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Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”

After a period of glory, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies sent me[a] against the nations who plundered you. For he said, “Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession.[b] I will raise my fist to crush them, and their own slaves will plunder them.” Then you will know that the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has sent me.

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  1. 2:8a The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
  2. 2:8b Hebrew Anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

“Come, Zion! Escape,(A) you who live in Daughter Babylon!”(B) For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye(C) I will surely raise my hand against them so that their slaves will plunder them.[a](D) Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me.(E)

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  1. Zechariah 2:9 Or says after … eye: “I … plunder them.”