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13 When you need help,
    you cry to those false gods that you have gathered around you.
    Let them help you!
But I tell you, the wind will blow them all away.
    A puff of wind will blow them all away.
But the one who depends on me
    will get the land I promised
    and enjoy my holy mountain.[a]

The Lord Will Save His People

14 Clear the road! Clear the road!
    Make the way clear for my people!

15 God is high and lifted up.
    He lives forever.
    His name is holy.
He says, “I live in a high and holy place,
    but I also live with people who are humble and sorry for their sins.
I will give new life to those who are humble in spirit.
    I will give new life to those who are sorry for their sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:13 holy mountain Mount Zion, one of the mountains Jerusalem was built on.

13 When you cry out(A) for help,
    let your collection of idols save(B) you!
The wind will carry all of them off,
    a mere breath will blow(C) them away.
But whoever takes refuge(D) in me
    will inherit the land(E)
    and possess my holy mountain.”(F)

Comfort for the Contrite

14 And it will be said:

“Build up, build up, prepare the road!(G)
    Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”(H)
15 For this is what the high and exalted(I) One says—
    he who lives forever,(J) whose name is holy:
“I live in a high(K) and holy place,
    but also with the one who is contrite(L) and lowly in spirit,(M)
to revive the spirit of the lowly
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.(N)

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