As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
Zechariah 9:11 - Revised Standard Version As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As for you also, because of and for the sake of the [covenant of the Lord with His people, which was sealed with sprinkled] covenant blood, I have released and sent forth your imprisoned people out of the waterless pit. [Gen. 37:24; Exod. 24:4-8; Heb. 9:16.] American Standard Version (1901) As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water. Common English Bible Moreover, by the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit. Catholic Public Domain Version You, likewise, by the blood of your testimony, have sent forth your prisoners from the pit, in which there is no water. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou also by the blood of thy testament hast sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water. |
As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you.”
And as for you, if you walk before me, as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,
to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may see the light of life.
O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, restored me to life from among those gone down to the Pit.
He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
For the Lord hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.
But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
saying to the prisoners, ‘Come forth,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’ They shall feed along the ways, on all bare heights shall be their pasture;
He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the Pit, neither shall his bread fail.
And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mire, and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be hereafter, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be.
for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.’
And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.’
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered? If the worshipers had once been cleansed, they would no longer have any consciousness of sin.
How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the man who has spurned the Son of God, and profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while.