New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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Jerusalem a centre of worship for all men
1 An oracle. This is the word of the Lord concerning Israel, the
very word of the Lord who stretched out the heavens and founded
the earth, and who formed the spirit of man within him:
2 I am making
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Jerusalem a centre of worship for all men
the steep approaches note to Jerusalem slippery for all the nations pressing
round her; and note Judah will be caught up in the siege of Jerusalem.
3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth will be gathered against
her, I will make Jerusalem a rock too heavy for any people to remove,
and all who try to lift it shall injure themselves.
4 On that day, says the
Lord, I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness; I
will keep watch over Judah, but I will strike all the horses of the other
nations with blindness.
5 Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves,
‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem find their strength note in the Lord of Hosts
their God.’
6 On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a brazier in woodland,
like a torch blazing among sheaves of corn. They shall devour all the
nations round them, right and left, while the people of Jerusalem remain
safe in their city.
7 The Lord will first set free all the families note of
Judah, so that the glory of David's line and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem
may not surpass that of Judah.
8 On that day the Lord will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem; on
that day the very weakest of them shall be like David, and the line of
David like God, like the angel of the Lord going before them.
9 On that day I will set about destroying all the nations that come
against Jerusalem,
10 but I will pour a spirit of pity and compassion into
the line of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Then
They shall look on me, on him whom they have pierced,
and shall wail over him as over an only child, and shall grieve for him
bitterly as for a first-born son.
11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem shall be as great as the
mourning over Hadad-rimmon in the vale of Megiddo.
12 The land shall
wail, each family by itself: the family of David by itself and its women
by themselves; the family of Nathan by itself and its women by themselves;
the family of Levi by itself and its women by themselves;
13 the
family of Shimei by itself and its women by themselves;
14 all the remaining
families by themselves and their women by themselves.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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