Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same understanding #– #because the one who suffers in the flesh is finished with sin #– #
This is what the Lord says: I will answer you in a time of favour, and I will help you in the day of salvation. I will keep you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to make them possess the desolate inheritances,
Today, I am the one who has made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land #– #against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the population.
‘Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; don’t be humiliated, for you will not be disgraced. For you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood.
Kings will be your guardians and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the ground and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who put their hope in me will not be put to shame.