19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    (B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”

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Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.”

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(A)They come from a distant land,
    from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
    to destroy the whole land.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:5 Or earth; also verse 9

To the Church in Ephesus

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of (A)him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, (B)who walks among the seven golden lampstands.

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17 (A)But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape,
    and it shall be holy,
(B)and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

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21 (A)I will avenge their blood,
    blood I have not avenged,[a]
    (B)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

32 And it shall come to pass that (A)everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. (B)For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among (C)the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.

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For there shall be a day when watchmen will call
    in (A)the hill country of Ephraim:
(B)‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
    to the Lord our God.’”

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19 (A)Have you utterly rejected Judah?
    Does your soul loathe Zion?
Why have you struck us down
    (B)so that there is no healing for us?
(C)We looked for peace, but no good came;
    (D)for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

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Why then has this people (A)turned away
    in perpetual (B)backsliding?
(C)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
(D)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    (E)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

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30 And you, O desolate one,
what do you mean that you dress in scarlet,
    (A)that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,
    (B)that you enlarge your eyes with paint?
In vain you beautify yourself.
    (C)Your lovers despise you;
    they seek your life.
31 For I heard (D)a cry as of a woman in labor,
    anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,
the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath,
    (E)stretching out her hands,
“Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

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16 Warn the nations that he is coming;
    announce to Jerusalem,
“Besiegers come (A)from a distant land;
    they shout against the cities of Judah.
17 Like keepers of a field (B)are they against her all around,
    because she has rebelled against me,
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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22 For the Lord is our (A)judge; the Lord is our (B)lawgiver;
    the Lord is our (C)king; he will save us.

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Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
    for great (A)in your[a] midst is (B)the Holy One of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion

Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly (D)estranged.

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Let Israel (A)be glad in (B)his Maker;
    let the children of Zion rejoice in their (C)King!

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10 (A)The Lord will reign forever,
    your God, O Zion, to all generations.
(B)Praise the Lord!

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21 Blessed be the Lord (A)from Zion,
    he who (B)dwells in Jerusalem!
(C)Praise the Lord!

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16 (A)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (B)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to (C)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (D)the Rock that bore[a] you,
    and you (E)forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 (F)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of (G)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (H)‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 (I)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger (J)with their idols.
So (K)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with (L)a foolish nation.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered

16 (A)I will scatter them among the nations (B)whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will (C)send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

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