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Zechariah 9:8

New American Bible - revised edition

I will encamp at my house, a garrison against invaders; No oppressor will overrun them again, for now I have seen their affliction.

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Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”

I will shield and save this city for my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”

In his time Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up toward the Euphrates River against the king of Assyria. King Josiah set out to meet him, but was slain at Megiddo at the first encounter.

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

This poor one cried out and the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him.

That he may defend the oppressed among the people, save the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.

But the Lord said: I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry against their taskmasters, so I know well what they are suffering.

Now indeed the outcry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen how the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Do not be afraid of sudden terror, of the ruin of the wicked when it comes;

On that day this song shall be sung in the land of Judah: “A strong city have we; he sets up victory as our walls and ramparts.

Like hovering birds, so the Lord of hosts shall shield Jerusalem, To shield and deliver, to spare and rescue.

Then will the Lord create, over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her place of assembly, A smoking cloud by day and a light of flaming fire by night.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion; Put on your glorious garments, Jerusalem, holy city. Never again shall the uncircumcised or the unclean enter you.

But not in hurried flight will you go out, nor leave in headlong haste, For the Lord goes before you, and your rear guard is the God of Israel.

In justice shall you be established, far from oppression, you shall not fear, from destruction, it cannot come near.

No longer shall violence be heard of in your land, or plunder and ruin within your borders. You shall call your walls “Salvation” and your gates “Praise.”

Shouting, they shall mount the heights of Zion, they shall come streaming to the Lord’s blessings: The grain, the wine, and the oil, flocks of sheep and cattle; They themselves shall be like watered gardens, never again neglected.

The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came to attack the land of Egypt:

Concerning Egypt. Against the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:

I will no longer hide my face from them once I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel—oracle of the Lord God.

I will plant them upon their own ground; never again shall they be plucked From the land I have given them— the Lord, your God, has spoken.

On that day—oracle of the Lord—I will strike every horse with fright, and its rider with madness. But over the house of Judah I will keep watch, while I strike blind all the horses of the peoples.

On that day the Lord will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the 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.

The city will be inhabited; never again will it be doomed. Jerusalem will dwell securely. The Fate of Jerusalem’s Foes.

and take from their mouths their bloody prey, their disgusting meat from between their teeth. They will become merely a remnant for our God, and will be like a clan in Judah; Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you to Egypt.’

They invaded the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.




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