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The Restoration of Israel

“This what the Lord says:

“I’ll answer[a] you in a time of favor,
    and on a day of salvation I’ll help[b] you.
I have watched over you,
    and given you as a covenant for the people,
to restore the land,
    to reassign the inheritances that have been devastated;
saying to captives, ‘Come out!’
    and[c] to those who are in darkness, ‘Be free!’[d]

“They will feed on all the mountains,[e]
    and their pasture will be on all the barren hills.
10 They won’t hunger or thirst,
    nor will the desert heat or sun beat upon them;
for the one who has compassion on them will drive them
    and guide them alongside springs of water.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:8 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX reads I have answered
  2. Isaiah 49:8 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT LXX read I have helped
  3. Isaiah 49:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lack and
  4. Isaiah 49:9 Or darkness,Show yourselves!’
  5. Isaiah 49:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads by the roads; LXX reads in all their roads