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Isaiah 61:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The LORD will bring about justice and praise in every nation on earth, like flowers blooming in a garden.

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God said, “I command the earth to produce all kinds of plants, including fruit trees and grain.” And that's what happened.

Let cities overflow with food and hills be covered with grain, just like Mount Lebanon. Let the people in the cities prosper like wild flowers.

Let peace and justice rule every mountain and hill.

Loyalty will sprout from the ground; justice will look down from the sky above.

Let the north wind blow, the south wind too! Let them spread the aroma of my garden, so the one I love may enter and taste its delicious fruits.

The time is coming when the LORD will make his land fruitful and glorious again, and the people of Israel who survive will take great pride in what the land produces.

I have made a solemn promise, one that won't be broken: everyone will bow down and worship me.

They will admit that I alone can bring about justice. Everyone who is angry with me will be terribly ashamed and will turn to me.

Tell the heavens to send down justice like showers of rain. Prepare the earth for my saving power to sprout and produce justice that I, the LORD, create.

I will soon come to save you. I am not far away and will waste no time; I take pride in Israel and will save Jerusalem.

How I wish that you had obeyed my commands! Your success and good fortune would then have overflowed like a flooding river.

The LORD will always guide you and provide good things to eat when you are in the desert. He will make you healthy. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water or like a stream that never runs dry.

Violence, destruction, and ruin will never again be heard of within your borders. “Victory” will be the name you give to your walls; “Praise” will be the name you give to your gates.

Your people will live right and always own the land; they are the trees I planted to bring praise to me.

Jerusalem, I will speak up for your good. I will never be silent till you are safe and secure, sparkling like a flame.

Your great victory will be seen by every nation and king; the LORD will even give you a new name.

and not let him rest till he makes Jerusalem strong and famous everywhere.

The seeds that fell on good ground are the people who hear and understand the message. They produce as much as a hundred or sixty or thirty times what was planted.

Then he taught them many things by using stories. He said: A farmer went out to scatter seed in a field.

But a few seeds did fall on good ground where the plants produced a hundred or sixty or thirty times as much as was scattered.

But you are God's chosen and special people. You are a group of royal priests and a holy nation. God has brought you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Now you must tell all the wonderful things that he has done. The Scriptures say,




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