12 The wilderness pastures overflow,
and the hills are robed with joy.(A)

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12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;(A)
    the hills are clothed with gladness.(B)

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11 Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” (A) And he replied:

Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,(B)
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,

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11 Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”(A)

And he answered:

“Until the cities lie ruined(B)
    and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted(C)
    and the fields ruined and ravaged,(D)

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21 On that day
a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
22 and from the abundant milk they give
he will eat curds,
for every survivor in the land will eat curds and honey.(A)

23 And on that day
every place where there were a thousand vines,
worth a thousand pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.(B)
24 A man will go there with bow and arrows
because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
25 You will not go to all the hills
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.

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21 In that day,(A) a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.(B) 22 And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds(C) and honey.(D) 23 In that day,(E) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[a](F) there will be only briers and thorns.(G) 24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(H) and thorns. 25 As for all the hills(I) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(J) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms

10 For the fortified city will be desolate,
pastures deserted and abandoned like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.

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10 The fortified city stands desolate,(A)
    an abandoned settlement, forsaken(B) like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,(C)
    there they lie down;(D)
    they strip its branches bare.

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15 until the Spirit[a] from on high is poured out on us.(A)
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 32:15 Or a wind

15 till the Spirit(A) is poured on us from on high,
    and the desert becomes a fertile field,(B)
    and the fertile field seems like a forest.(C)

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18 I will open rivers on the barren heights,(A)
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool
and dry land into springs.(B)
19 I will plant cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees
in the wilderness.(C)
I will put juniper, elm, and cypress trees together
in the desert,

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18 I will make rivers flow(A) on barren heights,
    and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert(B) into pools of water,(C)
    and the parched ground into springs.(D)
19 I will put in the desert(E)
    the cedar and the acacia,(F) the myrtle and the olive.
I will set junipers(G) in the wasteland,
    the fir and the cypress(H) together,(I)

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For the Lord will comfort Zion;(A)
he will comfort all her waste places,
and he will make her wilderness like Eden,(B)
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.(C)
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.

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The Lord will surely comfort(A) Zion(B)
    and will look with compassion on all her ruins;(C)
he will make her deserts like Eden,(D)
    her wastelands(E) like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness(F) will be found in her,
    thanksgiving(G) and the sound of singing.

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12 You will indeed go out with joy
and be peacefully guided;
the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.(A)
13 Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come up,
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up;(B)
this will stand as a monument for the Lord,(C)
an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.

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12 You will go out in joy(A)
    and be led forth in peace;(B)
the mountains and hills
    will burst into song(C) before you,
and all the trees(D) of the field
    will clap their hands.(E)
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
    and instead of briers(F) the myrtle(G) will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,(H)
    for an everlasting sign,
    that will endure forever.”

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