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11 Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return
    and come with singing to Zion,
    and everlasting joy shall be upon their head.
They shall obtain gladness and joy,
    and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

12 I, even I, am He who comforts you.
    Who are you that you should be afraid of a man who shall die,
    and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,
13 and forget the Lord your maker
    who has stretched out the heavens
    and laid the foundations of the earth?
And have feared continually every day
    because of the fury of the oppressor
    as he makes ready to destroy?
Yet where is the fury of the oppressor?

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11 Those the Lord has rescued(A) will return.
    They will enter Zion with singing;(B)
    everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy(C) will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.(D)

12 “I, even I, am he who comforts(E) you.
    Who are you that you fear(F) mere mortals,(G)
    human beings who are but grass,(H)
13 that you forget(I) the Lord your Maker,(J)
    who stretches out the heavens(K)
    and who lays the foundations of the earth,
that you live in constant terror(L) every day
    because of the wrath of the oppressor,
    who is bent on destruction?
For where is the wrath of the oppressor?(M)

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