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\c 52
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\q1
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\v 1 You people who live in the holy city of Jerusalem, wake up!
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\q2 Be strong again!
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\q1 Show that your city is beautiful and glorious;
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\q2 uncircumcised foreigners, those who do not honor Yahweh, will never again enter your city to attack you.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 2 People of Jerusalem, get up from where you have been sitting in the dust,
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\q2 and sit down properly!
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\q1 You people who have returned from being exiled,
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\q2 take off from your neck the chains that the Babylonians fastened around your necks,
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\p
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\v 3 because this is what Yahweh says:
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\q1 "When I sent you as captives to Babylonia,
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\q2 no one paid me for making that happen.
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\q1 So now I will bring you back,
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\q2 and I will not pay anyone for releasing you to me."
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\s5
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\p
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\v 4 Yahweh our Lord also says this:
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\q1 "Long ago, my people went to Egypt to live there.
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\q2 Later the soldiers of Assyria oppressed them.
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\s5
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\p
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\v 5 But now think about what is happening:
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\q1 My people are being forced to be slaves again, this time by the people of Babylonia.
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\q2 And my people's own rulers wail and lament,
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\q1 and the other people groups in the world despise me.
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\q1
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\v 6 But after that, my people will love me and honor me;
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\q2 when that happens, they will know that I am the one who said that this would happen.
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\q1 It is I, Yahweh, who will do it."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 It is a wonderful thing when messengers come from across the mountains and
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\q2 bring good news,
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\q1 the news about God giving us peace and saving us,
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\q1 the news that the God to whom we Israelite people belong is now showing everyone his power as king!
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\q1
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\v 8 The watchmen who are guarding the city will shout and sing joyfully,
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\q2 because while they are watching,
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\q1 they will all see Yahweh returning to Jerusalem.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 9 Jerusalem was ruined,
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\q2 but the people who are there now should start to sing joyfully,
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\q1 because Yahweh will encourage his people;
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\q2 he will set his people free and bring them back to Jerusalem.
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\q1
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\v 10 Yahweh will show all the nations that he is holy and powerful.
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\q1 People in the most remote places on earth will know
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\q2 that he has rescued his people.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 11 So leave the places where you were taken to when you were captured,
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\q2 where everything is unacceptable to God.
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\q1 You men who are carrying the items used in the temple of Yahweh,
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\q2 leave there and return to Jerusalem,
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\q2 and purify yourselves in order to be acceptable to worship God.
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\q1
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\v 12 But it will not be necessary for you to leave suddenly,
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\q2 to flee in panic,
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\q1 because Yahweh will go in front of you;
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\q2 and he will also protect you from being attacked at the rear while you travel.
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\q1
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\v 13 Yahweh says, "Listen carefully!
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\q2 My servant will act wisely and do all that I want him to do,
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\q1 and I will honor him more than anyone else.
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\q1
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\v 14 But many people will be appalled when they see what has happened to him.
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\q2 Because he was beaten very badly, his appearance will be changed;
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\q3 people will hardly recognize that he is a human.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 15 But he will surprise the people of many nations;
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\q2 even kings will be silent when they stand in front of him,
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\q1 because they will see someone that no one had told them about previously,
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\q2 and they will understand things that they had not heard about before.
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