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11 Jerusalem will take care of you like a mother. She will give you all that you need, like a mother that feeds her baby with milk. The great blessing that comes from her full breasts will make you very happy.

12 The Lord says,

‘Look! I will give peace to Jerusalem,
    like a great river.
Riches from other nations will pour into the city,
    like a stream that is full of water.
Jerusalem will take care of you like a mother that feeds her baby.
    She will carry you in her arms,
    and she will hold you on her knees.
13 I will comfort you,
    as a mother comforts her child.
As you live in Jerusalem,
    you will be happy again.’

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11 For you will nurse(A) and be satisfied
    at her comforting breasts;(B)
you will drink deeply
    and delight in her overflowing abundance.”(C)

12 For this is what the Lord says:

“I will extend peace(D) to her like a river,(E)
    and the wealth(F) of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried(G) on her arm
    and dandled on her knees.
13 As a mother comforts her child,(H)
    so will I comfort(I) you;
    and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

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