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10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky,
    and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth,
    and makes it grow and bud,
    and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 so is my word that goes out of my mouth:
    it will not return to me void,
    but it will accomplish that which I please,
    and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
12 For you shall go out with joy,
    and be led out with peace.
The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing;
    and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up;
    and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up.
It will make a name for Yahweh,
    for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

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10 “For just as the rain and snow come down from heaven,
    and do not return there without watering the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    yielding seed for the sower and bread for eating,[a]
11 so will my message be that goes out of my mouth—
    it won’t return to me empty.
Instead, it will accomplish what I desire,
    and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

12 “For you will go out in joy,
    and come back[b] with peace;
the mountains and the hills
    will burst into song before you,
        and all the trees in[c] the fields[d] will clap their hands.
13 Instead of thornbushes, pine trees will grow,
    and[e] instead of briers, myrtles will grow;
and they[f] will be a sign for the Lord,
    and an everlasting name[g] that will not be cut off.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 55:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads for the eater
  2. Isaiah 55:12 So 1QIsaa. MT reads and be led back cf. LXX
  3. Isaiah 55:12 Or of
  4. Isaiah 55:12 Or orchards
  5. Isaiah 55:13 So 1QIsaa MTmss; MT LXX lacks and
  6. Isaiah 55:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read it
  7. Isaiah 55:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read a name, an everlasting sign