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For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.'"

"Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north," declares the LORD, "for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven," declares the LORD.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "After His glory has sent me against the nations that have plundered you-for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye-

I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me."

"Shout for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you," declares the LORD.

Be silent before the LORD, all people, for He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling."

'Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in Zerubbabel's hand."

Then he told me, "This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, everyone who swears falsely will be removed.

"To build a house for it in the land of Shinar," he told me. "And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal."

"Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor."

For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.

"For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent," says the LORD of Hosts,

do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all these things," declares the LORD.

"This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace."

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "In those days ten men from all nations and languages will tightly grasp the robe of a Jewish man, saying, 'Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"

An Oracle: The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus-for the eyes of men and of all the tribes of Israel are upon the LORD-