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11 It is the same when I give my word to people.
    It will not return to me without any result.
No! My word does what I want it to do.
    What I promise to do will certainly happen.’

12 You will leave that foreign land with joy!
    You will travel home with peace in your minds.
The mountains and the hills will sing with joy
    as you travel past.
The trees in the fields will clap their hands together!
13 Where thorn bushes have been growing,
    pine trees will grow instead.
Myrtle bushes will grow where there are weeds now.
Those things will show everyone that the Lord is great.
    It will be a sign to people for ever.

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