Isaiah 60:1-2
New Living Translation
Future Glory for Jerusalem
60 “Arise, Jerusalem! Let your light shine for all to see.
For the glory of the Lord rises to shine on you.
2 Darkness as black as night covers all the nations of the earth,
but the glory of the Lord rises and appears over you.
Isaiah 54:6-8
New Living Translation
6 For the Lord has called you back from your grief—
as though you were a young wife abandoned by her husband,”
says your God.
7 “For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with great compassion I will take you back.
8 In a burst of anger I turned my face away for a little while.
But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”
says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
New Living Translation
11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
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Revelation 11:14-15
New Living Translation
14 The second terror is past, but look, the third terror is coming quickly.
The Seventh Trumpet Brings the Third Terror
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices shouting in heaven:
“The world has now become the Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,[a]
and he will reign forever and ever.”
Footnotes
- 11:15 Or his Messiah.
Ephesians 5:8
New Living Translation
8 For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!
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Matthew 5:4
New Living Translation
4 God blesses those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Isaiah 40:2
New Living Translation
2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem.
Tell her that her sad days are gone
and her sins are pardoned.
Yes, the Lord has punished her twice over
for all her sins.”
Isaiah 12:1-2
New Living Translation
Songs of Praise for Salvation
12 In that day you will sing:
“I will praise you, O Lord!
You were angry with me, but not any more.
Now you comfort me.
2 See, God has come to save me.
I will trust in him and not be afraid.
The Lord God is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.”
Ecclesiastes 3:4
New Living Translation
4 A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
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