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For God has ordered that every high mountain and the everlasting hills be made low and the valleys filled up, to make level ground, so that Israel may walk safely in the glory of God.

Arise, O Jerusalem, stand upon the height and look toward the east, and see your children gathered from west and east, at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them. For they went forth from you on foot, led away by their enemies; but God will bring them back to you, … Read more

For your name will for ever be called by God, “Peace of righteousness and glory of godliness.

Put on the robe of the righteousness from God; put on your head the diadem of the glory of the Everlasting. For God will show your splendor everywhere under heaven.

Take courage, O Jerusalem, for he who named you will comfort you.

Take courage, my children, cry to God, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemy.

I will bring them again into the land which I swore to give to their fathers, to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob, and they will rule over it; and I will increase them, and they will not be diminished.

And will turn from their stubbornness and their wicked deeds; for they will remember the ways of their fathers, who sinned before the Lord.

And they will know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them a heart that obeys and ears that hear;

I will restore the fortunes of my people israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of the land … Read more

Behold, the days are coming,” says the lord, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.