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A voice, an uproar from the city!
    A voice from the temple!
        The voice of Yahweh paying back[a] his enemies!

Zion’s Delivery

Before she was in labor she gave birth;
    before labor pains[b] came to her, she gave birth to a son.
Who has heard anything like this?
    Who has seen anything like these things?
Can a land be born in one day?
    Or can a nation be born in a moment?

Yet when she was in labor, Zion indeed gave birth to her children.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:6 Literally “rewarding retribution to”
  2. Isaiah 66:7 Hebrew “pain”