1Yahweh also said this:
2I [MTY] have created everything;
3You have enjoyed continually doing the things that you want to do:
4When I called out to you,
5But you people who tremble when you hear what Yahweh says,
6At that time, you will listen to the noise in the city.
7No one [RHQ] ever heard that a woman gave birth to a baby
8Certainly no one [RHQ] ever heard about such a thing happening,
9Women certainly do not [RHQ] bring infants to the time when they are ready to be born and then do not allow them to be born.
10You people in [APO] Jerusalem, rejoice!
11You people in Jerusalem will have everything that you need
12Yahweh has promised,
13I will comfort you people in Jerusalem like [MET] mothers comfort their children.”
14When you see those things happen,
15Yahweh will come down with flames of fire,
16It is as though [MET] Yahweh has a big sword,
17Yahweh says, “Some of you people purify/bathe yourselves and then go to a garden to worship your gods. You eat the meat of pigs and lizards and mice, and other things that I have forbidden you to eat. So I will get rid of you for doing that.
18I know all the evil things that you think and do. It is now time for me to gather together the people who live in all nations and who speak all languages, and to show them that I am very great.
19I will put a mark on them, and those whom I have spared will go to various distant countries: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal, Javan, and to distant islands. I will send them to proclaim to nations that have never heard about me that I am very great and glorious.
20Then they will bring back here your relatives who have been ◄exiled/forced to go to other countries►, to be like [SIM] an offering to me. They will come on horses, in chariots, on mules, and on camels. They will come to Zion, my sacred hill in Jerusalem. That will be like [SIM] the offerings that my Israeli people used to bring in the correct manner to the temple.
21I solemnly promise that I will appoint some of them to be priests, and others to do other work in my temple. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.
22I also promise that just like the new heaven and the new earth will last forever, you will always have descendants, and you [MTY] will always be honored.
23At every festival to celebrate the Sabbath each week and the new moon each month, everyone will come and worship me. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.
24Then they will go out of Jerusalem and look at the corpses of those who rebelled against me. The maggots in those corpses will never die, the fire will never stop burning them, and everyone who sees their corpses will detest them.”