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For thus says the Lord of hosts:[a]

In just a little while,
    I will shake the heavens and the earth,(A)
    the sea and the dry land.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:6–9 These verses emphasize that the total fulfillment of God’s promises to Israel is on the horizon. Such an eschatological event, which will shake the nations (v. 6; cf. v. 21), finds an echo not only in the political revolts in the Persian empire in 521 but also in the formative events of Israel’s history (Ex 19:18; Jgs 5:4; Ps 68:8–9) when God intervened on behalf of the Israelites. The bringing of treasures of all the nations (v. 7) to Jerusalem recalls the visionary passages of Isaiah of the pilgrimage of all nations to Jerusalem (Is 2:2–4; 60:6–9).

21 Speak to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah:

I will shake the heavens and the earth;

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