Zechariah 8:10
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10 Before that time there were no wages(A) for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely(B) because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor.
Haggai 1:6-11
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6 You have planted much, but harvested little.(A) You eat, but never have enough.(B) You drink, but never have your fill.(C) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,(D) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought(E) to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber(F) and build my house, so that I may take pleasure(G) in it and be honored,(H)” says the Lord. 9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.(I) What you brought home, I blew(J) away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin,(K) while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld(L) their dew(M) and the earth its crops.(N) 11 I called for a drought(O) on the fields and the mountains,(P) on the grain, the new wine,(Q) the olive oil(R) and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.(S)”
Haggai 2:16-18
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16 When anyone came to a heap(A) of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat(B) to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.(C) 17 I struck all the work of your hands(D) with blight,(E) mildew and hail,(F) yet you did not return(G) to me,’ declares the Lord.(H) 18 ‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought(I) to the day when the foundation(J) of the Lord’s temple was laid. Give careful thought:
Amos 9:4
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4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
there I will command the sword(A) to slay them.
Amos 3:6
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Isaiah 19:2
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Matthew 10:34-36
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34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn
Footnotes
- Matthew 10:36 Micah 7:6
Jeremiah 16:16
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16 “But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them.(A) After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt(B) them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.(C)
Judges 5:11
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11 the voice of the singers[a] at the watering places.
They recite the victories(A) of the Lord,
the victories of his villagers in Israel.
“Then the people of the Lord
went down to the city gates.(B)
Footnotes
- Judges 5:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Judges 5:6-7
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2 Chronicles 15:5-7
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5 In those days it was not safe to travel about,(A) for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil. 6 One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another,(B) because God was troubling them with every kind of distress. 7 But as for you, be strong(C) and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.”(D)
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