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Isaiah 60:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Open your eyes! Look around! Crowds are coming. Your sons are on their way from distant lands; your daughters are being carried like little children.

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He will give a signal to the nations, and he will bring together the refugees from Judah and Israel, who have been scattered all over the earth.

Other nations will lead them home, and Israel will make slaves of them in the land that belongs to the Lord. Israel will rule over those who once governed and ill-treated them.

I chose you to bring justice, and I am here at your side. I selected and sent you to bring light and my promise of hope to the nations.

I will say to the north and to the south, “Free my sons and daughters! Let them return from distant lands.

Then my people will return from distant lands in the north and the west and from the city of Syene.

“Your city will be built faster than it was destroyed— those who attacked it will retreat and leave.

Look around! You will see your people coming home. As surely as I live, I, the LORD, promise that your city with its people will be as lovely as a bride wearing her jewellery.”

They will bring your relatives from the nations as an offering to me, the LORD. They will come on horses, chariots, wagons, mules, and camels to Jerusalem, my holy mountain. It will be like the people of Israel bringing the right offering to my temple.

Israel, you belong to me, so don't be afraid. You deserved to be punished; that's why I scattered you in distant nations. But I am with you, and some day I will destroy those nations. Then I will bring you and your descendants back to your land, where I will protect you and give you peace. Then your fears will be gone. I, the LORD, have spoken.

I'll make Israel prosper again. You will rebuild your towns and live in them. You will drink wine from your own vineyards and eat the fruit you grow.

People will flock to you from Assyria and Egypt, from Babylonia and everywhere else.

I will shake the nations, and their treasures will be brought here. Then the brightness of my glory will fill this temple.

Many people will come from everywhere to enjoy the feast in the kingdom of heaven with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

You may say that there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.

The next Sabbath almost everyone in town came to hear the message about the Lord.




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