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9 ) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
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10 ) And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
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11 ) As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
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12 ) Turn you to the strong hold, all of you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto you,
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13 ) When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
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14 ) And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
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15 ) The LORD of hosts shall defend them, and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones, and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine, and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
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16 ) And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an explicit sign upon his land.
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17 ) For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.