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Zechariah 10:3

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The Lord says, “I am angry with those foreigners who rule my people, and I am going to punish them. The people of Judah are mine, and I, the Lord Almighty, will take care of them. They will be my powerful war-horses.

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At each blast of the trumpet they snort; they can smell a battle before they get near, and they hear the officers shouting commands.

They believed, and when they heard that the Lord had come to them and had seen how they were being treated cruelly, they bowed down and worshiped.

You can get horses ready for battle, but it is the Lord who gives victory.

You, my love, excite men as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots.

But the Lord says, “When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride.”

A time is coming when the Lord will punish the powers above and the rulers of the earth.

I answered, “Our leaders are stupid; they do not ask the Lord for guidance. This is why they have failed, and our people have been scattered.

So the Lord Almighty said, “I will punish them! Their young men will be killed in war; their children will die of starvation.

After that I will punish Babylonia and its king for their sin. I will destroy that country and leave it in ruins forever.

Cry, you leaders, you shepherds of my people, cry out loud! Mourn and roll in the dust. The time has come for you to be slaughtered, and you will be butchered like rams.

“My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.

“I, the Sovereign Lord, tell you that I myself will look for my sheep and take care of them

in the same way as shepherds take care of their sheep that were scattered and are brought together again. I will bring them back from all the places where they were scattered on that dark, disastrous day.

“Mortal man,” he said, “denounce the rulers of Israel. Prophesy to them, and tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord, say to them: You are doomed, you shepherds of Israel! You take care of yourselves, but never tend the sheep.

By deceit the king will win the support of those who have already abandoned their religion, but those who follow God will fight back.

“On that day of slaughter,” says the Lord, “I will punish the officials, the king's sons, and all who practice foreign customs.

The people of Judah who survive will occupy your land. They will pasture their flocks there and sleep in the houses of Ashkelon. The Lord their God will be with them and make them prosper again.

That worthless shepherd is doomed! He has abandoned his flock. War will totally destroy his power. His arm will wither, and his right eye will go blind.”

“Let us praise the Lord, the God of Israel! He has come to the help of his people and has set them free.

Your conduct among the heathen should be so good that when they accuse you of being evildoers, they will have to recognize your good deeds and so praise God on the Day of his coming.

Some time later Naomi heard that the Lord had blessed his people by giving them good crops; so she got ready to leave Moab with her daughters-in-law.




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