Zechariah 7Zechariah 8Revelation 19.1-10Zechariah 7
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And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.
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Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
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And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
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Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying
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Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
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And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
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Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?
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And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:
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Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
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But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing
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And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
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And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
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But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
Zechariah 8
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And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,
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These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.
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This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.
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And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country
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And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.
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For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.
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But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.
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For I will let the seed of peace be planted the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.
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And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong.
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For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:
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So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.
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These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour and let your judging give peace in your towns.
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Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
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And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings so be lovers of good faith and of peace.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when peoples and those living in great towns come,
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And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.
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And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
Revelation 19
1-10
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After these things there came to my ears a sound like the voice of a great band of people in heaven, saying, Praise to the Lord salvation and glory and power be to our God:
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For true and upright are his decisions for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.
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And again they said, Praise to the Lord. And her smoke went up for ever and ever.
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And the four and twenty rulers and the four beasts went down on their faces and gave worship to God who was seated on the high seat, saying, Even so, praise to the Lord.
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And a voice came from the high seat, saying, Give praise to our God, all you his servants, small and great, in whom is the fear of him.
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And there came to my ears the voice of a great army, like the sound of waters, and the sound of loud thunders, saying, Praise to the Lord: for the Lord our God, Ruler of all, is King.
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Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready.
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And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.
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And he said to me, Put in the book, Happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.
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And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
