44. 16.

I will desolate and swallow up together. I will make waste mountains and hills and dry up all their herb; I will make the rivers islands and will dry up their pools; I will lead the blind by a way they knew not; I will make darkness light before them and the crooked places straight. Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see (Isaiah 42:14-16, 18). Of the desolation and afterwards of the enlightenment in Divine truths.

Fear not, for I am with thee; I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the end of the earth; everyone that is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf that have ears (Isaiah 43:5-8). Concerning the New Church of the Lord after the redemption.

Behold I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert; the wild beasts of the field shall honor Me, the dragons and the owls, for I have given waters in the wilderness, rivers in the desert to give drink to My people, My chosen (Isaiah 43:19-20). Concerning the New Church after the completion of the redemption.

He will say to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited, and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof, saying to Jerusalem, Be thou built; and to the temple, Be thy foundation laid (Isaiah 44:26-28).

(Thy destroyers, and thy devastators shall go forth from thee. For as for thy waste and thy desolate places, they that swallow thee up shall be far away (Isaiah 49:17, 19).)

These two things have befallen thee, devastation and breaking; thy sons have fainted, they have lain at the head of all the streets (Isaiah 51:19-20).

Jehovah will console all the waste places of Zion, so that He maketh her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah, joy and gladness shall be found therein, confession and the voice of singing (Isaiah 51:3).

The heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, but My salvation shall be for ever, and My righteousness shall not be broken (Isaiah 51:6). Behold I will set thy stones with antimony, and lay thy foundations in sapphires. I will make thy suns of rubies, and thy gates of the stones of carbuncle, and all thy border of pleasant stones: all thy sons shall be taught of Jehovah, great [multa] shall be the peace of thy sons. In justice shalt thou be established (Isaiah 54:11-14). Concerning the New Church of the Lord: almost as the New Jerusalem after the redemption is it described in Revelation such as it would be. This is treated of in the preceding verses 5-8.

Thus said Jehovah, Keep ye judgment and do justice, for My salvation is near to come and My justice to be revealed (Isaiah 56:1). Concerning the coming of the Lord.