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ZECHARIAH
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- For who hath despised the day of small things?
- For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven;
- They are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. Then said he unto me,
- This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth:
- For every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it;
- And every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
- I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts,
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