1 This is what the Lord says:
2 I have made all these things.
3 Whoever kills a bull is like someone who kills a person.
4 So I will choose harsh treatment for them
5 Listen to the Lord’s word, all who tremble at his word.
6 Listen to the uproar from the city.
7 Before a woman goes into labor, she gives birth.
8 Who has heard of such a thing?
9 “Do I bring a mother to the moment of birth
10 All who love Jerusalem, be happy and rejoice with her.
11 You will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts.
12 This is what the Lord says:
13 As a mother comforts her child,
14 When you see it, your heart will rejoice
15 The Lord will come with fire
16 The Lord will judge with fire,
17 People make themselves holy
18 Because of their actions and their thoughts,
19 I will set up a sign among them
20 They will bring all your relatives
21 “I will make some of them priests and Levites,” declares the Lord.
22 “The new heaven and earth that I am about to make
23 From one month to the next and from one week to the next
24 Then they will go out