Zechariah 1:17
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17 Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, (B)and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again (C)choose Jerusalem.’”
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Isaiah 51:3
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3 For the Lord (A)comforts Zion;
he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like (B)Eden,
her desert like (C)the garden of the Lord;
(D)joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the voice of song.
Zechariah 2:12
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12 (A)And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again (B)choose Jerusalem.”
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Zephaniah 3:15-17
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15 The Lord has taken away the judgments against you;
he has cleared away your enemies.
(A)The King of Israel, (B)the Lord, is in your midst;
you shall never again fear evil.
16 (C)On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Fear not, O Zion;
(D)let not your hands grow weak.
17 (E)The Lord your God is in your midst,
(F)a mighty one who will save;
(G)he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
Isaiah 14:1
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The Restoration of Jacob
14 (A)For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and (B)will set them in their own land, and (C)sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
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Obadiah 20
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20 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel
shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as (A)Zarephath,
and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
shall possess the cities of the Negeb.
Ezekiel 36:33
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33 “Thus says the Lord God: On the day that (A)I cleanse you from all your iniquities, (B)I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.
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Ezekiel 36:10-11
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10 And (A)I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. (B)The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. 11 And I will multiply on you (C)man and beast, and (D)they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in (E)your former times, and (F)will do more good to you than ever before. (G)Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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Jeremiah 32:43-44
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43 (A)Fields shall be bought in this land (B)of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; (C)it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ 44 Fields shall be bought for money, and (D)deeds shall be signed and (E)sealed and (F)witnessed, (G)in the land of Benjamin, (H)in the places about Jerusalem, (I)and in the cities of Judah, (J)in the cities of the hill country, (K)in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for (L)I will restore their fortunes, declares the Lord.”
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Isaiah 66:13
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13 As one whom his mother comforts,
so (A)I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 61:4-6
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4 (A)They shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.
5 (B)Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;
foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;
6 (C)but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;
they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
(D)you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
and in their glory you shall boast.
Isaiah 54:8
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8 (A)In overflowing anger for a moment
I hid my face from you,
(B)but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”
says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Isaiah 52:9
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9 (A)Break forth together into singing,
(B)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for (C)the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 44:26
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26 (A)who confirms the word of his servant
and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
(B)and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
and I will raise up their ruins’;
Psalm 69:35
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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;
Nehemiah 11:20
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20 And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, (A)every one in his inheritance.
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2 Chronicles 6:6
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6 (A)but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, (B)and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
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Ephesians 1:4
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4 (A)even as he (B)chose us in him (C)before the foundation of the world, that we should be (D)holy and blameless before him. In love
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Romans 11:28-29
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28 As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are (A)beloved for the sake of their forefathers. 29 For the gifts and (B)the calling of God are irrevocable.
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Zechariah 3:2
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2 And the Lord said to Satan, (A)“The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has (B)chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this (C)a brand[a] plucked from the fire?”
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- Zechariah 3:2 That is, a burning stick
Amos 9:14
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14 (A)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
and (B)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
(C)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
Jeremiah 33:13
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13 (A)In the cities of the hill country, (B)in the cities of the Shephelah, (C)and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, (D)the places about Jerusalem, (E)and in the cities of Judah, (F)flocks shall again pass under the hands (G)of the one who counts them, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 31:23-24
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23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, (A)when I restore their fortunes:
24 (E)And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and (F)the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.
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Jeremiah 31:13
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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.
Isaiah 51:12
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12 “I, I am he (A)who comforts you;
who are you that you are afraid of (B)man who dies,
of the son of man who is made (C)like grass,
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