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12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that I will restore to you double.(A)

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12 Return to your fortress,(A) you prisoners of hope;
    even now I announce that I will restore twice(B) as much to you.

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Job’s Fortunes Are Restored Twofold

10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends, and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.(A)

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10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes(A) and gave him twice as much as he had before.(B)

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21 But this I call to mind,
    and therefore I have hope:

22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,[a]
    his mercies never come to an end;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off

21 Yet this I call to mind
    and therefore I have hope:

22 Because of the Lord’s great love(A) we are not consumed,(B)
    for his compassions never fail.(C)

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Because their[a] shame was double
    and dishonor was proclaimed as their lot,
therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;
    everlasting joy shall be theirs.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 61.7 Heb your

Instead of your shame(A)
    you will receive a double(B) portion,
and instead of disgrace
    you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit(C) a double portion in your land,
    and everlasting joy(D) will be yours.

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18 so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.(A)

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18 God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie,(A) we who have fled to take hold of the hope(B) set before us may be greatly encouraged.

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10 The Lord has brought forth our vindication;
    come, let us declare in Zion
    the work of the Lord our God.(A)

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10 “‘The Lord has vindicated(A) us;
    come, let us tell in Zion
    what the Lord our God has done.’(B)

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The Lord is good,
    a stronghold in a day of trouble;
he protects those who take refuge in him,

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The Lord is good,(A)
    a refuge in times of trouble.(B)
He cares for(C) those who trust in him,(D)

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17 there is hope for your future,
            says the Lord:
    your children shall come back to their own country.(A)

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17 So there is hope(A) for your descendants,”
declares the Lord.
    “Your children(B) will return to their own land.

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15 From there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.(A)

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15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor[a](A) a door of hope.
There she will respond[b](B) as in the days of her youth,(C)
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble.
  2. Hosea 2:15 Or sing

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that she has served her term,
    that her penalty is paid,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double for all her sins.(A)

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Speak tenderly(A) to Jerusalem,
    and proclaim to her
that her hard service(B) has been completed,(C)
    that her sin has been paid for,(D)
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double(E) for all her sins.

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In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the people of Israel shall come, they and the people of Judah together; they shall come weeping as they seek the Lord their God.(A) They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the Lord by an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

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“In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together(A)
    will go in tears(B) to seek(C) the Lord their God.
They will ask the way(D) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come(E) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant(F)
    that will not be forgotten.

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16 The Lord roars from Zion
    and utters his voice from Jerusalem,
    and the heavens and the earth shake.
But the Lord is a refuge for his people,
    a stronghold for the people of Israel.(A)

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16 The Lord will roar(A) from Zion
    and thunder from Jerusalem;(B)
    the earth and the heavens will tremble.(C)
But the Lord will be a refuge(D) for his people,
    a stronghold(E) for the people of Israel.

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11 Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’(A)

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11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’(A)

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