Zakariah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 654
The Books of the Prophets
herds, and I will punish the Leaders of the Hook! For the EVER-LIVING visits His Bock of the House of judah, and will place them like horses arranged for battle. From him comes the LEADE1z,--—from him the Dmacroiz; from him the Bow of WAR; from him every RULER, who are like heroes trampling in the mud of the streets in battle, and righting because the EvE1z—x.1v1NG is with them, so they throw down the riders and horses. For I will strengthen them, the House of judah, and the House of joseph, and will establish them, because I pity. So they shall not be as castaways, for I am their EVER-Lxvinca Gon, and will help them. And Ephraim will become Hzrazlr Snug a hero. Then their hearts will rejoice as with wine, and their children will look on and be glad.-—·Their hearts will laugh to the Evan-1.1v1_Nc! ‘I will whistle for and collect
them. When I visit them they shall increase as they used to increase. Although I sowed them among the Peoples, to a distance, they will recollect Me, and revive with their children, and return; For I will restore them from the Mitzeraim, and collect from Ashur, and bring them to the land of Gilad, and Lebanon, and they shall not thirst. Then He will cross the Sea of
Distress, and conquer the Sea of Willows, and all the channels of the River shall be dried, and the pride of Ashur rush down, and the Sceptre of Mitzer be abolished, and they shall be strong in the EvER~L1V1NG, and march in His Name, says the LoRD. uf firturg.
Open your doors, O! Lebanon, That the hre may devour your cedars. Howl, you Pines! For the Cedars have fallen; Because their splendour is gone! Yell, you Oaks of Bashan! For the guarded forest has fallen, The wail of the shepherds is sounding, Because their Socks are spoiled. The voice of the young lions roaring, For the Pride of ]ordan has gone! W5: §¤¤m uf the 3ailh12s¤ myzpbzrhz. Thus says the Evan-Livmo Gon! ‘Feed the flock for slaughter,
whose Guardians murder and do not consider themselves guilty, and whose seller says, ‘ 'I`hank· the Loma! I am rich ! ' for their shepherds pity them not! Therefore I will no more pity says but I will abandon the men each to the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of his leader, and they shall harry the land, and I will not deliver it from their I consequently fed, the flock for
Slaughter, —— who were miserable sheep,-—and took myself two wands. and the
——-and pastured the sheep. But I destroyed one of the sheep everv month,-—·for my life was tired of them, and their lives also were hateful to me. I then said, I will not attend to you,—1et the
dying die,-—and that for slaughter let it be slaughtered and let the rest devour-each the Hesh of the other! ’~’ and
cut it in two, to break by that the Treaty I had made with all the People, and it was broken that same day, and thus the poor of the flock who kept with me knew that it was the command of the EvER·L1v1NG. If it is good in your opinion, pay me my wages; They therefore weighed my wages—·Thirty pieces of silver! But the LGRD commanded me to
cast into the Treasury, the splendid valuation at which I was valued by them !-··-So I took the thirty pieces of silver, and l flung them into the 054 I0 II
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