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Zechariah 12:7

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over Judah.

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If truly you exalt yourselves at my expense, and use my shame as an argument against me,

Put to shame and confound all who relish my misfortune. Clothe with shame and disgrace those who lord it over me.

Lord, it is for you that I wait; O Lord, my God, you respond.

treachery is in its midst; oppression and fraud never leave its streets.

The Lord of hosts has planned it, to disgrace the height of all beauty, to degrade all the honored of the earth.

Thus says the Lord: See! I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents, on his dwellings I will have compassion; A city shall be rebuilt upon its own ruins, a citadel restored where it should be.

On that day I will raise up the fallen hut of David; I will wall up its breaches, raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,

So it was broken on that day. The merchants of the flock, who were watching me, understood that this was the word of the Lord.

Then he said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, and not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

At that very moment he rejoiced [in] the holy Spirit and said, “I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

What occasion is there then for boasting? It is ruled out. On what principle, that of works? No, rather on the principle of faith.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”




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