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Fall Asleep to the Bible Book of Zechariah Holy Bible Audio by Abide Meditation - Abide Meditation App p2 · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: The prophet Zechariah Chapter one. In the eighth month of
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  Speaker 1: the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, the son
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  Speaker 1: of Edo. The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: tell the people, this is what the Lord Almighty says.
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  Speaker 1: Return to me, declares the Lord Almighty, And I will
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  Speaker 1: return to you, says the Lord Almighty. Do not be
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  Speaker 1: like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord Almighty says. Turn from your evil
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  Speaker 1: ways and your evil practices. But they would not listen
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  Speaker 1: or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. Where are
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  Speaker 1: your ancestors now? And the prophets do they live forever?
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  Speaker 1: But did not my words and my decrees, which I
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  Speaker 1: commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors. Then they
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  Speaker 1: repented and said, the Lord Almighty has done to us
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  Speaker 1: what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined
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  Speaker 1: to do. On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month,
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  Speaker 1: the month of Shabbat, in the second year of Darius,
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah
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  Speaker 1: son of Berechiah, the son of Edo. During the night,
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  Speaker 1: I had a vision, and there before me was a
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  Speaker 1: man mounted on a red horse. He was standing among
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  Speaker 1: the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown,
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  Speaker 1: and white horses. I asked, what are these, my Lord?
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  Speaker 1: The angel who was talking with me answered, I will
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  Speaker 1: show you what they are. Then the man standing among
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  Speaker 1: the myrtle trees explained, they are the ones the Lord
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  Speaker 1: has sent to go throughout the earth. And they reported
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  Speaker 1: to the Angel of the Lord, who was standing among
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  Speaker 1: the myrtle trees, we have gone throughout the earth and
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  Speaker 1: found the whole world at rest and in peace. Then
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  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord said, Lord Almighty, how long
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  Speaker 1: will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns
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  Speaker 1: of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the
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  Speaker 1: angel who talked with me. Then the angel who was
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  Speaker 1: speaking to me said, proclaim this word. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty says. I am very jealous for Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: and Zion, and I am very angry with the nations
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  Speaker 1: that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but
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  Speaker 1: they went too far with the punishment. Therefore, this is
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord says. I will return to Jerusalem with mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and there my house will be rebuilt, and the measuring
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  Speaker 1: line will be stretched out over Jerusalem, declares the Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: Proclaim further, this is what the Lord Almighty says. My
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  Speaker 1: towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will
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  Speaker 1: again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem. Then I looked up,
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  Speaker 1: and there before me were four horns. I asked the
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  Speaker 1: angel who was speaking to me, what are these? He
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  Speaker 1: answered me, these are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel,
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  Speaker 1: and Jerusalem. Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. I asked,
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  Speaker 1: what are these coming to do? He answered, these are
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  Speaker 1: the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could
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  Speaker 1: raise their head. But the craftsmen have come to terrify
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  Speaker 1: them and throw down these horns of the nations who
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  Speaker 1: lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to
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  Speaker 1: scatter its people. Zechariah too. Then I looked up, and
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  Speaker 1: there before me was a man with a measuring line
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  Speaker 1: in his hand. I asked, where are you going? He
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  Speaker 1: answered me to measure Jerusalem to find out how wide
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  Speaker 1: and how long it is. While the angel who was
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  Speaker 1: speaking to me was leaving, another angel came to meet
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  Speaker 1: him and said to him, run, tell that young man.
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem will be a city thout walls because of the
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  Speaker 1: great number of people and animals in it. And I
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  Speaker 1: myself will be a wall of fire around it, declares
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and I will be its glory within. Come, Come,
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  Speaker 1: flee from the land of the north, declares the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: For I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord. Come, Zion, Escape you who live in
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  Speaker 1: daughter Babylon. For this is what the Lord Almighty says.
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  Speaker 1: After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations
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  Speaker 1: that have plundered you. For whoever touches you touches the
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  Speaker 1: apple of his eye. I will surely raise my hand
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  Speaker 1: against them, so that their slaves will plunder them. Then
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  Speaker 1: you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.
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  Speaker 1: Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion, for I am coming,
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  Speaker 1: and I will live among you, declares the Lord. Many
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  Speaker 1: nations will be joined with the Lord in that day
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  Speaker 1: and will become my people. I will live among you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will know that the Lord Lord Almighty has
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  Speaker 1: sent me to you. The Lord will inherit Judah as
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  Speaker 1: his portion in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because he has
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  Speaker 1: roused himself from his holy dwelling Zechariah three. Then he
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  Speaker 1: showed me Joshua, the high Priest, standing before the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side.
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  Speaker 1: To accuse him. The Lord said to Satan, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: rebuke you. Satan, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you.
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  Speaker 1: Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes. As he stood
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  Speaker 1: before the Angel. The Angel said to those who were
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  Speaker 1: standing before him, take off his filthy clothes. Then he
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  Speaker 1: said to Joshua, see, I have taken away your sin,
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  Speaker 1: and I will put fine garments on you. Then I said,
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  Speaker 1: put a clean turban on his head. So they put
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  Speaker 1: a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while
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  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord stood by the Angel of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord gave this charge to Joshua. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty says. If you will walk in obedience
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  Speaker 1: to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern
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  Speaker 1: my house and have charge of my courts, and I
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  Speaker 1: will give you a place among these standing here. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: high Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you,
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  Speaker 1: who are men symbolic of things to come. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to bring my servant the branch. See the stone
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  Speaker 1: I have set in front of Joshua. There are seven
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  Speaker 1: eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an
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  Speaker 1: inscription on it, says the Lord Almighty, and I will
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  Speaker 1: remove the sin of this land in a single day.
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  Speaker 1: In that day, each of you will invite your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: to sit under your vine and fig tree, declares the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty. Zechariah. Iov. Then the angel who talked with
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  Speaker 1: me returned and woke me up, like some one awakened
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  Speaker 1: from sleep. He asked me, what do you see? I answered,
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  Speaker 1: I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at
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  Speaker 1: the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels
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  Speaker 1: to the lamps. Also, there are two olive trees by it,
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  Speaker 1: one on the right of the bowl and the other
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  Speaker 1: on its left. I asked the angel who talked with me,
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  Speaker 1: what are these? My lord? He answered, do you not
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  Speaker 1: know what these are? No, my lord, I replied, So
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  Speaker 1: he said to me. This is the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord too. Serubbable, not by might nor by power, but
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  Speaker 1: by my spirit, says the Lord Almighty. What are you,
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  Speaker 1: mighty mountain? Before Zerubbable, you will become level ground. Then
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  Speaker 1: he will bring out the capstone. Two shouts of God,
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  Speaker 1: bless it, God, bless it. Then the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord came to me. The hands of Zerubabel have laid
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of this temple. His hands will also complete it.
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  Speaker 1: Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent
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  Speaker 1: me to you who dares despise the day of small things,
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  Speaker 1: since the seven eyes of the Lord that range throughout
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  Speaker 1: the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone
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  Speaker 1: in the hand of Zerubabel. Then I asked the Angel
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  Speaker 1: what are these two olive trees on the right and
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  Speaker 1: the left of the lamp stand? Again, I asked him
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  Speaker 1: what are these two olive branches beside the two gold
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  Speaker 1: pipes that pour out golden oil. He replied, do you
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  Speaker 1: not know what these are? No, my Lord, I said so,
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  Speaker 1: He said, these are the two who are anointed to
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  Speaker 1: serve the Lord of all the earth. Zachariah five. I
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  Speaker 1: looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.
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  Speaker 1: He asked me, what do you see. I answered, I
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  Speaker 1: see a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.
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  Speaker 1: And he said to me, this is the curse that
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  Speaker 1: is going out over the whole land. For according to
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  Speaker 1: what it says on one side, every thief will be banished,
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  Speaker 1: and according to what it says on the other, every
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  Speaker 1: one who swears falsely will be banished. The Lord Almighty declares,
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  Speaker 1: I will send it out, and it will enter the
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  Speaker 1: house of the thief, and the house of any one
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  Speaker 1: who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in
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  Speaker 1: that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and
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  Speaker 1: its stones. Then the angel who was speaking to me
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  Speaker 1: came forward and said to me, look up and see
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  Speaker 1: what is appearing. I asked, what is it? He replied,
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  Speaker 1: it is a basket, and he added this is the
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  Speaker 1: iniquity of the people throughout the land. Then the cover
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  Speaker 1: of lead w was raised, and there in the basket
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  Speaker 1: sat a woman. He said, this is wickedness, and he
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  Speaker 1: pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead
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  Speaker 1: cover down on it. Then I looked up and there
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  Speaker 1: before me were two women with the wind in their wings.
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  Speaker 1: They had wings like those of a stork, and they
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  Speaker 1: lifted up the basket between heaven and Earth. Where are
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  Speaker 1: they taking the basket, I asked the angel who was
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  Speaker 1: speaking to me. He replied, to the country of Babylonia
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  Speaker 1: to build a house for it. When the house is ready,
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  Speaker 1: the basket will be set there in its place. Zechariah six.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up again, and there before me were four
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  Speaker 1: chariots coming out from between two mountains, mountains of bronze.
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  Speaker 1: The first chariot had red horses, the second black, the
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  Speaker 1: third white, and the fourth dappled, all of them powerful.
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  Speaker 1: I asked the angel who was speaking to me, What
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  Speaker 1: are these, my lord? The angel answered me, these are
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  Speaker 1: the four spirits of Heaven going out from standing in
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord of the whole world. The
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  Speaker 1: one with the black horses is going toward the north country,
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  Speaker 1: the one with the white horses toward the west, and
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  Speaker 1: the one with thee dappled horses toward the south. When
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  Speaker 1: the powerful horses went out, they were straining to go
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  Speaker 1: throughout the earth, and he said, go throughout the earth.
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  Speaker 1: So they went throughout the earth. Then he called to me,
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  Speaker 1: look those going toward the north country. Have given my
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  Speaker 1: spirit a rest in the land of the north. The
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord came to me. Take silver and
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  Speaker 1: gold from the exiles held I to Baijah and Jedaiah,
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  Speaker 1: who have arrived from Babylon. Go the same day to
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  Speaker 1: the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. Take the silver
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  Speaker 1: and gold and make a crown and set it on
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  Speaker 1: the head of the high priest Joshua son of Jozdac.
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  Speaker 1: Tell him, this is what the Lord Almighty says. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the man whose name is Branch, and he will
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  Speaker 1: branch out from his place and build the temple of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. It is he who will build the temple
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, and he will be clothed with majesty
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  Speaker 1: and will sit and rule on his throne. And he
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  Speaker 1: will be a priest on his throne, and there will
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  Speaker 1: be harmony between the two. The crown will be given
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  Speaker 1: to Heldai, to Bijah, Jediah and Hen son of Zephaniah,
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  Speaker 1: as a memorial in the Temple of the Lord. Those
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  Speaker 1: who are far away will come and help to build
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  Speaker 1: the temple of the Lord. And you will know that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. This will
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  Speaker 1: happen if you diligently obey the Lord your God, Zechariah. Seventh,
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord came to Zechariah. On the fourth day of
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  Speaker 1: the ninth month, the month of Kislev. The people of
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  Speaker 1: Bethel had sent Shirezer and Ragamelek together with their men,
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  Speaker 1: to entreat the Lord by asking the priest of the
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  Speaker 1: House of the Lord Almighty and the Prophets, should I
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  Speaker 1: mourn and fast in the fifth month as I have
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  Speaker 1: done for so many years. Then the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty came to me, Ask all the people of
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  Speaker 1: the land and the priests, when you fasted and mourned
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  Speaker 1: in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years,
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  Speaker 1: was it really for me that you fasted? And when
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  Speaker 1: you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting
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  Speaker 1: for yourselves? Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: through the earlier prophets. When Jerusalem and its surrounding towns
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  Speaker 1: were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the
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  Speaker 1: western foothills were settled, and the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: came again to Zechariah, this is what the Lord Almighty said,
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  Speaker 1: Administer true justice, show mercy and compassion to one another.
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  Speaker 1: Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner
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  Speaker 1: or the poor, do not plot evil against each other.
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  Speaker 1: But they refused to pay attention. Stubbornly, they turned their
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  Speaker 1: backs and covered their ears. They made their hearts as
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  Speaker 1: hard as flint, and would not listen to the law
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  Speaker 1: or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent
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  Speaker 1: by his spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Almighty was very angry. When I called, they did not listen.
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  Speaker 1: So when they called, I would not listen, says the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty. I scattered them with a whirlwind among all
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  Speaker 1: the nations where they were strangers. The land they left
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  Speaker 1: behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it.
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  Speaker 1: This is how they made the pleasant land desolate. Zechariah
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  Speaker 1: Ate the wood of the Lord Almighty came to me.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Lord Almighty says. I am very
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  Speaker 1: jealous for Zion. I am burning with jealousy for her.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Lord says. I will return to
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  Speaker 1: Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called
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  Speaker 1: the Faithful City, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty
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  Speaker 1: will be called the Holy Mountain. This is what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says. Once again, men and women of ripe
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  Speaker 1: old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each
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  Speaker 1: of them with cain in hand. Because of their age.
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  Speaker 1: The city streets will be filled with boys and girls
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  Speaker 1: playing there. This is what the Lord Almighty says. It
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  Speaker 1: may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at
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  Speaker 1: that time, but will it seem marvelous to me? Declares
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty. This is what the Lord Almighty says.
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  Speaker 1: I will save my people from the countries of the
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  Speaker 1: East and the West. I will bring them back to
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  Speaker 1: live in Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I
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  Speaker 1: will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Lord Almighty says. Now hear these words,
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  Speaker 1: let your hands be strong, so that the temple may
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  Speaker 1: be built. This is also what the prophets said, who
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  Speaker 1: were present when the foundation was laid for the House
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord Almightmighty. Before that time, there were no
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  Speaker 1: wages for people or hire for animals. No one could
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  Speaker 1: go about their business safely because of their enemies, since
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  Speaker 1: I had turned everyone against their neighbor. But now I
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  Speaker 1: will not deal with the remnant of this people as
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  Speaker 1: I did in the past, declares the Lord Almighty. The
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  Speaker 1: seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit,
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  Speaker 1: the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will
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  Speaker 1: drop their due. I will give all these things as
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  Speaker 1: an inheritance to the remnant of this people. Just as you,
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  Speaker 1: Judah and Israel have been a curse among the nations,
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  Speaker 1: so I will save you, and you will be a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Lord Almighty says. Just as I
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  Speaker 1: had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no
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  Speaker 1: pity when your ancestors angered me, says the Lord Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: So now I have determined to do good again to
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid. These are the
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  Speaker 1: things you are to do. Speak the truth to each other,
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  Speaker 1: and render true and sound a judgment in your courts.
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  Speaker 1: Do not plot evil against each other, and do not
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  Speaker 1: love to swear falsely. I hate all this, declares the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: The word of the Lord Almighty came to me. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord Almighty says. The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh,
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  Speaker 1: and tenth months will become joyful and glad. Occasions and
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  Speaker 1: happy festivals for Judah. Therefore, love, truth and peace. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the Lord Almighty says. Many peoples and the
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  Speaker 1: inhabitants of many cities will yet come, and the inhabitants
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  Speaker 1: of one city will go to another and say, let
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  Speaker 1: us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty. I myself am going, And many peoples
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  Speaker 1: and powerful nations will come too Jerusalem to seek the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty and to entreat him. This is what the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says. In those days, ten people from all
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  Speaker 1: languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew
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  Speaker 1: by the hem of his robe, and say, let us
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  Speaker 1: go with you, because we have heard that God is
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  Speaker 1: with you. Zechari nine a prophecy. The word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is against the land of Hadraak and will come
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  Speaker 1: to rest on Damascus. For the eyes of all people
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  Speaker 1: and all the tribes of Israel are on the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and on Hamath too, which borders on it, and on
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  Speaker 1: Tire and Sidon. Though they are very skillful, Tyre has
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  Speaker 1: built herself a stronghold. She has heaped up silver like
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  Speaker 1: dust and gold like the dirt of the streets. But
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  Speaker 1: the Lord will take away her possessions and destroy her
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  Speaker 1: power on the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.
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  Speaker 1: Ascalen will see it in fear. Gaza will writhe in agony,
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  Speaker 1: and Ekron too, for her hope will wither. Gaza will
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  Speaker 1: lose her king, and a Nascalen will be deserted. A
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  Speaker 1: mongrel people will occupy Ascidid, and I will put an
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  Speaker 1: end to the pride of the Philistines. I will take
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  Speaker 1: the blood from their mouths, the forbidden food from between
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  Speaker 1: their teeth. Those who are left will belong to our
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  Speaker 1: God and become a clan in Judah, and Ekron will
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  Speaker 1: be like the Jebusites. But I will encamp at my
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  Speaker 1: temple to guard it against marauding forces. Never again will
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  Speaker 1: an oppressor overrun my people. For now I am keeping watch.
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  Speaker 1: Rejoice greatly, Daughtuzhan, shout, daughter Jerusalem. See your king comesil,
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  Speaker 1: righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey on
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  Speaker 1: a coat the foal of a donkey. I will take
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  Speaker 1: away the chariots from Ethrium and the war horses from Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to sea, and from the river to the ends of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. As for you, because of the blood of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope.
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  Speaker 1: Even now I announce that I will restore twice as
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: much to you. I will bend Judah, as I bend
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  Speaker 1: my bow and fill it with ephrium. I will rouse
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  Speaker 1: your son's Zion against your son's Greece, and make you
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  Speaker 1: like a warrior's sword. Then the Lord will appear over them.
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  Speaker 1: His arrow will flash like lightning. The sovereign Lord will
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: sound the trumpet. He will march in the storms of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the south, and the Lord Almighty will shield them. They
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: will destroy and overcome with sling stones. They will drink
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  Speaker 1: and roar as with wine. They will be full like
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: a bowl used for sprinkling the corners of the altar.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord there God will save his people on that day,
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  Speaker 1: as a shepherd saves his flock. They will sparkle in
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  Speaker 1: his land like jewels in a crown. How attractive and
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: beautiful they will be. Grain will make the young men
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: thrive and new wine the young women Zechariah ten ask
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the Lord for rain in the springtime It is the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Lord who sends the thunder storms. He gives showers of
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: rain to all people, and plants of the field to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: every one. The idols speak deceitfully, diviner see visions that lie.
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  Speaker 1: They tell dreams that are false. They give comfort in vain.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd. My anger burns against the shepherds, and I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: will punish the leaders. For the Lord Almighty will care
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: like a proud horse in battle. From Judah will come
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the corner stone, from him, the tent peg, from him,
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  Speaker 1: the battle bow, from him, every ruler. Together they will
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  Speaker 1: be like warriors in battle, trampling their enemy into the
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  Speaker 1: mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen
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  Speaker 1: to shame. I will strengthen Judah and save the tribes
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion
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  Speaker 1: on them. They will be as though I had not
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  Speaker 1: rejected them, for I am the Lord their God, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I will answer them. The Ephriamites will become like warriors,
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  Speaker 1: and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: children will see it and be joyful. Their hearts will
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: rejoice in the Lord. I will signal for them and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: gather them in. Surely I will redeem them. They will
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: be as numerous as before. Though I scattered them among
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the peoples. Yet in distant lands they will remember me.
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  Speaker 1: They and their children will survive, and they will return.
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  Speaker 1: I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them
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  Speaker 1: from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: and there will not be room enough for them. They
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: will pass through the Sea of Trouble. The surging sea
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: will be subdued, and all the depths of the Nile
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  Speaker 1: will dry up. A serious pride will be brought down,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and Egypt's scepter will pass away. I will strengthen them
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord, and in his name they will live securely,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord Zechariah eleven. Open your doors, Lebanon, so
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that fire may devour your cedars. Wail you, Juniper, for
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the cedar has fallen. The stately trees are ruined, whale
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: oaks of Bashan. The dense forest has been cut down.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the wail of the shepherds. Their rich pastures
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  Speaker 1: are destroyed. Listen to the roar of the lions. The
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  Speaker 1: lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, my God says. Shepherd the flock marked for
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  Speaker 1: slaughter their byers. Slaughter them, go unpunished. Those who seldom
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: say praise the Lord. I am rich their own shepherds.
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  Speaker 1: Do not spare them. For I will no longer have
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: pity on the people of the land, declares the Lord.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I will give every one into the hands of their
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I will not rescue any one from their hands. So
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: one favor in the other union, and I shepherded the flock.
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  Speaker 1: In one month, I got rid of the three shepherds.
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  Speaker 1: The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them,
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  Speaker 1: and said, I will not be your shepherd. Let the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: dying die and the perishing parish. Let those who are
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: left eat one another's flesh. Then I took my staff
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: called favor and broke it, revoking the covenant I made
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: with all the nations. It was revoked on that day,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and so the oppressed of the flock, who were watching me,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: knew it was the word of the Lord. I told them,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: if you think it best, give me my pay, but
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: if not, keep it. So they paid me thirty pieces
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  Speaker 1: of silver, and the Lord said to me, throw it
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to the potter, the handsome price at which they valued me.
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  Speaker 1: So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: them to the potter at the house of the Lord.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Then I broke my second staff called union, breaking the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: family bond between Judah and Israel. Then the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to me, take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd,
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  Speaker 1: for I am going to raise up a shepherd over
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  Speaker 1: the land who will not care for the lost, or
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  Speaker 1: seek the young, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy,
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  Speaker 1: but will eat the meat of the choice sheep, tearing
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: off their hoofs Woe to the worthless shepherd who deserts
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  Speaker 1: the flock. May the sword strike his arm and his
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: right eye, May his arm be completely withered, his right
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  Speaker 1: eye totally blinded. Zechariah twelve, a prophecy the word of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord who stretches out the heavens,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: who lays the foundation of the earth and who forms
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the human spirit within a person, declares, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: On that day, when all the nations of the earth
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: rock for all the nations. All who try to move
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: it will injure themselves. On that day, I will strike
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: every horse with panic and its rider with madness. Declares
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the Lord. I will keep a watchful eye over Judah,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: but I will blind all the horses of the nations.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the people of Jerusalem are strong because the Lord Almighty
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: is their god. On that day, I will make the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: clans of Judah like a fire pot in a wood pile,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the surrounding people's right and left, but Jerusalem will remain
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: intact in her place. The Lord will save the dwellings
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of Judah first, so that the honor of the House
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: of David and of Jerusalem's inhabitants may not be greater
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: than that of Judah. On that day, the Lord will
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: among them will be like David, and the House of
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: David will be like God, like the Angel of the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Lord going before them. On that day, I will set
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem, and
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I will pour out on the House of David and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.
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  Speaker 1: They will look on me, the one they have pierced,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and they will mourn him as one mourns for an
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: only child, and grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: for a first born son. On that day, the weeping
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: hadad Riman in the plain of Megido. The land will
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: mourn each clan by itself with their wives by themselves,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the clan of the House of David and their wives,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the clan of the House of Nathan and their wives,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the clan of the House of Levi and their wives,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the clan of Shimiai and their wives, and all the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: rest of the clans and their wives. Zechariah thirteen. On
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that day a fountain will be opened to the house
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: from sin and impurity. On that day, I will banish
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the names of the idols from the land, and they
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: will be remembered no more, declares the Lord Almighty. I
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: from the land. And if any one still prophesies, their
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: father and mother to whom they were born will say
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: to them, you must die because you have told lies
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: in the Lord's name. Then their own parent will stab
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the one who prophesies. On that day, every prophet will
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: on a prophet's garment of hair in order to deceive.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Each will say, I am not a prophet. I am
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a farmer. The land has been my livelihood since my youth.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: If some one asks, what are these wounds on your body,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: they will answer the wounds I was given at the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: house of my friends. Awake sword against my shepherd, against
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the man who is close to me, declares the Lord Almighty.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I will turn my hand against the little ones in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the whole land, declares the Lord. Two thirds will be
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: struck down and perish, Yet one third will be left
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: in it. This third I will put into the fire.
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  Speaker 1: I will refine them like silver and test them like gold.
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  Speaker 1: They will call on my name, and I will answer them.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I will say they are my people, and they will say,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the Lord is our God. Zekorah fourteen. A day of
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the Lord is coming Jerusalem, when your possessions will be
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: plundered and divided up within your very walls. I will
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: The city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: women raped. Half of the city will go into exile,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: but the rest of the people will not be taken
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: from the city. Then the Lord will go out and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: fight against those nations. As he fights on a day
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of battle. On that day, his feet will stand on
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem, and the Mount
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: of Olives will be split in two from east to west,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: north and half moving south. You will flee by my
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of Buzah, King of Judah. Then the Lord, my God
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: will come and all the holy ones with him. On
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: It will be a unique day, a day known only
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to the Lord, with no distinction between day and night.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: When evening comes, there will be light. On that day,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: east to the Dead Sea, and half of it west
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to the Mediterranean Sea. In summer and in winter. The
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: day there will be one Lord, and his name the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: only name. The whole land from Ghibba to Riman south
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem will become like the Arabah. Jerusalem will be
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the side
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of the First Gate to the Corner gate, and from
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the Tower of Hannanel to the Royal wine presses, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: will remain in its place. It will be inhabited. Never
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure. This
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: is the plague with which the Lord will strike all
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: while they are still standing on their feet. Their eyes
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: in their mouths. On that day, people will be stricken
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: other by the hand and attack one another. Judah too
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: nations will be collected, great quantities of gold and silver
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and clothing. A similar plague will strike the horses and mules,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the animals and donkeys, and all the animals in those caps.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: If any of the peoples of the earth do not
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: not go up and take part, they will have no rain.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: on the nations that do not go up to celebrate
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: not go up to celebrate the festival of Tabernacles. On
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: that day, wholly to the Lord will be inscribed on
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the Lord's house will be like the sacred bulls in
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: front of the altar. Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: will be wholly to the Lord Almighty, And all who
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: cook in them. And on that day there will no
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: The prophet Zechariah chapter one, in the eighth month of
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, the son
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: of Edo. The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. Therefore,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: tell the people, this is what the Lord Almighty says.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Return to me, declares the Lord Almighty. And I will
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: return to you, says the Lord Almighty. Do not be
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed, this
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: is what the Lord Almighty says. Turn from your evil
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: ways and your evil practices. But they would not listen
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: or pay attention to me. Declares the Lord, where are
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: your ancestors now? And the prophets do they live forever?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: But did not my words and my decrees which I
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors. Then they
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: repented and said, the Lord Almighty has done to us
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: what our ways and practices deserve, just as he determined
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to do. On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the month of Shabbat, in the second year of Darius,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: son of Berachiah, the son of Edo. During the night,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I had a vision, and there before me was a
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: man mounted on a red horse. He was standing among
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him were red, brown,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: and white horses. I asked, what are these, my Lord?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: The angel who was talking with me, answered, I will
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: show you what they are. Then the man standing among
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the myrtle trees explained, they are the ones the Lord
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: sent to go throughout the earth. And they reported to
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord, who was standing among the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: myrtle trees, we have gone throughout the earth and found
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the whole world at rest and in peace. Then the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Angel of the Lord said, Lord Almighty, how long will
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: which you have been angry with these seventy years. So
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: who talked with me. Then the Angel who was speaking
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: to me said, proclaim this word. This is what the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says. I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I was only a little angry, but they went too
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: far with the punishment. Therefore, this is what the Lord says.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: house will be rebuilt, and the measuring line will be
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: stretched out over Jerusalem, declares the Lord Almighty. Proclaim further,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: this is what the Lord Almighty says. My towns will
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Zion and choose Jerusalem. Then I looked up, and there
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: before me were four horns. I asked the angel who
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: was speaking to me, what are these? He answered me,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: these are the horns that scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. I asked, what
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: are these coming to do? He answered, these are the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: their head. But the craftsmen have come to terrify them
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: its people. Zechariah too. Then I looked up, and there
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: before me was a man with a measuring line in
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: his hand. Asked, where are you going? He answered me
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to measure Jerusalem to find out how wide and how
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: long it is. While the angel who was speaking to
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: me was leaving, another angel came to meet him and
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: said to him, run, tell that young man. Jerusalem will
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: be a city without walls because of the great number
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: of people and animals in it. And I myself will
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: be a wall of fire around it, declares the Lord,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and I will be its glory within. Come, Come, flee
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: from the land of the North, declares the Lord. For
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I have scattered you to the four winds of heaven,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: declares the Lord. Come Zion, escape you who live in
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: daughter Babylon. For this is what the Lord Almighty says.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: that have plundered you. For whoever touches you touches the
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: apple of his eye. I will surely raise my hand
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: against them, so that their slaves will plunder them. Then
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Shout and be glad, daughter Sion, for I am coming,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and I will live among you, declares the Lord. Many
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: nations will be joined with the Lord in that day
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and will become my people. I will live among you,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: me to you. The Lord will inherit Judah as his
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: portion in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Be still before the Lord, all mankind, because he has
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: roused himself from his holy dwelling Zechariah three. Then he
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  Speaker 1: showed me Joshua, the high Priest, standing before the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side.
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  Speaker 1: To accuse him. The Lord said to Satan, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: rebuke you, Satan. The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you.
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  Speaker 1: Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes. As he stood
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  Speaker 1: before the Angel. The Angel said to those who were
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  Speaker 1: standing before him. Take off his filthy clothes. Then he
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  Speaker 1: said to Joshua, see, I have taken away your sin,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: and I will put fine garments on you. Then I said,
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  Speaker 1: put a clean turban on his head. So they put
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  Speaker 1: a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while
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  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord stood by the Angel of
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: the Lord gave this charge to Joshua. This is what
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty says. If you will walk in obedience
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  Speaker 1: to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern
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  Speaker 1: my house and have charge of my courts, and I
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  Speaker 1: will give you a place among these standing here. Listen,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: high Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you,
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  Speaker 1: who are men symbolic of things to come. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to bring my servant the branch. See the I
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  Speaker 1: have set in front of Joshua. There are seven eyes
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  Speaker 1: on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription
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  Speaker 1: on it, says the Lord Almighty. And I will remove
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  Speaker 1: the sin of this land in a single day. In
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: that day, each of you will invite your neighbor to
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  Speaker 1: sit under your vine and fig tree, declares the Lord Almighty. Zechariah. Iov.
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  Speaker 1: Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: me up like some one awakened from sleep. He asked me,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: what do you see? I answered, I see a solid
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps. Also,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: there are two olive trees by it, one on the
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  Speaker 1: right of the bowl and the other on its left.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I asked the angel who talked with me, what are these?
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  Speaker 1: My lord? He answered, do you not know what these are? No,
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  Speaker 1: my Lord, I replied, So he said to me, this
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  Speaker 1: is the word of the Lord to Zerubable, not by
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty, What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubable, you
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  Speaker 1: will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone.
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  Speaker 1: Two shouts of God, bless it, God, bless it. Then
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord came to me. The hands
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: of Zerubable have laid the foundation of this temple. His
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: hands will also complete it. Then you will know that
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty has sent me to you, who dares
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: despise the day of small things, Since the seven eyes
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubabyl.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Then I asked the Angel, what are these two olive
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: trees on the right and the left of the lamp stand? Again,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I asked him, what are these two olive branches beside
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil. He replied,
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  Speaker 1: do you not know what these are? No, my Lord,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I said so, He said, these are the two who
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  Speaker 1: are anointed to serve the Lord of all the earth
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Zachariah five. I looked again, and there before me was
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: a flying scroll. He asked me, what do you see.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I answered, I see a flying scroll twenty cubits long
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: and ten cubits wide. And he said to me, this
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  Speaker 1: is the curse that is going out over the whole land.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: For according to what it says on one side, every
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  Speaker 1: thief will be banished, and according to what it says
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: on the other, every one who swears falsely will be banished.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: The Lord Almighty declares, I will send it out, and
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: it will enter the house of the thief and the
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: house of any one who swears falsely by my name.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: It will remain in that house and destroy it completely,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: both its timbers and its stones. Then the angel who
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: was speaking to me, came forward and said to me,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: look up and see what is appearing. I asked, what
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  Speaker 1: is it? He replied, it is a basket, and he added,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: this is the iniquity of the people throughout the land.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the basket sat a woman. He said, this is wickedness,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed
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  Speaker 1: its lead cover down on it. Then I looked up
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: and there before me were two women with the wind
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  Speaker 1: in their wings. They had wings like those of a stork,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: and they lifted up the basket between heaven and Earth.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Where are they taking the basket? I asked the angel
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: who was speaking to me. He replied, to the country
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  Speaker 1: of Babylonia to build a house for it. When the
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  Speaker 1: house is ready, the basket will be set there in
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: its place. Zechariah six. I looked up again, and there
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: before me were four chariots coming out from between queen
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: two mountains, mountains of bronze. The first chariot had red horses,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the second black, the third white, and the fourth dappled,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: all of them powerful. I asked the angel who was
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: speaking to me, what are these? My Lord? The Angel
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: answered me, these are the four spirits of heaven going
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: out from standing in the presence of the Lord of
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the whole world. The one with the black horses is
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  Speaker 1: going toward the north country, the one with the white
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: horses toward the west, and the one with thee dappled
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: horses toward the south. When the powerful horses went out,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: they were straining to go throughout the earth, and he said,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: go throughout the earth. So they went throughout the earth.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Then he called to me, look, those going toward the
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  Speaker 1: north country have given my spirit rest in the land
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: of the north. The wood of the Lord came to me.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Take silver and gold from the exiles held I to
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Baijah and Jedda Aiah who have arrived from Babylon. Go
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: the same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Take the silver and gold and make a crown and
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: set it on the head of the high priest Joshua
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: son of Josdac. Tell him this is what the Lord
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Almighty says. Here is the man whose name is the branch,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: and he will branch out from his place and build
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the temple of the Lord. It is he who will
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: build the Temple of the Lord, and he will be
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on his throne,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: and he will be a priest on his throne, and
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: there will be harmony between the two. The crown will
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: be given to Heldi, to Bijah Jediah and Hen son
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the Temple of the Lord.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Those who are far away will come and help to
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: build the temple of the Lord. And you will know
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. This
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: will happen if you diligently obey the Lord, your God God.
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  Speaker 1: Zechariah seventh, in the fourth year of King Darius, the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord came to Zechariah. On the fourth
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  Speaker 1: day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev. The
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  Speaker 1: people of Bethel had sent Shirezar and Regemmelek together with
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  Speaker 1: their men to entreat the Lord by asking the priests
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: of the House of the Lord Almighty and the prophets,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: should I mourn and fast in the fifth month as
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I have done for so many years. Then the word
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: of the Lord Almighty came to me. Ask all the
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: people of the land and the priests, when you fasted
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: past seventy years? Was it really for me that you fasted?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: And when you were eating and drinking, were you not
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: just feasting for yourselves? Are these not the words the
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets. When Jerusalem and its
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: and the western foothills were settled, the word of the
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Lord came again to Zechariah. This is what the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Almighty said, Administer true justice, show mercy and compassion to
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  Speaker 1: one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: each other. But they refused to pay attention. Stubbornly, they
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  Speaker 1: turned their backs and covered their ears. They made their
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: hearts as hard as flint, and would not listen to
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: had sent by his spirit through the earlier prophets. So
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty was very angry. When I called, they
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  Speaker 1: did not listen. So when they called, I would not listen,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: says the Lord Almighty. I scattered them with a whirlwind
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: they left behind them was so desolate that no one
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: land desolate. Zechariah Ate the wood of the Lord Almighty
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  Speaker 1: came to me. This is what the Lord Almighty says.
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  Speaker 1: I am very jealous for Zion. I am burning with
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: jealousy for her. This is what the Lord says. I
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  Speaker 1: will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain. This
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: is what the Lord Almighty says. Once again, men and
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: women of ripe old age will sit in the streets
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem, each of them with cain in hand because
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: of their age. The city streets will be filled with
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: boys and girls playing there. This is what the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Almighty says. It may seem marvelous to the remnant of
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: to me? Declares the Lord Almighty. This is what the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty says. I will save my people from the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: countries of the East and the West. I will bring
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: them back to live in Jerusalem. They will be my people,
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: and I will be faithful and righteous to them as
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: their God. This is what the Lord Almighty says. Now
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: hear these words, Let your hands be strong, so that
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: the temple may be built. This is also what the
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: prophets said, who were present when the foundation was laid
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: for the House of the Lord Almighty. Before that time,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: there were no wages for people or hire for animals.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: No one could go about their business safely because of
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: their enemies, since I had turned every one against their neighbor.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: But now I will not deal with the remnant of
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: this people as I did in the past, declares the
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Lord Almighty. The seed will grow well, the vine will
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  Speaker 1: yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the heavens will drop their due. I will give all
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Just as you, Judah and Israel have been a curse
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: among the nations. So I will save you, and you
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: will be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but let
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: your hands be strong. This is what the Lord Almighty says.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me, says
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty. So now I have determined to do
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: These are the things you are to do. Speak the
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: truth to each other, and render true and sound a
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: judgment in your courts. Do not plot evil against each other,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all, this,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: declares the Lord. The word of the Lord Almighty came
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: to me. This is what the Lord Almighty says. The
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: love truth and peace. This is what the Lord Almighty says.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: and the inhabitants of one city will go to another
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and say, let us go at once to entreat the
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: And many peoples and powerful nations will come too Jerusalem
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him. This
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: is what the Lord Almighty says. In those days, ten
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: people from all languages and nations will take firm hold
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: of one Jew by the hem of his robe, and say,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: let us go with you, because we have heard that
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: God is with you. Zecharia nine a prophecy. The word
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: of the Lord is against the land of Hadraak and
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: will come to rest on Damascus. For the eyes of
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: all people and all the tribes of Israel are on
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: the Lord, and on Hamath too, which borders on it,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and on Tire and Sidon. Though they are very skillful.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Tire has built herself a stronghold. She has heaped up
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: But the Lord will take away her possessions and destroy
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: her power on the sea, and she will be consumed
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: by fire. Ascalon will see it in fear. Gaza will
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: writhe in agony an Ekron too, for her hope will wither.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Gaza will lose her king, and Ascalon will be deserted.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: A mongrel. People will occupy Ascidid, and I will put
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: an end to the pride of the Philistines. I will
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: take the blood from their mouths, the forbidden food from
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: between their teeth. Those who are left will belong to
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: our God and become a clan in Judah, and Ekron
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: will be like the Jebusites. But I will encamp at
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: my temple to guard it against marauding forces. Never again
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: will an oppressor overrun my people. For now I am
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: keeping watch. Rejoice greatly, Daughteruzhan, shout, Daughter Jerusalem, see your
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: king conseil, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey,
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  Speaker 1: on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: take away the chariots from Ethrium and the war horses
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: from sea to sea, and from the river to the
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: ends of the earth. As for you, because of the
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: blood of my covenant with you, I will free your
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, you
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: prisoners of hope. Even now I announce that I will
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: restore twice as much to you. I will bend Judah,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephrium.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: I will rouse your son's Zion against your son's Greece,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and make you like a warrior's sword. Then the Lord
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: will appear over them. His arrow will flash like lightning.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: The sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet. He will march
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: in the storms of the South, and the Lord Almighty
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: will shield them. They will destroy and overcome with sling stones.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: They will drink and roar as with wine. They will
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: be full like a bull used for sprinkling the corners
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: of the altar. The Lord, their God, will save his
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: people on that day, as a shepherd saves his flock.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: How attractive and beautiful they will be. Grain will make
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the young men thrive and new wine. The young women
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: zechariah En ask the Lord for rain in the springtime.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: It is the Lord who sends the thunder storms. He
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: the field to everyone. The idols speak deceitfully, diviner, see
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: visions that lie. They tell dreams that are false. They
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: op pressed for lack of a shepherd. My anger burns
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders. For
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty will care for his flock, the people
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: of Judah, and make them like a proud horse in battle.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: From Judah will come the cornerstone from him, the tent
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: peg from him, the battle bow from him, every ruler. Together,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: they will be like warriors in battle, trampling their enemy
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: into the mud of the streets. They will fight because
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: the Lord is with them, and they will put the
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: enemy horsemen to shame. I will strengthen Judah and save
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: the tribes of Joseph. I will restore them because I
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: have compassion on them. They will be as though I
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: had not rejected them, for I am the Lord their God,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: and I will answer them. The Ephriamites will become like warriors,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: children will see it and be joyful. Their hearts will
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: rejoice in the Lord. I will signal for them and
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: gather them in. Surely I will redeem them. They will
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: be as numerous as before. Though I scattered them among
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: the peoples, Yet in distant lands they will remember me.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: They and their children will survive, and they will return.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: and they will not be room enough for them. They
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: will pass through the sea of Trouble. The surging sea
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: will be subdued, and all the depths of the Nile
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: will dry up, A serious pride will be brought down,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: and Egypt's scepter will pass away. I will strengthen them
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: in the Lord, and in his name they will live securely,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: declares the Lord Zechariah. Eleven. Open your doors, Lebanon, so
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: that fire may devour your cedars. Wail you, Juniper, for
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: the cedar has fallen. The stately trees are ruined, whil
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: oaks of Bashan. The dense forest has been cut down.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: Listen to the wail of the shepherds. Their rich pastures
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: are destroyed. Listen to the roar of the lions. The
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: lush thicket of the Jordan is ruined. This is what
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: the Lord, my God, says. Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who seldom
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: say praise the Lord. I am rich their own shepherds.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Do not spare them. For I will no longer have
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: pity on the people of the land, declares the Lord.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: I will give every one into the hands of their
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: I will not rescue any one from their hands. So
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter, particularly the oppressed
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: one Favor in the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: In one month, I got rid of the three shepherds.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: The flock detested me, and I grew weary them and said,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: and the perishing parish. Let those who are left eat
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: one another's flesh. Then I took my staff called favor
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: and broke it, revoking the covenant I made with all
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the nations. It was revoked on that day, and so
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: the oppressed of the flock, who were watching me, knew
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: it was the word of the Lord. I told them,
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  Speaker 1: if you think it best, give me my pay, but
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  Speaker 1: if not, keep it. So they paid me thirty pieces
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  Speaker 1: of silver, and the Lord said to me, throw it
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  Speaker 1: to the potter, the handsome price at which they valued me.
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  Speaker 1: So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw
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  Speaker 1: them to the potter at the house of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Then I broke my second staff called Union, breaking the
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  Speaker 1: family bond between Judah and Israel. Then the Lord said
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  Speaker 1: to me take again the equipment of a foolish shepherd
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  Speaker 1: for I am going to raise up a shepherd over
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  Speaker 1: the land who will not care for the loss, or
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  Speaker 1: seek the young, or heal the injured, or feed the healthy,
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  Speaker 1: but will eat the meat of the choice sheep, tearing
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  Speaker 1: off their hoofs Woe to the worthless shepherd who deserts
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  Speaker 1: the flock. May the sword strike his arm and his
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  Speaker 1: right eye. May his arm be completely withered, his right
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  Speaker 1: eye totally blinded. Zechariah twelve, a prophecy the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord concerning Israel, the Lord who stretches out the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms
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  Speaker 1: the human spirit within a person, declares, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding
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  Speaker 1: people's reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem
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  Speaker 1: on that day, when all the nations of the earth
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  Speaker 1: are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable
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  Speaker 1: rock for all the nations. All who try to move
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  Speaker 1: it will injure them. On that day, I will strike
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  Speaker 1: every horse with panic and its rider with madness, declares
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. I will keep a watchful eye over Judah,
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  Speaker 1: but I will blind all the horses of the nations.
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  Speaker 1: Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts,
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  Speaker 1: the people of Jerusalem are strong because the Lord Almighty
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  Speaker 1: is their God. On that day I will make the
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  Speaker 1: clans of Judah like a fire pot in a woodpile,
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  Speaker 1: like a flaming torch among sheeves. They will consume all
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  Speaker 1: the surrounding people's right and left, but Jerusalem will remain
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  Speaker 1: intact in her place. The Lord will save the dwellings
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  Speaker 1: of Judah first, so that the honor of the House
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  Speaker 1: of David and of Jerusalem's inhabitants may not be greater
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  Speaker 1: than that of Judah. On that day, the Lord will
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  Speaker 1: shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest
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  Speaker 1: among them will be like David, and the House of
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  Speaker 1: David will be like God, like the Angel of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord going before them. On that day, I will set
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  Speaker 1: out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem, and
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  Speaker 1: I will pour out on the House of David and
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  Speaker 1: the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.
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  Speaker 1: They will look on me, the one they have pierced,
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  Speaker 1: and they will mourn for him as one mourns for
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  Speaker 1: an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one
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  Speaker 1: grieves for a first born son. On that day, the
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  Speaker 1: weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping
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  Speaker 1: of hadad Riman in the plain of Megido. The land
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  Speaker 1: will mourn each clan by itself with their wives by themselves,
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  Speaker 1: the clan of the House of David and their wives,
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  Speaker 1: the clan of the House of Nathan and their wives,
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  Speaker 1: the clan of the House of Levi and their wives,
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  Speaker 1: the Clan of Shimii and their wives, and all the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the clans and their wives Zechariath thirteen. On
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  Speaker 1: that day a fountain will be opened to the House
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  Speaker 1: of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them
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  Speaker 1: from sin and impurity. On that day I will banish
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  Speaker 1: the names of the idols from the land, and they
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  Speaker 1: will be remembered no more, declares the Lord Almighty. I
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  Speaker 1: will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity
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  Speaker 1: from the land. And if anyone still prophesies, their father
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  Speaker 1: and mother to whom they were born will say to them,
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  Speaker 1: you must die because you have told lies in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's name. Then their own parent will stab the one
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  Speaker 1: who prophesies. On that day, every prophet will be ashamed
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  Speaker 1: of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a
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  Speaker 1: prophet's garment of hair in order to deceive. Each will say,
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  Speaker 1: I am not a prophet. I am a farmer. The
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  Speaker 1: land has been my livelihood since my youth. If someone asks,
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  Speaker 1: what are these wounds on your body, they will answer
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  Speaker 1: the wounds I was given at the house of my friends. Awake,
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  Speaker 1: sword against my shepherd. The man who is close to me,
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  Speaker 1: declares the Lord Almighty. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep
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  Speaker 1: will be scattered, and I will turn my hand against
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  Speaker 1: the little ones in the whole land, declares the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Two thirds will be struck down and perish, Yet one
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  Speaker 1: third will be left in it. This third I will
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  Speaker 1: put into the fire. I will refine them like silver
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  Speaker 1: and test them like gold. They will call on my name,
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  Speaker 1: and I will answer them. I will say they are
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  Speaker 1: my people, and they will say the Lord is our god.
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  Speaker 1: Zakorah fourteen. A day of the Lord is coming Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within
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  Speaker 1: your very walls. I will gather all the nations to
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem to fight against it. The city will be captured,
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  Speaker 1: the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the
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  Speaker 1: city will go into exile, but the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: people will not be taken from the city. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as
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  Speaker 1: he fights on a day of battle. On that day,
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  Speaker 1: his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives east
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  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split
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  Speaker 1: in two from east to west, forming a great valley,
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  Speaker 1: with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south.
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  Speaker 1: You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will
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  Speaker 1: extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from
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  Speaker 1: the earthquake in the days of Buzah, King of Judah.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord, my God will come and all the
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  Speaker 1: holy ones with him. On that day there will be
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  Speaker 1: neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. It will be a
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  Speaker 1: unique day, a day known only to the Lord, with
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  Speaker 1: no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there
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  Speaker 1: will be light. On that day, living water will flow
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  Speaker 1: out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead
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  Speaker 1: Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea.
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  Speaker 1: In summer and in winter, the Lord will be king
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  Speaker 1: over the whole earth. On that day there will be
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  Speaker 1: one Lord, and his name the only name the whole
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  Speaker 1: land from giver to Riman. South of Jerusalem will become
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  Speaker 1: like the Araba. But Jerusalem will be raised up high
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  Speaker 1: from the Benjamin Gate to the side of the First
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  Speaker 1: Gate to the corner gate, and from the Tower of
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  Speaker 1: Hannanel to the Royal wine presses, and will remain in
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  Speaker 1: its place. It will be inhabited. Never again will it
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure. This is the plague
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  Speaker 1: with which the Lord will strike all the nations that
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  Speaker 1: fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh will rot while they are
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  Speaker 1: still standing on their feet. Their eyes will rot in
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  Speaker 1: their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
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  Speaker 1: On that day, people will be stricken by the Lord
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  Speaker 1: with great panic. They will seize each other by the
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  Speaker 1: hand and attack one another. Judah too, who will fight
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  Speaker 1: at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will
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  Speaker 1: be collected, great quantities of gold and silver and clothing.
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  Speaker 1: A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the
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  Speaker 1: camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those caps.
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  Speaker 1: Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
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  Speaker 1: If any of the peoples of the earth do not
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  Speaker 1: go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do
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  Speaker 1: not go up and take part, they will have no rain.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts
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  Speaker 1: on the nations that do not go up to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: and the punishment of all the nations that do not
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  Speaker 1: go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. On that day,
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  Speaker 1: wholly to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells
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  Speaker 1: of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord's
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  Speaker 1: house will be like the sacred bulls in front of
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  Speaker 1: the altar. Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be
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  Speaker 1: holy to the Lord Almighty, And all who come to
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them.
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  Speaker 1: And on that day there will no longer be a
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  Speaker 1: Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty.