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Zechariah 9:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will camp at my house as a guard, against those who march back and forth, and no oppressor will march against them again, for now I have seen with my own eyes.

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and you will be established on a foundation of righteousness. You will be far from oppression, you will certainly not be afraid; you will be far from terror, it will certainly not come near you.


Violence will never again be heard of in your land; devastation and destruction will be gone from your borders. You will call your walls Salvation and your city gates Praise.


‘Wake up, wake up; put on your strength, Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no longer enter you.


They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant with joy because of the  Lord’s goodness, because of the grain, the new wine, the fresh oil, and because of the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like an irrigated garden, and they will no longer grow weak from hunger.


I will plant them on their land, and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them. The Lord your God has spoken.


I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel.’  This is the declaration of the Lord God.


For you will not leave in a hurry, and you will not have to take flight; because the Lord is going before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.


Like hovering birds, so the Lord of Armies will protect Jerusalem; by protecting it, he will rescue it; by passing over it, he will deliver it.


Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction  and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.’


So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing  them,


They came up across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the encampment of the saints, the beloved city.  Then fire came down from heaven  and consumed them.


I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.   ,


People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.


On that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem,  so that on that day the one who is weakest among them will be like David on that day, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord, before them.


This is the word the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon to defeat the land of Egypt:


About Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco, Egypt’s king,  which was defeated at Carchemish  on the River Euphrates by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in the fourth year of Judah’s King Jehoiakim son of Josiah:


On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city. Salvation is established as walls and ramparts.


Then the Lord will create  a cloud of smoke by day  and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,


During  Jehoiakim’s reign,  King Nebuchadnezzar  of Babylon  attacked.  Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, and then he turned and rebelled against him.


During his reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt  marched up to help the king of Assyria at the River Euphrates. King Josiah went to confront him, and at Megiddo  when Neco saw him he killed him.


Then the Lord said, ‘I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out  because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,


I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abhorrent things from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah and Ekron like the Jebusites.


I will defend this city and rescue it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.’


Don’t fear sudden danger or the ruin of the wicked when it comes,


On that day’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness.  I will keep a watchful eye on  the house of Judah but strike all the horses of the nations with blindness.





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