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Zechariah 12:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

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If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.

The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.

In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;

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.

This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.

In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.




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