Isaiah 66:7–14

Zion’s Delivery

7 Before she was in labor she gave birth;

before labor painsi came to her, she gave birth to a son.

8 Who has heard anything like this?

Who has seen anything like these things?

Can a land be born in one day?

Or can a nation be born in a moment?

Yet when she was in labor, Zion indeed gave birth to her children.

9 Shall I myself break open and not ⌊deliver⌋?”j says Yahweh,

“or I who ⌊delivers⌋k lock up the womb?” says your God.

10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem

and shout in exultation with her, all those who love her!

Rejoice with her in joy, all those who mourn over her,

11 so that you may suck and be satisfied from her ⌊consoling breast⌋,l

so that you may drink deeply and refresh yourselves from her ⌊heavy breast⌋.”m

12 For thus says Yahweh:

“Look! I am about to spread prosperity out to her like a river,

and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream,

and you shall suck and be carried on the hip;

and you shall be played with on the knees.

13 As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you,

and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

Yahweh’s Final Judgment

14 And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice,

and your bones shall ⌊flourish⌋n like the grass,

and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known ⌊to⌋o his servants,

and he shall curse his enemies.