22 Gather the old and the young within your walls. Watch over your infants. Let your servants and employees rejoice, and your whole community will have good morale.
23 When I find your dead, I will raise them. I will watch for signs, and I will give them the front seat at the resurrection I will bring about.
24 Wait a little; your rest will come.
25 Good nurse, nourish your children. Strengthen those whom you bore and make their feet steady,
26 because none of those whom I have given you will perish. I will require them from your number.
27 Give it your all! Strengthen them! Days of pressure and anguish will come; others will weep and be sad, but you will be happy and have plenty.
28 All the nations will be jealous of you, but they won’t be able to do anything against you, says the Lord.