Zechariah 1:16
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16 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord:
(A)“I am returning to Jerusalem with mercy;
My (B)house (C)shall be built in it,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And (D)a surveyor’s line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
Zechariah 2:10-11
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10 (A)“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I (B)will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. 11 (C)“Many nations shall be joined to the Lord (D)in that day, and they shall become (E)My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then (F)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.
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Ezekiel 37:24-28
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24 (A)“David My servant shall be king over them, and (B)they shall all have one shepherd; (C)they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. 25 (D)Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, (E)forever; and (F)My servant David shall be their prince forever. 26 Moreover I will [a]make (G)a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and (H)multiply them, and I will set My (I)sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 (J)My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be (K)their God, and they shall be My people. 28 (L)The nations also will know that I, the Lord, (M)sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” ’ ”
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- Ezekiel 37:26 Lit. cut
Ezra 6:14-15
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14 (A)So the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the [a]command of (B)Cyrus, (C)Darius, and (D)Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15 Now the temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
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- Ezra 6:14 decree
Zechariah 4:9
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9 “The hands of Zerubbabel
(A)Have laid the foundation of this [a]temple;
His hands (B)shall also finish it.
Then (C)you will know
That the (D)Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.
Footnotes
- Zechariah 4:9 Lit. house
Isaiah 54:8-10
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8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
(A)But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says the Lord, your Redeemer.
9 “For this is like the waters of (B)Noah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with (C)you, nor rebuke you.
10 For (D)the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
(E)But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Zechariah 2:1-2
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Vision of the Measuring Line
2 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, (A)a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 So I said, “Where are you going?”
And he said to me, (B)“To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”
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Ezekiel 47:3
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3 And when (A)the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the water came up to my ankles.
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Ezekiel 40:3
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3 He took me there, and behold, there was a man whose appearance was (A)like the appearance of bronze. (B)He had a line of flax (C)and a measuring rod in his hand, and he stood in the gateway.
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Ezekiel 39:25-29
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25 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)‘Now I will bring back the captives of Jacob, and have mercy on the (B)whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name— 26 (C)after they have borne their shame, and all their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, when they (D)dwelt safely in their own land and no one made them afraid. 27 (E)When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and I (F)am hallowed in them in the sight of many nations, 28 (G)then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who sent them into captivity among the nations, but also brought them back to their land, and left none of them [a]captive any longer. 29 (H)And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I shall have (I)poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord God.”
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- Ezekiel 39:28 Lit. there
Job 38:5
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5 Who determined its measurements?
Surely you know!
Or who stretched the [a]line upon it?
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- Job 38:5 measuring line
Haggai 1:14
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14 So (A)the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, (B)governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; (C)and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God,
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Ezekiel 48:35
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35 All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; (A)and the name of the city from that day shall be: (B)THE[a] LORD IS THERE.”
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- Ezekiel 48:35 Heb. YHWH Shammah
Jeremiah 33:10-12
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10 “Thus says the Lord: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place—(A)of which you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast”—in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, 11 the (B)voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say:
(C)“Praise the Lord of hosts,
For the Lord is good,
For His mercy endures forever”—
and of those who will bring (D)the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,’ says the Lord.
12 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (E)‘In this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
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Jeremiah 31:39-40
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39 (A)The surveyor’s line shall again extend straight forward over the hill Gareb; then it shall turn toward Goath. 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Brook Kidron, (B)to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, (C)shall be holy to the Lord. It shall not be plucked up or thrown down anymore forever.”
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Jeremiah 31:22-25
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22 How long will you (A)gad about,
O you (B)backsliding daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth—
A woman shall encompass a man.”
Future Prosperity of Judah
23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “They shall again use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: (C)‘The Lord bless you, O home of justice, and (D)mountain of holiness!’ 24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and (E)in all its cities together, farmers and those going out with flocks. 25 For I have [a]satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
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- Jeremiah 31:25 fully satisfied
Isaiah 44:26-28
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26 (A)Who confirms the word of His servant,
And performs the counsel of His messengers;
Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’
To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’
And I will raise up her waste places;
27 (B)Who says to the deep, ‘Be dry!
And I will dry up your rivers’;
28 Who says of (C)Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd,
And he shall perform all My pleasure,
Saying to Jerusalem, (D)“You shall be built,”
And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” ’
Isaiah 34:11
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11 (A)But the [a]pelican and the [b]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And (B)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
- Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
Isaiah 12:1
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A Hymn of Praise
12 And (A)in that day you will say:
“O Lord, I will praise You;
Though You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
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