“And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.”
YHWH announces that the voice of weeping will no longer be heard, nor the voice of crying in Jerusalem, establishing that eschatological peace includes cessation of suffering. The specific mention that an infant will not die there but one living a hundred years will be young indicates not merely death-elimination but radical lifespan extension. The curse of Cain (wanderer) comes upon the wicked, establishing that the unfaithful's fate is exile and homelessness. This verse articulates positive and negative eschatological realities: the faithful experience eliminated suffering and extended life; the faithless experience permanent exile.
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