Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age.

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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem,(A) each of them with cane in hand because of their age.

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22 But you have come to (A)Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, (B)the heavenly Jerusalem, and to (C)innumerable angels in festal gathering,

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22 But you have come to Mount Zion,(A) to the city(B) of the living God,(C) the heavenly Jerusalem.(D) You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,

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11 Women are raped in Zion,
    young women in the towns of Judah.
12 (A)Princes are hung up by their hands;
    (B)no respect is shown to the elders.
13 Young men are compelled to (C)grind at the mill,
    and boys stagger (D)under loads of wood.
14 (E)The old men have left the city gate,
    the young men (F)their music.
15 (G)The joy of our hearts has ceased;
    (H)our dancing has been turned to mourning.

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11 Women have been violated(A) in Zion,
    and virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands;
    elders(B) are shown no respect.(C)
13 Young men toil at the millstones;
    boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders are gone from the city gate;
    the young men have stopped their music.(D)
15 Joy is gone from our hearts;
    our dancing has turned to mourning.(E)

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20 Look, O Lord, and see!
    (A)With whom have you dealt thus?
(B)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
    the children of (C)their tender care?
Should (D)priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 In the dust of the streets
    (E)lie the young and the old;
(F)my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
(G)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering (H)without pity.

22 You summoned as if to (I)a festival day
    (J)my terrors on every side,
(K)and on the day of the anger of the Lord
    no one escaped or survived;
(L)those whom I held and raised
    my enemy destroyed.

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20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
    Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(A)
    the children they have cared for?(B)
Should priest and prophet be killed(C)
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?(D)

21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(E)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(F)

22 “As you summon to a feast day,
    so you summoned against me terrors(G) on every side.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
    no one escaped(H) or survived;
those I cared for and reared(I)
    my enemy has destroyed.”

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20 No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for (A)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and (B)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 (C)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 (D)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
(E)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy[a] the work of their hands.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out

20 “Never again will there be in it
    an infant(A) who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;(B)
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses(C) and dwell in them;
    they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(D)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,(E)
    or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,(F)
    so will be the days(G) of my people;
my chosen(H) ones will long enjoy
    the work of their hands.

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  1. Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches

17 And Job died, an old man, and (A)full of days.

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17 And so Job died, an old man and full of years.(A)

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26 You shall come to your grave in (A)ripe old age,
    like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

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26 You will come to the grave in full vigor,(A)
    like sheaves gathered in season.(B)

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31 Behold, (A)the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

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31 The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,(A)

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