Hello and welcome back
to "His Words Are Life."
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I'm Kelly Mowrer,
and today we are reading
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from the Book of Zephaniah,
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but let's pray
together before we start.
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Dear Heavenly
Father, thank you so much
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for this
opportunity to hear again
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of how much You long
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to have us be holy
and completely Yours.
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And that You offer mercy
to us when we transgress.
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We ask Your
forgiveness and Your grace
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and we ask that You be
with us now as we read.
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In the name of Jesus, amen.
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Reading in Zephaniah Chapter 1,
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picking up with verse 9,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"In the same day also
will I punish all those
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that leap on the threshold,
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which fill their masters' houses
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with violence and deceit.
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And it shall come
to pass in that day,
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saith the Lord,
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that there shall
be the noise of a cry
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from the fish gate,
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and an howling from the second,
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and a great
crashing from the hills.
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Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh,
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for all the
merchant people are cut down,
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all they that bear
silver are cut off.
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And it shall come
to pass at that time,
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that I will search
Jerusalem with candles,
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and punish the men that
are settled on their lees,
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that say in their heart,
the Lord will not do good,
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neither will he do evil.
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Therefore their
goods shall become a booty,
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and their houses a desolation,
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they shall also build
houses, but not inhabit them,
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and they shall plant vineyards,
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but not drink the wine thereof.
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The great day of the
Lord is near, it is near,
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and hasteth greatly,
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even the voice of
the day of the Lord,
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the mighty man
shall cry there bitterly.
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That day is a day of wrath,
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a day of trouble and distress,
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a day of
wasteness and desolation,
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a day of
darkness and gloominess,
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a day of clouds
and thick darkness.
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A day of the trumpet and
alarm against the fenced cities,
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and against the high towers.
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And I will bring
distress upon men,
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that they shall
walk like blind men,
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because they have
sinned against the Lord,
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and their blood shall
be poured out as dust,
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and their flesh as the dung.
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Neither their
silver nor their gold
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shall be able to deliver them
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in the day of the Lord's wrath,
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but the whole
land shall be devoured
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by the fire of his jealousy,
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for he shall make even a
speedy riddance of all them
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that dwell in the land."
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Continuing with
Zephaniah Chapter 2,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Gather yourselves
together, yea, gather together,
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O nation not desired,
Before the decree bring forth,
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before the day
pass as the chaff,
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before the fierce anger
of the Lord come upon you,
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before the day of the
Lord's anger come upon you.
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Seek ye the Lord,
all ye meek of the earth,
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which have wrought his judgment,
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seek
righteousness, seek meekness,
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it may be ye shall be hid
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in the day of the Lord's anger.
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For Gaza shall be forsaken,
and Ashkelon a desolation,
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they shall drive out
Ashdod at the noon day,
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and Ekron shall be rooted up.
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Woe unto the
inhabitants of the sea coast,
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the nation of the Cherethites.
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The word of the
Lord is against you,
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O Canaan, the land
of the Philistines,
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I will even destroy thee,
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that there shall
be no inhabitant.
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And the sea coast
shall be dwellings
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and cottages for
shepherds, and folds for flocks.
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And the coast
shall be for the remnant
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of the house of Judah,
they shall feed thereupon,
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in the houses of Ashkelon
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shall they lie
down in the evening,
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for the Lord their
God shall visit them,
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and turn away their captivity.
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I have heard the
reproach of Moab,
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and the revilings of
the children of Ammon,
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whereby they have
reproached my people,
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and magnified
themselves against their border.
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Therefore as I live,
saith the Lord of hosts,
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the God of Israel,
surely Moab shall be as Sodom,
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and the children
of Ammon as Gomorrah,
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even the breeding of
nettles, and saltpits,
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and a perpetual desolation,
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the residue of my
people shall spoil them,
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and the remnant of my
people shall possess them.
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This shall they
have for their pride,
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because they have reproached
and magnified themselves
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against the people
of the Lord of hosts.
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The Lord will be
terrible unto them,
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for he will famish
all the gods of the earth,
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and men shall worship
him, every one from his place,
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even all the
isles of the heathen.
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Ye Ethiopians also, ye
shall be slain by my sword.
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And he will stretch out
his hand against the north,
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and destroy Assyria,
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and will make
Nineveh a desolation,
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and dry like a wilderness.
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And flocks shall lie
down in the midst of her,
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all the beasts of the nations,
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both the
cormorant and the bittern
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shall lodge in the
upper lintels of it,
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their voice shall
sing in the windows,
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desolation shall
be in the thresholds,
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for he shall
uncover the cedar work.
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This is the rejoicing
city that dwelt carelessly,
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that said in her heart, I
am, and there is none beside me,
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how is she become a desolation,
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a place for
beasts to lie down in.
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Every one that
passeth by her shall hiss,
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and wag his hand."
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Continuing in
Zephaniah Chapter 3,
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and this is the
King James Version.
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"Woe to her that is filthy
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and polluted, to
the oppressing city.
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She obeyed not the voice,
she received not correction,
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she trusted not in the Lord,
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she drew not near to her God.
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Her princes within
her are roaring lions,
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her judges are evening wolves,
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they gnaw not the
bones till the morrow.
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Her prophets are light
and treacherous persons,
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her priests have
polluted the sanctuary,
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they have done
violence to the law.
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The just Lord is
in the midst thereof,
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he will not do iniquity,
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every morning doth he
bring his judgment to light,
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he faileth not, but the
unjust knoweth no shame.
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I have cut off the nations,
their towers are desolate,
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I made their streets
waste, that none passeth by,
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their cities are destroyed,
so that there is no man,
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that there is none inhabitant.
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I said, surely
thou wilt fear me,
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thou wilt receive instruction,
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so their dwelling
should not be cut off,
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howsoever I punished
them, but they rose early,
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and corrupted all their doings.
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Therefore wait ye
upon me, saith the Lord,
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until the day that
I rise up to the prey,
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for my determination
is to gather the nations,
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that I may
assemble the kingdoms,
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to pour upon
them mine indignation,
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even all my fierce
anger, for all the earth
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shall be devoured with
the fire of my jealousy.
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For then will I turn to
the people a pure language,
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that they may all call
upon the name of the Lord,
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to serve him with one consent.
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From beyond the rivers
of Ethiopia my suppliants,
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even the
daughter of my dispersed,
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shall bring mine offering.
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In that day shalt thou not
be ashamed for all thy doings,
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wherein thou hast
transgressed against me,
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for then I will take
away out of the midst of thee
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them that rejoice in thy pride,
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and thou shalt
no more be haughty
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because of my holy mountain.
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I will also leave
in the midst of thee
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an afflicted and poor people,
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and they shall trust
in the name of the Lord.
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The remnant of Israel
shall not do iniquity,
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nor speak lies,
neither shall a deceitful
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tongue be found in their mouth,
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for they shall
feed and lie down,
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and none shall make them afraid.
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Sing, O daughter of Zion, shout,
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O Israel, be glad and
rejoice with all the heart,
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O daughter of Jerusalem.
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The Lord hath
taken away thy judgments,
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he hath cast out thine
enemy, the king of Israel,
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even the Lord, is
in the midst of thee,
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thou shalt not
see evil any more.
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In that day it shall
be said to Jerusalem,
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fear thou not, and to Zion,
let not thine hands be slack.
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The Lord thy God in the
midst of thee is mighty,
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he will save, he will
rejoice over thee with joy,
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he will rest in his love,
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he will joy over
thee with singing.
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I will gather
them that are sorrowful
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for the solemn
assembly, who are of thee,
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to whom the
reproach of it was a burden.
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Behold, at that time I
will undo all that afflict thee,
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and I will save
her that halteth,
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and gather her
that was driven out,
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and I will get them
praise and fame in every land
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where they have
been put to shame.
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At that time will
I bring you again,
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even in the time
that I gather you,
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for I will make
you a name and a praise
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among all people of the earth,
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when I turn back your captivity
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before your
eyes, saith the Lord."
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Continuing with the
Book of Haggai Chapter 1,
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this is the King James Version.
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"In the second
year of Darius the king,
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in the sixth month, in
the first day of the month,
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came the word of the
Lord by Haggai the prophet
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unto Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel,
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governor of Judah,
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and to Joshua
the son of Josedech,
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the high priest, saying,
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Thus speaketh the
Lord of hosts, saying,
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this people say,
The time is not come,
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the time that the
Lord's house should be built.
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Then came the word of the
Lord by Haggai the prophet,
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saying, Is it time for you,
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O ye, to dwell in
your cieled houses,
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and this house lie waste?
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Now therefore thus
saith the Lord of hosts,
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consider your ways.
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Ye have sown much,
and bring in little,
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ye eat, but ye have not enough,
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ye drink, but ye are
not filled with drink,
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ye clothe you, but
there is none warm,
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and he that
earneth wages earneth wages
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to put it into a bag with holes.
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Thus saith the Lord of
hosts, consider your ways.
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Go up to the
mountain, and bring wood,
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and build the house,
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and I will take pleasure in it,
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and I will be
glorified, saith the Lord.
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Ye looked for much,
and, lo it came to little,
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and when ye brought it
home, I did blow upon it.
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Why? saith the Lord of hosts.
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Because of mine
house that is waste,
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and ye run every
man unto his own house.
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Therefore the heaven
over you is stayed from dew,
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and the earth is
stayed from her fruit.
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And I called for a
drought upon the land,
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and upon the
mountains, and upon the corn,
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and upon the new
wine, and upon the oil,
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and upon that which
the ground bringeth forth,
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and upon men, and upon cattle,
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and upon all the
labour of the hands.
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Then Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel,
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and Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest,
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with all the
remnant of the people,
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obeyed the voice
of the Lord their God,
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and the words of
Haggai the prophet,
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as the Lord
their God had sent him,
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and the people did
fear before the Lord.
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Then spake Haggai
the Lord's messenger
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in the Lord's
message unto the people,
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saying, I am with
you, saith the Lord.
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And the Lord stirred up
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the spirit of
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
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governor of Judah,
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and the spirit of
Joshua the son of Josedech,
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the high priest,
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and the spirit of all
the remnant of the people,
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and they came and did work
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in the house of the
Lord of hosts, their God.
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In the four and twentieth
day of the sixth month,
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in the second year
of Darius the king."
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Continuing with
Haggai Chapter 2,
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this is the King James Version.
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"In the seventh month,
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in the one and
twentieth day of the month,
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came the word of the Lord
by the prophet Haggai, saying,
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speak now to Zerubbabel
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the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
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and to Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest,
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and to the residue
of the people, saying,
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who is left among you that saw
this house in her first glory?
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and how do ye see it now?
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is it not in your eyes in
comparison of it as nothing?
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Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel,
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saith the Lord, and
be strong, O Joshua,
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son of
Josedech, the high priest,
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and be strong, all
ye people of the land,
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saith the Lord, and
work, for I am with you,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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According to the word
that I covenanted with you
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when ye came out of Egypt,
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so my spirit remaineth
among you, fear ye not.
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For thus saith
the Lord of hosts,
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Yet once, it is a little while,
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and I will shake the heavens,
and the earth, and the sea,
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and the dry land, And
I will shake all nations,
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and the desire of
all nations shall come,
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and I will fill
this house with glory,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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The silver is mine,
and the gold is mine,
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saith the Lord of hosts.
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The glory of this latter house
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shall be greater
than of the former,
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saith the Lord of hosts,
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and in this place
will I give peace,
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saith the Lord of hosts."
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