So the Lord says, “I will come back to Jerusalem and comfort her.” The Lord All-Powerful says, “Jerusalem will be rebuilt, and my house will be built there.”

The Lord says, ‘I will be a wall of fire around her, to protect her, and to bring glory to that city, I will live there.’”

God Calls His People Home

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The Lord says, “Zion, be happy, because I am coming, and I will live in your city.

Then the angel of the Lord said, “The Lord says that you are wrong, and he will continue to correct you! The Lord has chosen Jerusalem to be his special city. He saved that city—it was like a burning stick pulled from the fire.”

The Lord says, “I have come back to Zion, and I am living in Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be called Faithful City. The mountain of the Lord All-Powerful will be called Holy Mountain.”

The people in Ashdod will not even know who their real fathers are. The Lord says, “I will completely destroy the proud Philistines.

The Lord says, “I am very angry with the shepherds. I made them responsible for what happens to my sheep.” (The people of Judah are his flock, and the Lord All-Powerful really does take care of his flock. He cares for them as a soldier cares for his beautiful war horse.)

The Lord says, “At that time I will destroy the nations that came to fight against Jerusalem.