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| 1 Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst. |
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| 2 And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city. |
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| 3 And gone forth hath Jehovah, And He hath fought against those nations, As in the day of His fighting in a day of conflict. |
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| 4 And stood have His feet, in that day, On the mount of Olives, That [is] before Jerusalem eastward, And cleft hath been the mount of Olives at its midst, To the east, and to the west, a very great valley, And removed hath the half of the mount towards the north. And its half towards the south. |
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| 5 And ye have fled [to] the valley of My mountains, For join doth the valley of the mountains to Azal, And ye have fled as ye fled before the shaking, In the days of Uzziah king of Judah, And come in hath Jehovah my God, All holy ones [are] with Thee. |
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| 6 And it hath come to pass, in that day, The precious light is not, it is dense darkness, |
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| 7 And there hath been one day, It is known to Jehovah, not day nor night, And it hath been at evening-time there is light. |
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| 8 And it hath come to pass, in that day, Go forth do living waters from Jerusalem, Half of them unto the eastern sea, And half of them unto the western sea, In summer and in winter it is. |
In that day – During the 1,000 year "Day of the Lord" - the Millennial Age.
Living waters – The water of life, the Truth.
Out from Jerusalem – From the New Jerusalem, the glorified church which comes down "as a bride adorned for her husband." Rev. 21:2
In the map of Israel below we can see that the northernmost part of the Dead Sea (the "former sea") is almost directly to the east of Jerusalem while the Mediterranean Sea (the "hinder sea") is to the west.
Half of them – This suggests two thoughts.- There will be two classes.
- They will be about equal in size.
The former sea – The Dead Sea. Remember the context. In this symbolic picture there is now a valley extending east and west from Jerusalem. The former sea is the one looking towards the east, towards the sun rise.
This would picture those who have already lived and died and are in their graves at the time of this picture, the time for the New Covenant to go into operation.
The hinder sea – The Mediterranean Sea.
These would picture those who are still alive at the time for the New Covenant to go into operation.
The "living waters" will reach both of these classes of people.
According to those who deal with population numbers, about half of the people who ever lived are alive today. This lends further credence to the thoughts expressed above.
Summer and in winter shall it be – The Hebrews divided their year into two seasons, summer and winter. D602:1 footnote. |
| 9 And Jehovah hath become king over all the land, In that day there is one Jehovah, and His name one. |
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| 10 Changed is all the land as a plain, From Gebo to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, And she hath been high, and hath dwelt in her place, Even from the gate of Benjamin To the place of the first gate, unto the front gate, And from the tower of Hananeel, Unto the wine-vats of the king. |
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| 11 And they have dwelt in her, And destruction is no more, And Jerusalem hath dwelt confidently. |
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| 12 And this is the plague with which Jehovah Doth plague all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem, He hath consumed away its flesh, And it is standing on its feet, And its eyes are consumed in their holes, And its tongue is consumed in their mouth. |
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| 13 And it hath come to pass, in that day, A great destruction [from] Jehovah is among them, And they have seized each the hand of his neighbour, And gone up hath his hand against the hand of his neighbour. |
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| 14 And also Judah is fought with in Jerusalem, And gathered hath been the force of all the nations round about, Gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. |
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| 15 And so is the plague of the horse, of the mule, Of the camel, and of the ass, And of all the cattle that are in these camps, As this plague. |
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| 16 And it hath come to pass, Every one who hath been left of all the nations, Who are coming in against Jerusalem, They have also gone up from year to year, To bow themselves to the King, Jehovah of Hosts, And to celebrate the feast of the booths. |
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| 17 And it hath come to pass, That he who doth not go up of the families of the land unto Jerusalem, To bow himself to the King, Jehovah of Hosts, Even on them there is no shower. |
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| 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, nor come in, Then not on them is the plague With which Jehovah doth plague the nations That go not up to celebrate the feast of booths. |
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| 19 This is the punishment of the sin of Egypt, And the punishment of the sin of all the nations, That go not up to celebrate the feast of booths. |
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| 20 In that day there is on bells of the horse, 'Holy to Jehovah,' And the pots in the house of Jehovah Have been as bowls before the altar. |
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| 21 And every pot in Jerusalem, and in Judah, Have been holy to Jehovah of Hosts, And all those sacrificing have come in, And have taken of them, and boiled in them, And there is no merchant any more in the house of Jehovah of Hosts in that day! |
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