The Sudden Restoration of Zion

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Before going into labor, she gave birth; before her pains came, she delivered a male child.

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Who ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Is a country born in one day? Is a nation brought forth all at once? For as soon as Tziyon went into labor, she brought forth her children.

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"Would I let the baby break through and not be born?" asks ADONAI. "Would I, who cause the birth, shut the womb?" asks your God.

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Rejoice with Yerushalayim! Be glad with her, all you who love her! Rejoice, rejoice with her, all of you who mourned for her;

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so that you nurse and are satisfied by her comforting breast, drinking deeply and delighting in the overflow of her glory.

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For ADONAI says, "I will spread shalom over her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried in her arm and cuddled in her lap.

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Like someone comforted by his mother, I will comfort you; in Yerushalayim you will be comforted."

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Your heart will rejoice at the sight, your bodies will flourish like newly sprouted grass. It will be known that the hand of ADONAI is with his servants; but with his enemies, his fury.

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