Zechariah 2:7-9

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⁷“Hear, Zion (Jerusalem)! Escape, ^[a]you who are living with the daughter of Babylon!” ⁸For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After ^[b]glory He has sent Me against the nations which plunder you—for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye. ⁹Behold, I will wave my hand over them and they shall become plunder for their own slaves. Then you shall know (recognize, understand fully) that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.

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Footnotes

Zechariah 2:7 Those Jews who voluntarily remained in exile in Babylon after the decree of Cyrus in 538 b.c. were considered adulterers because of their relationship with the Gentiles.
Zechariah 2:8 I.e. the Messiah’s first and second advents, Matt 25:31-46.