Zechariah 1Zechariah 2Zechariah 3Revelation 17Zechariah 1
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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:
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And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.
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Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.
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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?
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But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
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On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
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I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.
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Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.
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And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.
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And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.
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Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?
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And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.
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And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.
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And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.
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So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.
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And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.
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And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.
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And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.
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And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.
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Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.
Zechariah 2
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And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.
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And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.
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And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,
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Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.
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For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.
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Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.
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Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.
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For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.
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For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me.
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Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.
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And a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and will become my people and I will be living among you, and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.
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And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.
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Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.
Zechariah 3
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And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.
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And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?
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Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
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And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes
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And let them put a clean head-dress on his head. So they put a clean head-dress on his head, clothing him with clean robes: and to him he said, See, I have taken your sin away from you.
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And the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and said,
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These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.
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Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.
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For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua on one stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of that land in one day.
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In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.
Revelation 17
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And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters
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With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
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And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,
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And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires
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And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.
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And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.
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And the angel said to me, Why were you surprised? I will make clear to you the secret of the woman, and of the beast on which she is seated, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
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The beast which you saw was, and is not and is about to come up out of the great deep, and to go into destruction. And those who are on the earth, whose names have not been put in the book of life from the first, will be full of wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and still will be.
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Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman is seated:
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And they are seven kings the five have come to an end, the one is, the other has not come and when he comes, he will have to go on for a little time.
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And the beast which was, and is not, is himself the eighth, and is of the seven and he goes into destruction.
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And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which still have been given no kingdom but they are given authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
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These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
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These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.
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And he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the evil woman is seated, are peoples, and armies, and nations and languages.
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And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will be turned against the evil woman, and will make her waste and uncovered, and will take her flesh for food, and will have her burned with fire.
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Because God has put it in their hearts to do his purpose, and to be of one mind, giving their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God have effect and are complete.
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And the woman whom you saw is the great town, which is ruling over the kings of the earth.
