24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: “O My people, who dwell in Zion, (A)do not be afraid of the Assyrian. He shall strike you with a rod and lift up his staff against you, in the manner of (B)Egypt.

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22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the [a]general assembly and church of (A)the firstborn (B)who are registered in heaven, to God (C)the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men (D)made perfect, 24 to Jesus (E)the Mediator of the new covenant, and to (F)the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things (G)than that of Abel.

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  1. Hebrews 12:23 festal gathering

To [a]console those who mourn in Zion,
(A)To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
(B)The planting of the Lord, (C)that He may be glorified.”

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  1. Isaiah 61:3 Lit. appoint

And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

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13 (A)I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off;
My salvation (B)shall not [a]linger.
And I will place (C)salvation in Zion,
For Israel My glory.

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  1. Isaiah 46:13 delay

33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria:

‘He shall not come into this city,
Nor shoot an arrow there,
Nor come before it with shield,
Nor build a siege mound against it.
34 By the way that he came,
By the same shall he return;
And he shall not come into this city,’
Says the Lord.
35 ‘For I will (A)defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and for My servant (B)David’s sake.’ ”

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22 this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him:

“The virgin, the daughter of Zion,
Has despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem
Has shaken her head behind your back!

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Say to those who are fearful-hearted,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Behold, your God will come with (A)vengeance,
With the recompense of God;
He will come and (B)save you.”

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14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites:
“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring (A)fire?
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?”
15 He who (B)walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
He who despises the gain of oppressions,
Who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes,
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed,
And (C)shuts his eyes from seeing evil:
16 He will dwell on [a]high;
His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks;
Bread will be given him,
His water will be sure.

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  1. Isaiah 33:16 Lit. heights

19 For the people (A)shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem;
You shall (B)weep no more.
He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry;
When He hears it, He will (C)answer you.

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(A)Has He struck [a]Israel as He struck those who struck him?
Or has He been slain according to the slaughter of those who were slain by Him?

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  1. Isaiah 27:7 Lit. him

29 “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia,
(A)Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper,
(B)And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.

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(A)Cry out and shout, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great is (B)the Holy One of Israel in your midst!”

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Arrogant Assyria Also Judged

“Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

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For You have broken the yoke of his burden
And the staff of his shoulder,
The rod of his oppressor,
As in the day of (A)Midian.

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12 “Do not say, ‘A conspiracy,’
Concerning all that this people call a conspiracy,
Nor be afraid of their [a]threats, nor be [b]troubled.
13 The Lord of hosts, Him you shall hallow;
Let Him be your fear,
And let Him be your dread.

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  1. Isaiah 8:12 Lit. fear or terror
  2. Isaiah 8:12 Lit. in dread

And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem (A)will be called holy—everyone who is (B)recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

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And of Zion it will be said,
“This one and that one were born in her;
And the Most High Himself shall establish her.”
The Lord will record,
When He (A)registers the peoples:
“This one was born there.” Selah

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“Your (A)right hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power;
Your right hand, O Lord, has dashed the enemy in pieces.
And in the greatness of Your (B)excellence
You have overthrown those who rose against You;
You sent forth (C)Your wrath;
It (D)consumed them (E)like stubble.
And (F)with the blast of Your nostrils
The waters were gathered together;
(G)The floods stood upright like a heap;
The depths [a]congealed in the heart of the sea.
(H)The enemy said, ‘I will pursue,
I will overtake,
I will (I)divide the spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied on them.
I will draw my sword,
My hand shall destroy them.’
10 You blew with Your wind,
The sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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  1. Exodus 15:8 became firm

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and (A)made the sea into dry land, and the waters were (B)divided. 22 So (C)the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were (D)a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

24 Now it came to pass, in the morning (E)watch, that (F)the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He [a]troubled the army of the Egyptians. 25 And He [b]took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord (G)fights for them against the Egyptians.”

26 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.” 27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea (H)returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord (I)overthrew[c] the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 Then (J)the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. 29 But (K)the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

30 So the Lord (L)saved[d] Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel (M)saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 Thus Israel saw the great [e]work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and (N)believed the Lord and His servant Moses.

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  1. Exodus 14:24 confused
  2. Exodus 14:25 Sam., LXX, Syr. bound
  3. Exodus 14:27 Lit. shook off
  4. Exodus 14:30 delivered
  5. Exodus 14:31 Lit. hand with which the Lord worked

So the (A)Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

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14 Also the (A)officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were (B)beaten and were asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before?”

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10 (A)come, let us (B)deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them (C)to afflict them with their (D)burdens. And they built for Pharaoh (E)supply cities, Pithom (F)and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel. 13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel (G)serve with [a]rigor. 14 And they (H)made their lives bitter with hard bondage—(I)in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.

15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the (J)Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah; 16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a (K)son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

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  1. Exodus 1:13 harshness

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