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ZECHARIAH
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- Behold, thy King cometh unto thee:
- He is just, and having salvation;
- Lowly, and riding upon an ass,
- And upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
- And the horse from Jerusalem,
- And the battle bow shall be cut off:
- And he shall speak peace unto the heathen:
- And his dominion shall be from sea even to sea,
- And from the river even to the ends of the earth.
- As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant
- I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
- Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope:
- Even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
- When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
- And raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece,
- And made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
- And the Lord shall be seen over them,
- And his arrow shall go forth as the lightning:
- And the Lord God shall blow the trumpet,
- And shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
- The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour,
- And subdue with sling stones;
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