have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. 29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more. 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD. 31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD. EZEK. XLIII:1-9-B. C. 574 1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory. 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. 7¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. 9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. ZECH. IX:12-17—B. C. 517 3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy 12 ¶ Turn you to the strong the city: and the visions were like hold, ye prisoners of hope: even the vision that I saw by the river to day do I declare that I will Chebar; and I fell upon my face.render double unto thee; 13 When I have bent Judah for all the proud, yea, and all that do me, filled the bow with Ephraim, wickedly, shall be stubble: and and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 14 And the LORD shall be seen 2 But unto you that fear my over them, and his arrow shall go name shall the Sun of righteousforth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, ness arise with healing in his and shall go with whirlwinds of wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. the south. 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. 16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. 4¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judg ments. 5 Behold, I will send you Eli17 For how great is his good-jah the prophet before the coming ness, and how great is his beauty! of the great and dreadful day of corn shall make the young men the LORD: cheerful, and new wine the maids. MAL. IV:1-6-B. C. 397 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. |