7. “Before the birth pains even begin,Jerusalem gives birth to a son.
8. Who has ever seen anything as strange as this?Who ever heard of such a thing?Has a nation ever been born in a single day?Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment?But by the time Jerusalem’s birth pains begin,her children will be born.
9. Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birthand then not deliver it?” asks the lord.“No! I would never keep this nation from being born,”says your God.
10. “Rejoice with Jerusalem!Be glad with her, all you who love herand all you who mourn for her.
11. Drink deeply of her gloryeven as an infant drinks at its mother’s comforting breasts.”