14 (A)‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that (B)I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:

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“For thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)‘Once more (it is a little while) (B)I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to (C)the [a]Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this [b]temple with (D)glory,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the Lord of hosts. (E)‘The glory of this latter [c]temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give (F)peace,’ says the Lord of hosts.”

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:7 Or desire of all nations
  2. Haggai 2:7 Lit. house
  3. Haggai 2:9 Lit. house

“Behold, (A)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and [a]prosper,
(B)And execute [b]judgment and righteousness in the [c]earth.

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  1. Jeremiah 23:5 act wisely
  2. Jeremiah 23:5 justice
  3. Jeremiah 23:5 land

20 (A)For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

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15 The Lord has taken away your judgments,
He has cast out your enemy.
(A)The King of Israel, the Lord, (B)is in your midst;
You shall [a]see disaster no more.

16 In that day (C)it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Do not fear;
Zion, (D)let not your hands be weak.
17 The Lord your God (E)in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
(F)He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”

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  1. Zephaniah 3:15 So with Heb. mss., LXX, Bg.; MT, Vg. fear

23 I will establish one (A)shepherd over them, and he shall feed them—(B)My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24 And (C)I, the Lord, will be their God, and My servant David (D)a prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken.

25 (E)“I will make a covenant of peace with them, and (F)cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they (G)will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

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10 For thus says the Lord: After (A)seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to (B)return to this place.

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A Reign of Righteousness

32 Behold, (A)a king will reign in righteousness,
And princes will rule with justice.
A man will be as a hiding place from the wind,
And (B)a [a]cover from the tempest,
As rivers of water in a dry place,
As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

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  1. Isaiah 32:2 shelter

13 (A)I will be his Father, and he shall be My son; and I will not take My mercy away from him, (B)as I took it from him who was before you. 14 And (C)I will establish him in My house and in My kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”

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10 (A)The [a]scepter shall not depart from Judah,
Nor (B)a lawgiver from between his feet,
(C)Until Shiloh comes;
(D)And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.

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  1. Genesis 49:10 A symbol of kingship

18 (A)In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, (B)because you have obeyed My voice.”

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32 And we declare to you glad tidings—(A)that promise which was made to the fathers. 33 God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm:

(B)‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.’

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Israel Will Be Restored

11 “On(A) that day I will raise up
The [a]tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And [b]repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;

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  1. Amos 9:11 Lit. booth; a figure of a deposed dynasty
  2. Amos 9:11 Lit. wall up its breaches

38 They shall be (A)My people, and I will be their God; 39 then I will (B)give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. 40 And (C)I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but (D)I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me. 41 Yes, (E)I will rejoice over them to do them good, and (F)I will [a]assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.’

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  1. Jeremiah 32:41 truly

A New Covenant

31 “Behold, the (A)days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that (B)I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, [a]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 (C)But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: (D)I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their [b]hearts; (E)and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for (F)they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For (G)I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

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  1. Jeremiah 31:32 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. and I turned away from them
  2. Jeremiah 31:33 Lit. inward parts

10 And (A)I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, (B)“See that you do not do that! I am your (C)fellow servant, and of your brethren (D)who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the (E)testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

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10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

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40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be (A)made perfect apart from us.

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24 for I tell you (A)that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.

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69 (A)And has raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of His servant David,
70 (B)As He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets,
Who have been (C)since the world began,

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The Coming Messenger

“Behold, (A)I send My messenger,
And he will (B)prepare the way before Me.
And the Lord, whom you seek,
Will suddenly come to His temple,
(C)Even the Messenger of the covenant,
In whom you delight.
Behold, (D)He is coming,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

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The Coming King(A)

“Rejoice (B)greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, (C)your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 I (D)will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The (E)battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be (F)‘from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.’

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The Coming Messiah

“But you, (A)Bethlehem (B)Ephrathah,
Though you are little (C)among the (D)thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be (E)Ruler in Israel,
(F)Whose goings forth are from of old,
From [a]everlasting.”

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 5:2 Lit. the days of eternity

25 “Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until (A)Messiah (B)the Prince,
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
The [a]street shall be built again, and the [b]wall,
Even in troublesome times.

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  1. Daniel 9:25 Or open square
  2. Daniel 9:25 Or moat

13 “I was watching in the night visions,
And behold, (A)One like the Son of Man,
Coming with the clouds of heaven!
He came to the Ancient of Days,
And they brought Him near before Him.
14 (B)Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom,
That all (C)peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.
His dominion is (D)an everlasting dominion,
Which shall not pass away,
And His kingdom the one
Which shall not be destroyed.

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