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11 so will my message be that goes out of my mouth—
    it won’t return to me empty.
Instead, it will accomplish what I desire,
    and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

12 “For you will go out in joy,
    and come back[a] with peace;
the mountains and the hills
    will burst into song before you,
        and all the trees in[b] the fields[c] will clap their hands.
13 Instead of thornbushes, pine trees will grow,
    and[d] instead of briers, myrtles will grow;
and they[e] will be a sign for the Lord,
    and an everlasting name[f] that will not be cut off.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 55:12 So 1QIsaa. MT reads and be led back cf. LXX
  2. Isaiah 55:12 Or of
  3. Isaiah 55:12 Or orchards
  4. Isaiah 55:13 So 1QIsaa MTmss; MT LXX lacks and
  5. Isaiah 55:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read it
  6. Isaiah 55:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read a name, an everlasting sign