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11 The people the Lord has freed will return.
    They will enter Jerusalem with joy.
    Their happiness will last forever.
They will have joy and gladness.
    All sadness and sorrow will be gone far away.

12 The Lord says, “I am the one who comforts you.
    So why should you be afraid of people, who die?
    Why should you fear people who die like the grass?
13 Have you forgotten that the Lord made you?
    He stretched out the skies.
    He made the earth.
Why are you always afraid
    of those angry people who trouble you?
    They want to destroy.
But where are those angry people now?

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11 Those the Lord has rescued(A) will return.
    They will enter Zion with singing;(B)
    everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy(C) will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.(D)

12 “I, even I, am he who comforts(E) you.
    Who are you that you fear(F) mere mortals,(G)
    human beings who are but grass,(H)
13 that you forget(I) the Lord your Maker,(J)
    who stretches out the heavens(K)
    and who lays the foundations of the earth,
that you live in constant terror(L) every day
    because of the wrath of the oppressor,
    who is bent on destruction?
For where is the wrath of the oppressor?(M)

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