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ZECHARIAH
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen
that are at ease:
For I was but a little displeased, and they helped
forward the affliction.
Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies:
My house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of
hosts,
And a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts;
My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread
abroad;
And the Lord shall yet comfort Zion,
And shall yet choose Jerusalem.
that are at ease:
For I was but a little displeased, and they helped
forward the affliction.
Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies:
My house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of
hosts,
And a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts;
My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread
abroad;
And the Lord shall yet comfort Zion,
And shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. And the Lord shewed me four carpenters. Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I,
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