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And the Word of Yahuah of Hosts came, saying:
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“Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘I am jealous for Tziyon with great jealousy, and with great wrath I am jealous for her.’
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Thus says Yahuah: ‘I have returned to Tziyon, and I will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim. And Yerushalayim shall be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of Yahuah of Hosts the Holy Mountain.’
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Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘Again old men and old women shall sit in the streets of Yerushalayim, each ish with his staff in his hand because of the abundance of his days.
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And the streets of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.’
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Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘If it is wondrous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, shall it also be wondrous in My eyes?’ declares Yahuah of Hosts.
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Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘See, I am saving My people from the land of the sunrise and from the land of the going down of the sun.
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And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim. And they shall be My People, and I will be their Elohim, in truth and in Righteousness.’
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Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘Let your hands be strong, you who in these days hear these Words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day the foundation of the House of Yahuah of Hosts was laid, that the Temple might be built.
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For before those days there was no wage for Adam, nor any wage for beast. And for the one going out or coming in there was no shalom because of the adversary, and I set every Adam against his neighbor.
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But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,’ declares Yahuah of Hosts.
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‘For the seed shall be of shalom. The vine shall give its fruit, and the land shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
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And it shall come to pass, just as you were a curse among the nations, House of Yehudah and House of Yisra’el, so I will save you, and you shall become a blessing. Do not fear. Let your hands be strong.’
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For thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘Just as I purposed to do evil to you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,’ says Yahuah of Hosts, ‘and I did not relent,
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so again in these days I have purposed to do good to Yerushalayim and to the House of Yehudah. Do not fear.
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These are the things you shall do: Speak truth, each ish with his neighbor. Judge truth and Judgment of Shalom in your gates.
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And let none of you devise evil in his heart against his neighbor. And do not love a false oath. For all these are things I hate,’ declares Yahuah.”
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And the Word of Yahuah of Hosts came to me, saying:
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“Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall become for the House of Yehudah joy and gladness and good appointed times. Therefore love truth and shalom.’
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Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘Peoples shall yet come, and the inhabitants of many cities.
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And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying: “Going, let us surely go to entreat the face of Yahuah and to seek Yahuah of Hosts. I also will go.”
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And many peoples and mighty nations shall come to seek Yahuah of Hosts in Yerushalayim and to entreat the face of Yahuah.’
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Thus says Yahuah of Hosts: ‘In those days ten men from every tongue of the nations shall take hold— yes, they shall take hold of the corner of the garment of an ish Yehudi, saying: “We will go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you.”’”