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Zechariah 1:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So the angel who was speaking with me said, ‘Proclaim: The Lord of Armies says: I am extremely jealous  for Jerusalem and Zion.

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Then the Lord became jealous for his land  and spared his people.


‘Proclaim further: This is what the Lord of Armies says: My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will once more comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’


I asked, ‘What are these, my lord? ’ The angel who was talking to me replied, ‘I will show you what they are.’


A voice was saying, ‘Cry out! ’ Another said,  ‘What should I cry out? ’ ‘All humanity is grass, and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.


‘Comfort, comfort my people,’ says your God.


The Lord replied with kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.


The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is fierce in   wrath. The Lord takes vengeance against his foes; he is furious with his enemies.


How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!


Look down from heaven and see from your lofty home #– #holy and beautiful. Where is your zeal and your might? Your yearning  and your compassion are withheld from me.


He put on righteousness as body armour, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.


The Lord advances like a warrior; he stirs up his zeal like a soldier. He shouts, he roars aloud, he prevails over his enemies.


And Hezekiah had asked, ‘What is the sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple? ’


The dominion will be vast, and its prosperity will never end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from now on and for ever. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.


The angel who was speaking with me then returned and roused me as one awakened out of sleep.


For a remnant  will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.”


‘Speak tenderly to   Jerusalem, and announce to her that her time of hard service is over, her iniquity  has been pardoned, and she has received from the  Lord’s hand double for all her sins.’


‘ “This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in my burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom,  who took  my land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt  so that its pastureland became  plunder.





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