(A)Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
    O virgin Israel!
(B)Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines
    and shall go forth in (C)the dance of the merrymakers.

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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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13 (A)Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
    and the young men and the old shall be merry.
(B)I will turn their mourning into joy;
    I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

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“Fallen, no more to rise,
    is (A)the virgin Israel;
forsaken on her land,
    with none to raise her up.”

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10 And (A)he carried me away in the Spirit to (B)a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, 11 (C)having the glory of God, (D)its radiance (E)like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall, (F)with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed— 13 on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve (G)foundations, and (H)on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 And the one who spoke with me (I)had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. 16 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia.[a] Its length and width and height are equal. 17 He also measured its wall, 144 cubits[b] by (J)human measurement, which is also (K)an angel's measurement. 18 The wall was built of (L)jasper, while the city was pure gold, like (M)clear glass. 19 (N)The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and (O)the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

22 And (P)I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23 And the city (Q)has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for (R)the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 By its light (S)will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth (T)will bring their glory into it, 25 and (U)its gates will never be shut by day—and (V)there will be no night there. 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. 27 But (W)nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's (X)book of life.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 21:16 About 1,380 miles; a stadion was about 607 feet or 185 meters
  2. Revelation 21:17 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

16 (A)“‘After this I will return,
and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen;
I will rebuild its ruins,
     and I will restore it,

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Let them praise his name with (A)dancing,
    making melody to him with (B)tambourine and (C)lyre!

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23 And bring (A)the fattened calf and kill it, and (B)let us eat and celebrate.

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13 What can I say for you, (A)to what compare you,
    O daughter of Jerusalem?
(B)What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
    O virgin daughter of Zion?
(C)For your ruin is vast as the sea;
    who can heal you?

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21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she (B)wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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15 “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
(A)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

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21 (A)“Set up road markers for yourself;
    make yourself guideposts;
(B)consider well the highway,
    (C)the road by which you went.
Return, O virgin Israel,
    return to these your cities.

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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.
19 (C)Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,
    and the voices of those who celebrate.
(D)I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
    I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.

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13 “Therefore thus says the Lord:
(A)Ask among the nations,
    Who has heard the like of this?
The virgin Israel
    has done (B)a very horrible thing.

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10 See, I have set you this day (A)over nations and over kingdoms,
(B)to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

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22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“‘She despises you, she scorns you—
    (A)the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you—
    the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Praise him with (A)trumpet sound;
    praise him with (B)lute and (C)harp!
Praise him with (D)tambourine and (E)dance;
    praise him with (F)strings and (G)pipe!
Praise him with sounding (H)cymbals;
    praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Let (I)everything that has breath praise the Lord!
(J)Praise the Lord!

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35 For (A)God will save Zion
    and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;

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18 (A)Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    (B)build up the walls of Jerusalem;

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Saul's Jealousy of David

As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, (A)the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.[a] And the women (B)sang to one another as they celebrated,

(C)“Saul has struck down his thousands,
    and David his ten thousands.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:6 Or triangles, or three-stringed instruments

34 Then Jephthah came to his home at (A)Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him (B)with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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20 Then (A)Miriam (B)the prophetess, the (C)sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and (D)all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21 And Miriam sang to them:

(E)“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

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Rejoicing in Heaven

19 After this I heard (A)what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out,

“Hallelujah!
(B)Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
    for (C)his judgments are true and just;
for he has judged (D)the great prostitute
    who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and (E)has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

Once more they cried out,

“Hallelujah!
(F)The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”

And (G)the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” And from the throne came a voice saying,

(H)“Praise our God,
    all you his servants,
(I)you who fear him,
    small and great.”

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Then I heard what seemed to be (J)the voice of a great multitude, like (K)the roar of many waters and (L)like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,

“Hallelujah!
For the Lord our God
    the Almighty (M)reigns.
Let us rejoice and exult
    and give him the glory,
for (N)the marriage of the Lamb has come,
    and (O)his Bride has made herself ready;
(P)it was granted her to clothe herself
    with fine linen, bright and pure”—

for the fine linen is (Q)the righteous deeds of the saints.

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20 (A)built on the foundation of the (B)apostles and prophets, (C)Christ Jesus himself being (D)the cornerstone, 21 (E)in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into (F)a holy temple in the Lord. 22 In him (G)you also are being built together (H)into a dwelling place for God by[a] the Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 2:22 Or in

The Restoration of Israel

11 “In that day (A)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,

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