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Exhortation to Good Works

15 ‘Mother, embrace your children; bring them up with gladness, as does a dove; strengthen their feet, because I have chosen you, says the Lord. ¹⁶And I will raise up the dead from their places, and bring them out from their tombs, because I recognize my name in them. ¹⁷Do not fear, mother of children, for I have chosen you, says the Lord. ¹⁸I will send you help, my servants Isaiah and Jeremiah. According to their counsel I have consecrated and prepared for you twelve trees loaded with various fruits, ¹⁹and the same number of springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains on which roses and lilies grow; by these I will fill your children with joy.

20 ‘Guard the rights of the widow, secure justice for the ward, give to the needy, defend the orphan, clothe the naked, ²¹care for the injured and the weak, do not ridicule the lame, protect the maimed, and let the blind have a vision of my splendour. ²²Protect the old and the young within your walls. ²³When you find any who are dead, commit them to the grave and mark it,^* and I will give you the first place in my resurrection. ²⁴Pause and be quiet, my people, because your rest will come.