OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Zechariah 2:7

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‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

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Zechariah 2:4–10

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and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

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For I,’ says the LORD, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

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Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says the LORD; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says the LORD.

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‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

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For the LORD of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

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For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a plunder to those who served them; and you will know that the LORD of Armies has sent me.

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Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion! For behold, I come and I will dwell within you,’ says the LORD.

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