O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.’

The Lord is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.”

The splendor of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the Lord has decreed it.”

Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated; your adversaries will be reduced to nothing and perish.

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

who commissions Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd to carry out all my wishes and to decree concerning Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and concerning the temple, ‘It will be reconstructed.’”

They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.

Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.

they will say about me, “Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” All who are angry at him will cower before him.

You have heard; now look at all the evidence! Will you not admit that what I say is true? From this point on I am announcing to you new events that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about.

You will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons, ‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture.

I will make your pinnacles out of gems, your gates out of beryl, and your outer wall out of beautiful stones.

you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

All of your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.

to announce the year when the Lord will show his favor, the day when our God will seek vengeance, to console all who mourn,

Yet, Lord, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.

For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

Then the Lord said, “This means destruction will break out from the north on all who live in the land.

Now listen to what the Lord has to say, you descendants of Jacob, all you family groups from the nation of Israel.