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¹⁰And the open plains will become sheepfolds for the flocks, and the valley of Achor will become a domicile for the herds, for my people who have sought me.

²It will spring up and blossom, and it will exult with rejoicing and praising. The glory of Lebanon has been given to it, with the beauty of Carmel and Sharon. These will see the glory of the Lord and the beauty of our God.

¹Bride: I am a flower of the open field and a lily of the steep valleys. ²Groom: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my loved one among the daughters. ³Bride to Chorus: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat beneath the shadow of the one whom I desired, and his fruit was sweet to my palate. ⁴He brought me into the storeroom of wine. He set charity in order within me. ⁵Prop me up with flowers. Close me in with apples. For I languish through love. ⁶His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

¹Bride: I am a flower of the open field and a lily of the steep valleys.

¹The desolate and impassable land will rejoice, and the place of solitude will exult, and it will flourish like the lily. ²It will spring up and blossom, and it will exult with rejoicing and praising. The glory of Lebanon has been given to it, with the beauty of Carmel and Sharon. These will see the glory of the Lord and the beauty of our God. ³Strengthen the lax hands, and confirm the weak knees! ⁴Say to the fainthearted: “Take courage and fear not! Behold, your God will bring the vindication of retribution. God himself will arrive to save you.” ⁵Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be cleared. ⁶Then the disabled will leap like a buck, and the tongue of the mute will be untied. For the waters have burst forth in the desert, and torrents in solitary places.

²⁹Now over the herds that were pastured in Sharon, Shitrai, a Sharonite, was in the first place; and over the oxen in the valleys, there was Shaphat, the son of Adlai.

¹⁶And they lived in Gilead, and in Bashan and its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as the borders.

⁹The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together.

³⁵And all who were living in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they were converted to the Lord.

¹The desolate and impassable land will rejoice, and the place of solitude will exult, and it will flourish like the lily.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

⁶Jesus said to him: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;

¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

¹The desolate and impassable land will rejoice, and the place of solitude will exult, and it will flourish like the lily. ²It will spring up and blossom, and it will exult with rejoicing and praising. The glory of Lebanon has been given to it, with the beauty of Carmel and Sharon. These will see the glory of the Lord and the beauty of our God.