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Earth Travels (56:0) Go to Babylon (Iraq) (56:1) Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go [even] to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. (Micah 4:10) (56:2) see [Bahá'u'lláh spent 10 years as an exile in Iraq] (56:3) Go from Fortress to River: (56:4) [In] that day [also] he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and [from] the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and [from] mountain to mountain. (Micah 7:12) (56:5) see [After 9 years within the Prison walls, of Akka, Bahá'u'lláh was at last permitted to leave the fortress and go out to the river in the Garden of Ridvan] (56:6) Dwell in midst of Carmel: (56:7) Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily [in] the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed [in] Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. (Micah 7:14) (56:8) see It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, [and] the excellency of our God. (Isaiah 35:2) (56:9) see [Bahá'u'lláh sometimes pitched His tent and dwelled on Mt. Carmel (js)] (56:10) Be taken from Prison/judged: (56:11) He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. (Isaiah 53:8) (56:12) see [Bahá'u'lláh was severely judged in the Prison of Akka where He spent 24 years as a Prisoner] (56:13) Travel to Valley of Achor: (56:14) And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. (Isaiah 65:10) (56:15) see And I will give her vineyards from thence, and the Valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. (Hosea 2:15) (56:16) see [The Fortress of Akka is located in the Valley of Achor]
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