JOY Isaiah 51:3 Part 1 of 2

The LORD will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing. 

The LORD will surely comfort Zion 
Isaiah 40:1  Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Psalm 51:18  May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem.

and will look with compassion on all her ruins 
Isaiah 44:24-26  "This is what the LORD says--your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself, who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who overthrows the learning of the wise and turns it into nonsense, who carries out the words of his servants and fulfills the predictions of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited,' of the towns of Judah, 'They shall be rebuilt,' and of their ruins, 'I will restore them,' ..."
Isaiah 52:9  Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 61:4  They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.

he will make her deserts like Eden 
Genesis 2:8  Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

her wastelands like the garden of the LORD 
Isaiah 5:6  "I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it."
Isaiah 41:19-20  "I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it."

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