<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is about to deliver me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and we will celebrate with music<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for the rest of our lives in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The splendor<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> will be revealed,p> <p class="poetry">and all people<n id="2" /> will see it at the same time.p> <p class="poetry">For<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has decreed it.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated;p> <p class="poetry">your adversaries<n id="1" /> will be reduced to nothing<n id="2" /> and perish.p>

<p class="poetry">I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will dry up all their vegetation.p> <p class="poetry">I will turn streams into islands,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and dry up pools of water.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">who commissions<n id="1" /> Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to carry out all my wishes<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and to decree concerning Jerusalem, &#8216;She will be rebuilt,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and concerning the temple, &#8216;It will be reconstructed.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will all be ashamed and embarrassed;p> <p class="poetry">those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Turn to me so you can be delivered,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all you who live in the earth&#8217;s remote regions!p> <p class="poetry">For I am God, and I have no peer.p>

<p class="poetry">they will say about me,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Yes, the <sc>Lordsc> is a powerful deliverer.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All who are angry at him will cower before him.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You have heard; now look at all the evidence!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Will you not admit that what I say is true?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">From this point on I am announcing to you new eventsp> <p class="poetry">that are previously unrevealed and you do not know about.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will say<n id="1" /> to the prisoners, &#8216;Come out,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and to those who are in dark dungeons,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Emerge.&#8217;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will graze beside the roads;p> <p class="poetry">on all the slopes they will find pasture.p>

<p class="poetry">I will make your pinnacles out of gems,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your gates out of beryl,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and your outer wall<n id="3" /> out of beautiful<n id="4" /> stones.p>

<p class="poetry">you who practice ritual sex<n id="1" /> under the oaks and every green tree,p> <p class="poetry">who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">We all growl like bears,p> <p class="poetry">we coo mournfully like doves;p> <p class="poetry">we wait for deliverance,<n id="1" /> but there is none,p> <p class="poetry">for salvation, but it is far from us.p>

<p class="poetry">All of your people will be godly;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will possess the land permanently.p> <p class="poetry">I will plant them like a shoot;p> <p class="poetry">they will be the product of my labor,p> <p class="poetry">through whom I reveal my splendor.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">to announce the year when the <sc>Lordsc> will show his favor,p> <p class="poetry">the day when our God will seek vengeance,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to console all who mourn,p>

<p class="poetry">Yet,<n id="1" /> <sc>Lordsc>, you are our father.p> <p class="poetry">We are the clay, and you are our potter;p> <p class="poetry">we are all the product of your labor.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> judges all humanity<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">with fire and his sword;p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> will kill many.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then the <sc>Lordsc> will createp> <p class="poetry">over all of Mount Zion<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and over its convocationsp> <p class="poetry">a cloud and smoke by dayp> <p class="poetry">and a bright flame of fire by night;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">indeed a canopy will accompany the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s glorious presence.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">he will swallow up death permanently.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> will wipe away the tears from every face,p> <p class="poetry">and remove his people&#8217;s disgrace from all the earth.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, the <sc>Lordsc> has announced it!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">So in this way Jacob&#8217;s sin will be forgiven,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and this is how they will show they are finished sinning:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They will make all the stones of the altars<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">like crushed limestone,p> <p class="poetry">and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.<n id="4" />p>