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Isaiah 61:7
In place of your shame, you will have a double portion; in place of disgrace, they will rejoice over their share. So they will possess double in their land, and eternal joy will be theirs.
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Isaiah 49:14-23
Zion says,“ The LORD has abandoned me; the Lord has forgotten me!”“ Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.Your builders hurry; those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.Look up, and look around. They all gather together; they come to you. As I live”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ you will wear all your children as jewelry, and put them on as a bride does.For your waste and desolate places and your land marked by ruins will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.Yet as you listen, the children that you have been deprived of will say,‘ This place is too small for me; make room for me so that I may settle.’Then you will say within yourself,‘ Who fathered these for me? I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive, exiled and wandering— but who brought them up? See, I was left by myself— but these, where did they come from?’”This is what the Lord GOD says: Look, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.Kings will be your guardians and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the ground and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who put their hope in me will not be put to shame.
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Jeremiah 30:17
But I will bring you health and will heal you of your wounds— this is the LORD’s declaration— for they call you Outcast, Zion whom no one cares about.
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Isaiah 35:10
and the ransomed of the LORD will return and come to Zion with singing, crowned with unending joy. Joy and gladness will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
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Jeremiah 33:11
a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride, and the voice of those saying, Give thanks to the LORD of Armies, for the LORD is good; his faithful love endures forever as they bring thanksgiving sacrifices to the temple of the LORD. For I will restore the fortunes of the land as in former times, says the LORD.
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Isaiah 54:6-14
For the LORD has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” says your God.“ I deserted you for a brief moment, but I will take you back with abundant compassion.In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting love,” says the LORD your Redeemer.“ For this is like the days of Noah to me: when I swore that the water of Noah would never flood the earth again, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.Though the mountains move and the hills shake, my love will not be removed from you and my covenant of peace will not be shaken,” says your compassionate LORD.“ Poor Jerusalem, storm-tossed, and not comforted, I will set your stones in black mortar, and lay your foundations in lapis lazuli.I will make your fortifications out of rubies, your gates out of sparkling stones, and all your walls out of precious stones.Then all your children will be taught by the LORD, their prosperity will be great,and you will be established on a foundation of righteousness. You will be far from oppression, you will certainly not be afraid; you will be far from terror, it will certainly not come near you.
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Isaiah 1:7-9
Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you— a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.Daughter Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.If the LORD of Armies had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.
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Isaiah 65:18
Then be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.
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Lamentations 1:1-2
How she sits alone, the city once crowded with people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has been put to forced labor.She weeps bitterly during the night, with tears on her cheeks. There is no one to offer her comfort, not one from all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
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Isaiah 6:12
and the LORD drives the people far away, leaving great emptiness in the land.
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Psalms 78:60-61
He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind.He gave up his strength to captivity and his splendor to the hand of a foe.
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Isaiah 4:2
On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
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Revelation 11:15-17
The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.The twenty-four elders, who were seated before God on their thrones, fell facedown and worshiped God,saying, We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.
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Revelation 11:2
But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
