Zechariah 1:20

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Zechariah 1:20

And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.

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stronghold, O prisoners who have the hope;

This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.

“My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
And I will punish the male goats;
For the Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah,
And will make them like His majestic horse in battle.

“Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.

“Your locks will be iron and bronze,

And according to your days, so will your leisurely walk be.

For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh,

Then the Lord sent Jerubbaal and

Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around, so that you lived in security.

“Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their oppressors who oppressed them,
But when they cried to You in the time of their distress,
You heard from heaven, and according to Your great compassion
You gave them deliverers who delivered them from the hand of their oppressors.

“If anyone fiercely assails you it will not be from Me.

Whoever assails you will fall because of you.

The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion
To judge the mountain of Esau,
And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.

This One will be our peace.
When the Assyrian invades our land,
When he tramples on our citadels,
Then we will raise against him
Seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.