Isaiah 66:8-10

New Living Translation

⁸ Who has ever seen anything as strange as this?
    Who ever heard of such a thing?
Has a nation ever been born in a single day?
    Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment?
But by the time Jerusalem’s^[a] birth pains begin,
    her children will be born.
⁹ Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth
    and then not deliver it?” asks the Lord.
“No! I would never keep this nation from being born,”
    says your God.

¹⁰ “Rejoice with Jerusalem!
    Be glad with her, all you who love her
    and all you who mourn for her.