Chapter 9

The bordering enemies of the Jews shall believe in Christ: ℣.9 who will first come to the Jews in meekness, yet in solemnity riding on an ass: ℣.11 deliver the godly from the lake, ℣.12 give great things to the faithful, ℣.17 and one most excellent thing above the rest.

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   The burden of the word of our Lord in the land of Hadrach, & Damascus his rest: because our Lord is the eye of man, and of all the tribes of Israel.

2. 2

   Emath also in the borders thereof, & Tyre, & Sidon: for they have taken to themselves wisdom exceedingly.

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   And Tyre hath built her munitions, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

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   Behold our Lord shall possess her, and shall strike her strength in the sea, & she shall be devoured with fire.

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   Ascalon shall see, and shall fear, and Gaza, and shall be sorry exceedingly: & Accaron, because her hope is confounded: and the king shall perish out of Gaza, & Ascalon shall not be inhabited.

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   And the separator shall sit in Azotus, and I will destroy the pride of the Philistiims.

7. 7

   And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations out of the midst of his teeth: and he also shall be left to our God, and he shall be as a duke in Juda, & Accaron as a Jebuseite.

8. 8

   And I will environ my house of them, that serve me in warfare going and returning, & the exactor shall no more pass over them: because now I have seen with mine eyes.

9. 9

   Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Sion, make jubilation, o daughter of Jerusalem: Behold thy king will come to thee, the just & saviour: himself poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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    And I will destroy chariot out of Ephraim, and horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be dissipated: and he shall speak peace to the Gentiles, and his power from sea even to sea, and from the rivers even to the end of the earth.

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    Thou also in the blood of thy testament hast let forth thy prisoners out of the lake, wherein is no water.

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    Convert to the munition ye prisoners of hope, to day also declaring I will render thee double.

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    Because I have bent Juda for me as a bow, I have filled Ephraim: and I will raise up thy sons o Sion upon thy sons o Greece, and I will make thee as the sword of the strong.

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    And our Lord God shall be seen over them, and his dart shall go forth as lightning: and our Lord God will sound with trumpet, and will go in the whirlwind of the South.

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    The Lord of hosts will protect them: and they shall devour, and subdue with the stones of the sling: and drinking they shall be drunk as it were of wine, & they shall be filled as phials, and the horns of the altar.

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    And our Lord their God will save them in that day, as the flock of his people: because holy stones shall be elevated over his land.

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    For what is his good thing, and what is his beautiful thing, but the corn of the elect, and wine springing virgins?