Zechariah 9Zechariah 10Zechariah 11Revelation 19.11-21Zechariah 9
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A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's,
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As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.
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And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.
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See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea and she will be burned up with fire.
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Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.
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And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.
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And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.
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And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.
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Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome gentle and seated on an ass, on a young ass.
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And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
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And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
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And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much
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For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.
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And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.
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The Lord of armies will be a cover for them and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.
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And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.
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For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
Zechariah 10
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Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.
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For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
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My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.
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From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler
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Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.
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And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.
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And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine and their children will see it with joy their hearts will be glad in the Lord.
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With the sound of the pipe I will get them together for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.
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Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back.
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And I will make them come back out of the land of Egypt, and will get them together out of Assyria and I will take them into the land of Gilead, and it will not be wide enough for them.
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And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.
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And their strength will be in the Lord and their pride will be in his name, says the Lord.
Zechariah 11
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Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.
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Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.
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The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.
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This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death
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Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
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For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.
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So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands and I took care of the flock.
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And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
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And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate if any is cut off, let it be cut off and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.
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And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.
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And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.
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And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.
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And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.
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Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.
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And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.
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For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.
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A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
Revelation 19
11-21
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And the heaven was open and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True and he is judging and making war in righteousness.
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And his eyes are a flame of fire, and crowns are on his head and he has a name in writing, of which no man has knowledge but himself.
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And he is clothed in a robe washed with blood: and his name is The Word of God.
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And the armies which are in heaven went after him on white horses, clothed in delicate linen, white and clean.
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And out of his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which he overcomes the nations: and he has rule over them with a rod of iron: and he is crushing with his feet the grapes of the strong wrath of God the Ruler of all.
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And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
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And I saw an angel taking his place in the sun and he was crying with a loud voice, saying to all the birds in flight in the heavens, Come together to the great feast of God
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So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.
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And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, come together to make war against him who was seated on the horse and against his army.
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And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
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And the rest were put to death with the sword of him who was on the horse, even the sword which came out of his mouth: and all the birds were made full with their flesh.
