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11 So[a] the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return,
    and they shall come to Zion with singing,
        and everlasting joy shall be on their heads.[b]
Joy and gladness shall appear;[c]
    sorrow and sighing shall flee away!
12 “I, I am he who comforts you;
    who are you that[d] you are afraid of man? He dies!
    And of the son of humankind? He is sacrificed[e] as grass!
13 And you have forgotten Yahweh, your maker,
    who stretched out the heavens,
    and founded the earth.
And you tremble continually, all day,
    because of the wrath of the oppressor
    when he takes aim[f] to destroy.
But[g] where is the wrath of the oppressor?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 51:11 Or “And”
  2. Isaiah 51:11 Hebrew “head”
  3. Isaiah 51:11 Literally “reach”
  4. Isaiah 51:12 Or “and”
  5. Isaiah 51:12 Literally “given”
  6. Isaiah 51:13 Literally “sets up”
  7. Isaiah 51:13 Or “And”