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The burden of the word of Jehovah against Israel , says ◦ Jehovah , who stretches··out the heavens , and founds the earth , and forms the spirit of man in his midst◦.
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Behold, I▵ will set Jerusalem as a bowl of trepidation to all the people all around, and also they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem .
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And it will be in that◦ day that I will set Jerusalem as a stone , a load for all the peoples to bear; all who bear··the··load lacerating shall be lacerated, and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered ··together to her.
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In that◦ day , says ◦ Jehovah , I will smite every horse with amazement, and his rider with madness; and I will open ◦ My eyes on the house of Judah , and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.
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And the leaders of Judah shall say in their heart , They who dwell in Jerusalem shall be an encouragement to me, in Jehovah of Armies their God .
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In that◦ day I will set the leaders of Judah like◦ a laver* of fire among◦ the wood , and like◦ a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people all around, on the right and on the left; and Jerusalem shall still dwell in her own place* in Jerusalem .
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And Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first , so··that the splendor of the house of David and the splendor of those who dwell in Jerusalem may not magnify themselves against Judah .
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In that◦ day shall Jehovah defend those who dwell in Jerusalem ; and he who stumbles among◦ them in that◦ day shall be as David ; and the house of David shall be as God , as the angel of Jehovah before them.
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And it shall be in that◦ day , that I will seek to blot··out all the nations that come against Jerusalem .
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And I will spill··out on the house of David , and on those who dwell in Jerusalem , the spirit of grace and of supplications◦; and they shall look to▵ Me whom they have thrust··through, and they shall wail over Him, as one wailing over an only◦ child, and shall be··bitter over Him, as one is··bitter over his firstborn .
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In that◦ day there shall be a great wailing in Jerusalem , as the wailing of Hadadrimmon in the vale of Megiddo .
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And the land shall wail, families , families apart ; the family of the house of David apart , and their wives apart ; the family of the house of Nathan apart , and their wives apart ;
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the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Simeon◦ apart, and their wives apart;
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all the families that are left, families , families apart, and their wives apart.