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11 It’ll be like that for those the Eternal One ransomed from captivity
    to return to Zion, Jerusalem. And they’ll come singing with joy.
Overwhelming, never-ending joy will crown their heads with happiness and delight
    while desperation and depression melt away.

12 Eternal One: I am the One who comforts you and gives you peace.
        So why are you afraid of human beings?
    The children of men are only grass; they’ll wither and die.

13     Have you forgotten Me, the One who made you and the whole world,
        who stretched out the skies and made sure the earth’s foundations?
    Yet you constantly worry about others—how they hate and might harm you.
        But their anger counts for nothing.

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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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