For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and I guided him through all the land, and I multiplied his seed;

And I smote Egypt with the wonders that I wrought among them.

For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.

Thus says the Lord that redeems you, and who formed you from the womb: I am the Lord that performs all things; I stretched out the heaven alone, and established the earth.

and confirming the word of His servant, and verifying the counsel of His messengers; who says to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities of Edom, You shall be built, and her desert places shall spring forth.

Thus says the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I have formed you, and given you for a covenant of the nations, to establish the earth, and to cause to inherit the desert heritages;

They shall not hunger, neither shall they thirst; neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them; but He that has mercy on them shall comfort [them], and by fountains of waters shall He lead them.

Behold, these shall come from far; [and] these from the north and the west, and others from the land of the Persians.

But Zion said, The Lord has forsaken me, and, The Lord has forgotten me.

Behold, I have painted your walls on My hands, and you are continually before Me.

Lift up your eyes round about, and look on them all; behold, they are gathered together, and have come to you. [As] I live, says the Lord, you shall clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and put them on, as a bride in her attire.

For your sons whom you have lost shall say in your ears, The place [is too] narrow for me; make room for me that I may dwell.

Thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lift up My hand to the nations, and I will lift up My signal to the islands; and they shall bring your sons in [their] bosom, and shall bear your daughters on [their] shoulders.

Will anyone take spoils from a giant? And if one should take [a man] captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?

And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunk; and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.

Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and [there shall be] deep darkness on the nations; but the Lord shall appear upon you, and His glory shall be seen upon you.

Lift up your eyes round about, and behold your children gathered; all your sons have come from far, and your daughters shall be borne on [men's] shoulders.

and the camels of Midian and Ephah shall cover you; all from Saba shall come bearing gold, and shall bring frankincense, and they shall proclaim the salvation of the Lord.

Who are these [that] fly as clouds, and as doves with young ones to Me?

For I am the Lord who loves righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labor to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.

and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for He has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy; He has put a turban on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.

Ask, and see if a male has ever born a child? And [ask] concerning the fear, why they shall hold their loins, and [look for] safety; for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; [their] faces are turned to paleness.

For the Lord has ransomed Jacob, He has rescued him out of the hand of them [that were] stronger than he.

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And they shall bear their reproach, and the iniquity which they committed when they dwelt upon their land in peace. Yet there shall be none to terrify [them]

And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, when I have been manifested to them among the nations.

in a vision of God into the land of Israel, and set me on a very high mountain, and upon it [there was] as it were the frame of a city before [me].

And the man said to me, Look with your eyes at him whom you have seen, son of man, and hear with your ears, and lay up in your heart all things that I show you; for you have come in here that I might show you, and you shall show all things that you see to the house of Israel.

And he entered by seven steps into the gate that looks eastward, and he measured across the porch of the gate equal to the reed.

And the third chamber equal in length to the reed, and equal in breadth to the reed.

And the chambers of the gate of the chamber in front [were] three on one side and three on the other, and [there was] one measure to the three: [there was] one measure to the porches on this side and on that.

And the space before the chambers was narrowed to a cubit in front of the chambers on this side and on that side; and the chamber was six cubits this way, and six cubits that way.

And the open space of the porch of the gate outside was twenty cubits to the chambers round about the gate.

And [there were] secret windows to the chambers, and to the porches within the gate of the court round about, and in the same manner windows to the porches round about within. And on the porch [there were] palm trees on this side and on that side.

And the porches were behind the gates; according to the length of the gates, was the lower peristyle.

And behold, a gate looking northwards [belonging to] the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;

And its windows, and its porches, and its palm-trees, were according to [the dimensions of] the gate looking eastward; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the porches were within.

And he brought me to the south side, and behold, a gate looking southwards: and he measured it, and its chambers, and its posts, and its porches, according to these dimensions.

And it had seven steps, and porches within. And it [had] palm trees on the posts, one on one side, and one on the other side.

And he brought me into the inner court of the south gate; and he measured the gate according to these measures;

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And he brought me in at the gate that looks eastward, and he measured it according to these measures:

And [there were] porches [opening] into the inner court, and palm trees on the posts on this side and on that side; and it [had] eight steps.

and the chambers, and the posts, and the porches; and it [had] windows round about, and [it had] its porches: the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth [was] twenty-five cubits.

Its chambers and its doorways, and its porches at the second gate [served as] a drain,

And behind the drain for the whole burnt offerings at the north [gate], two tables eastward behind the second gate; and [behind] the porch of the gate [were] two tables eastward.

And [there were] four tables of hewn stone for whole burnt offerings, the breadth [of them was] a cubit and a half, and the length [of them] two cubits [and] a half, and [their] height was a cubit: on them they shall place the instruments with which they slay there the whole burnt offerings and the victims.

And he brought me into the inner court, and behold, [there were] two chambers in the inner court, one behind the gate looking to the north, turning southward, and one behind the southern gate, but which looks to the north.

And the chamber that looks to the north is for the priests that keep the charge of the altar; they are the sons of Zadok, those of the tribe of Levi who draw near to the Lord, to serve Him.

And he brought me into the porch of the house, and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door [was] fourteen cubits, and the sidepieces of the door of the porch [were] three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side.

But if their transgression is [the] riches of the world, and their defeat is [the] riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

if somehow I may provoke to jealousy my fellow Jews, and I may save some of them.

For if the firstfruit is holy, [so] also the lump; and if the root is holy, so also the branches.

do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, [remember] that you do not support the root, but the root [supports] you.

Well [said]. By unbelief they were broken off, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but fear.

Behold then the kindness and severity of God: upon those that fell, severity; but upon you, kindness, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also shall be cut off.

For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more shall these, the natural ones, be grafted into their own olive tree?