Category: Zechariah
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Zechariah 14:10-21
NRSV [10] The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. [11] And…
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Zechariah 14:1-9
NRSV [1] See, a day is coming for the LORD, when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your midst. [2] For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses looted and the women raped; half the city shall go into exile,…
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Zechariah 13:7-9
NRSV [7] “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, Against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against my little ones. [8] In the whole land, say the LORD, Two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, And one-third…
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Zechariach 13:1-6
NRSV [1] On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. [2] On that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no…
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Zechariah 12:10-14
NRSV [10] And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps…
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Zechariah 12:6-9
NRSV [6] On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot on a pile of wood, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem. [7]…
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Zechariah 12:1-5
NRSV [1] An Oracle: The word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus says the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within: [2] See I am about about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding peoples, it will be against Judah also in…
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Zechariah 11:15-17
NRSV [15] The LORD said to me: Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. [16] For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones,…
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Zechariah 11:7-14
NRSV [7] So, on behalf of the sheep merchants, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favor, the other I named Unity, and I tended to the sheep. [8] In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them,…
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Zechariah 11:4-6
NRSV [4] Thus said the LORD my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. [5] Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, “Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich”; and their own shepherds have no pity on them. [6] For I will…
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