The Lord # 49
49. 3. “Spirit” means the life of those who have been regenerated, which is called spiritual life.
Jesus said, “Unless you have been born of water and the spirit you cannot enter the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5)
I will give you a new heart and a new spirit. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes. (Ezekiel 36:26-27)
God will give a new heart and a new spirit. (Ezekiel 11:19)
Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a strong spirit within me. Bring back to me the joy of your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me. (Psalms 51:10-12)
Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? (Ezekiel 18:31)
You send out your spirit, and they are created; you renew the face of the earth. (Psalms 104:30)
The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23)
Jehovah God gives soul to the people and spirit to those who are walking on [the earth]. (Isaiah 42:5)
Jehovah forms the human spirit within us. (Zechariah 12:1)
With my soul I have awaited you in the night; with my spirit within me I have awaited you in the morning. (Isaiah 26:9)
On that day Jehovah will become a spirit of judgment to the one who sits in judgment. (Isaiah 28:6)
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. (Luke 1:47)
They have given rest to my spirit in the land of the north. (Zechariah 6:8)
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me. (Psalms 31:5)
There was not one, even among the remnant who had spirit. (Malachi 2:15)
After three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered the two witnesses who had been killed by the beast. (Revelation 11:11)
I, Jehovah, form the mountains and create the spirit. (Amos 4:13)
O God, the God of the spirits for all flesh... (Numbers 16:22; 27:18)
I will pour a spirit from on high upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:10)
... even until he has poured out upon us a spirit from on high. (Isaiah 32:15)
I will pour out waters upon those who are thirsty and streams upon the dry land; I will pour out my spirit upon your seed. (Isaiah 44:3)
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; also upon my male and female servants I will pour out spirit in those days. (Joel 2:28-29)
To pour out the spirit means to regenerate, as does to give a new heart and a new spirit.
[2] “Spirit” refers to the spiritual life of people who have been genuinely humbled.
I dwell in a crushed and humble spirit, to bring to life the spirit of the humble and to bring to life the heart of the crushed. (Isaiah 57:15)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; God will not scorn a crushed and broken heart. (Psalms 51:17)
He will give the oil of joy in place of mourning, and a garment of praise in place of a confined spirit. (Isaiah 61:3)
... a woman abandoned and afflicted in spirit. (Isaiah 54:6)
Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. (Matthew 5:3)
Zechariah 12
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An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
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"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
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It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
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In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
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The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.'
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In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
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Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
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In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.
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It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
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The land will mourn, every family 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 the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
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all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
