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“The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.
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I asked, “What are these, my lord?” The angel who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”
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Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?”
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So the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
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and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure. I was only a little angry, but they went too far with the punishment.’
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“Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,’ declares the Lord Almighty.
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“Proclaim further: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘My towns will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
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A Man With a Measuring Line
Then I looked up, and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
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and said to him: “Run, tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of people and animals in it.
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And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will be its glory within.’
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“Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.
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The Gold Lampstand and the Two Olive Trees
Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep.
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He asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps.
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I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
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“What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”
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Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
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The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
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It is he who will build the temple of the Lord, and he will be clothed with majesty and will sit and rule on his throne. And he will be a priest on his throne. And there will be harmony between the two.’
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Those who are far away will come and help to build the temple of the Lord, and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the Lord your God.”
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The people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melek, together with their men, to entreat the Lord
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‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.’”
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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.”
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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each of them with cane in hand because of their age.
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The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”
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I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.”
