I will signal for them and gather them, for I have already redeemed them; then they will become as numerous as they were before.

The word of the Lord came to me as follows:

On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon ¹  in the plain of Megiddo. ² 

Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes ¹  as he stood there before the angel.

Then the Lord will go to battle ¹  and fight against those nations, just as he fought battles in ancient days. ² 

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me as follows:

“As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?

Then the word of the Lord who rules over all ¹  came to me as follows:

The word of the Lord who rules over all came to me as follows:

On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple ¹  will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar. ² 

The angelic messenger ¹  who had been speaking with me then returned and woke me, as a person is wakened from sleep.

The Lord will take possession of ¹  Judah as his portion in the holy land and he will choose Jerusalem once again.

Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

A day of the Lord ¹  is about to come when your possessions ²  will be divided as plunder in your midst.

Indeed, they made their heart as hard as diamond, ¹  so that they could not obey the Torah and the other words the Lord who rules over all had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore, the Lord who rules over all had poured out great wrath.

The crown will then be turned over to Helem, ¹  Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen ²  son of Zephaniah as a memorial in the temple of the Lord.

as are those of Hamath also, which adjoins Damascus, and Tyre ¹  and Sidon, ²  though they consider themselves to be very wise.

On that day the Lord their God will deliver them as the flock of his people, for they are the precious stones of a crown sparkling over his land.

“‘It then came about that just as I ¹  cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.

by asking both the priests of the temple ¹  of the Lord who rules over all and the prophets, “Should we weep in the fifth month, ²  fasting as we have done over the years?”