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Zechariah 9:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Return to a fortress, O prisoners of hope; This very day, I announce I am restoring double to you.

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The Lord also restored the prosperity of Job, after he had prayed for his friends; the Lord even gave to Job twice as much as he had before.

They will be gathered together like prisoners into a pit; They will be shut up in a dungeon, and after many days they will be punished.

For it is not Sheol that gives you thanks, nor death that praises you; Neither do those who go down into the pit await your kindness.

Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service has ended, that her guilt is expiated, That she has received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

To say to the prisoners: Come out! To those in darkness: Show yourselves! Along the roadways they shall find pasture, on every barren height shall their pastures be.

Arise, shake off the dust, sit enthroned, Jerusalem; Loose the bonds from your neck, captive daughter Zion!

Because their shame was twofold and disgrace was proclaimed their portion, They will possess twofold in their own land; everlasting joy shall be theirs.

Hope of Israel, Lord, our savior in time of need! Why should you be a stranger in the land, like a traveler stopping only for a night?

Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”

O Hope of Israel, Lord! all who forsake you shall be put to shame; The rebels shall be enrolled in the netherworld; they have forsaken the Lord, source of living waters.

There is hope for your future—oracle of the Lord— your children shall return to their own territory.

Yes, a day will come when the watchmen call out on Mount Ephraim: “Come, let us go up to Zion, to the Lord, our God.”

Listen! the fugitives, the refugees from the land of Babylon: They announce in Zion the retribution of the Lord, our God.

The Lord has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the Lord, our God, has done.

He said to me: Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel! They are saying, “Our bones are dried up, our hope is lost, and we are cut off.”

I will punish her for the days of the Baals, for whom she burnt incense, When she decked herself out with her rings and her jewelry, and went after her lovers— but me she forgot—oracle of the Lord.

And you, O tower of the flock, hill of daughter Zion! To you it shall come: the former dominion shall be restored, the reign of daughter Jerusalem.

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, a refuge on the day of distress, Taking care of those who look to him for protection,

so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to hold fast to the hope that lies before us.

This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, which reaches into the interior behind the veil,




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