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I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
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In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
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The Day of the Lord
You, Lord, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.
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The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
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The arrogance of man will be brought low and human pride humbled; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
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In that day people will throw away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship.
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But in that day he will cry out, “I have no remedy. I have no food or clothing in my house; do not make me the leader of the people.”
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In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces,
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In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own food and provide our own clothes; only let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
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The Branch of the Lord
In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
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Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy.
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It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.
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In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.
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Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument
In that day the Lord will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
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In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and private parts, and to cut off your beard also.
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In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats.
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In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.
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For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.
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So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day;
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What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?
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The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume his thorns and his briers.
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The Remnant of Israel
In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
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In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.
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This day they will halt at Nob; they will shake their fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
