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I will whistle for them to gather them together,For I have redeemed them;And they will be as numerous as they were before.

And I will sow them among the peoples,And they will remember Me in far countries,And they with their children will live and turn back.

And they will pass through the sea of distress,And He will strike the waves in the sea,So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;And the pride of Assyria will be brought down,And the scepter of Egypt will depart.

And I will make them mighty in Yahweh,And in His name they will walk," declares Yahweh.

For I will no longer spare the inhabitants of the land," declares Yahweh; "but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another's hand and into the hand of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand."

And I said to them, "If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!" So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.

"In that day I will make the clans of Judah like a fiery laver among pieces of wood and a fiery torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right hand and on the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem will again be inhabited in its own place—in Jerusalem.

"And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

"And it will be in that day," declares Yahweh of hosts, "that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass away from the land.

And it will be in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive;

And I will bring the third part through the fireAnd refine them as silver is refinedAnd test them as gold is tested.They will call on My name,And I will answer them;I will say, ‘They are My people,'And they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.'"

Now this will be the plague with which Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.

And it will be in that day, that abundant confusion from Yahweh will fall on them; and they will take hold of one another's hand, and the hand of one will go up against the hand of another.

Though Edom says, "We have been demolished, but we will return and build up the waste places"; thus says Yahweh of hosts, "They may build, but I will pull down; and men will call them a territory of wickedness, and the people toward whom Yahweh is indignant forever."

And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

So now we call the arrogant blessed; not only are the doers of wickedness built up, but they also test God and escape.'"

"And they will be Mine," says Yahweh of hosts, "on the day that I prepare My own treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him."

And you will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing," says Yahweh of hosts.

"Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which translated means, "God with us."

And they said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea; for this is what has been written by the prophet: