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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said , Like as the LORD of hoststhought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
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Upon the four and twentiethday of the eleventh*month, which is the monthSebat, in the secondyear of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet,saying ,
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I saw by night, and behold a manriding upon a redhorse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there redhorses,speckled,[a] and white.
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Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
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And the man that stood among the myrtle treesanswered and said , These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
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And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said , We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still , and is at rest .
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Then the angel of the LORDanswered and said , O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and tenyears?
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And the LORDanswered the angel that talked with me with goodwords and comfortablewords.
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So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying , Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a greatjealousy.
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And I am verysoredispleased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a littledispleased , and they helped forward the affliction.