Isaiah 66:8-20

Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her sons. “Will I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it? ” says the LORD; “or will I who deliver, close the womb? ” says your God. Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her.  Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her — so that you may nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breast and drink deeply and delight yourselves from her glorious breasts. For this is what the LORD says: I will make peace flow to her like a river,  and the wealth  of nations like a flood;  you will nurse and be carried on her hip  and bounced on her lap. As a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you,  and you will be comforted in Jerusalem. You will see, you will rejoice, and you  will flourish like grass;  then the LORD’s power will be revealed to his servants, but he will show his wrath against his enemies. Look, the LORD will come with fire   — his chariots are like the whirlwind   — to execute his anger with fury and his rebuke with flames of fire. For the LORD will execute judgment on all humanity  with his fiery sword, and many will be slain by the  LORD. “Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves  following their leader,  eating meat from pigs, vermin,  and rats, will perish together.” This is the  LORD’s declaration. “Knowing  their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages;  they will come and see my glory. I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations — to Tarshish, Put,  Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan,  and the coasts and islands far away — who have not heard about me or seen my glory. And they will proclaim my glory among the nations.  They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem,”  says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.