
    (M)a light for the nations,
    (N)to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
    (O)from the prison those who sit in darkness.
I am the Lord; that is my name;
    (P)my glory I give to no other,
    nor my praise to carved idols.
Behold, the former things have come to pass,
    (Q)and new things I now declare;
before they spring forth
    I tell you of them.”

Sing to the Lord a New Song

10 (R)Sing to the Lord a new song,
    his praise from the end of the earth,
(S)you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it,
    (T)the coastlands and their inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice,
    the villages that (U)Kedar inhabits;
let the habitants of (V)Sela sing for joy,
    let them shout from the top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
    and declare his praise in (W)the coastlands.

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  1. Isaiah 42:4 Or bruised
  2. Isaiah 42:6 The Hebrew for you is singular; four times in this verse

(A)It shall come to pass in the latter days
    that (B)the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
    and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and (C)all the nations shall flow to it,
    and (D)many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For (E)out of Zion shall go forth the law,[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations,
    and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
(F)and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
    and their spears into pruning hooks;
(G)nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
    neither shall they learn war anymore.

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  1. Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching

10 The (A)scepter shall not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler's staff (B)from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;[a]
    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

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  1. Genesis 49:10 By a slight revocalization; a slight emendation yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Targum) until he comes to whom it belongs; Hebrew until Shiloh comes, or until he comes to Shiloh

(A)Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;
    foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;
(B)but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;
    they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
(C)you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
    and in their glory you shall boast.
(D)Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;
    instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;
therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;
    they shall have everlasting joy.

(E)For I the Lord love justice;
    I hate robbery and wrong;[a]
(F)I will faithfully give them their recompense,
    (G)and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Their offspring shall be known among the nations,
    and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
    that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.

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  1. Isaiah 61:8 Or robbery with a burnt offering

(A)Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
    and (B)a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
    (C)for he has glorified you.

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(A)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all (B)my holy mountain;
(C)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

10 In that day (D)the root of (E)Jesse, who shall stand as (F)a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

11 (G)In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, (H)from Assyria, (I)from Egypt, from (J)Pathros, from (K)Cush,[a] from (L)Elam, from (M)Shinar, from (N)Hamath, and from (O)the coastlands of the sea.

12 He will raise (P)a signal for the nations
    and will assemble (Q)the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
    from the four corners of the earth.

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  1. Isaiah 11:11 Probably Nubia

23 (A)if indeed you continue in the faith, (B)stable and steadfast, not shifting from (C)the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed (D)in all creation[a] under heaven, (E)and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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  1. Colossians 1:23 Or to every creature

12 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion[a] mean!

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  1. Romans 11:12 Greek their fullness

18 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for

(A)“Their voice has gone out (B)to all the earth,
    and their words to the ends of the world.”

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25 As indeed he says in Hosea,

(A)“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
26 (B)“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called (C)‘sons of the living God.’”

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The Restoration of Israel

Thus says the Lord:
(A)“In a (B)time of favor I have answered you;
    in a day of salvation I have helped you;
I will keep you (C)and give you
    as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land,
    (D)to apportion the desolate heritages,

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The Ransomed Shall Return

35 (A)The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
    (B)the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
it shall blossom abundantly
    and rejoice with joy and singing.
(C)The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
    the majesty of (D)Carmel and (E)Sharon.
(F)They shall see the glory of the Lord,
    the majesty of our God.

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