17aOne thousand shallflee at the threat of one, At the threat of five you shall flee, Till you are left as a1 pole on top of a mountain And as a banner on a hill.
God Will Be Gracious
18 Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be agracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lordis a God of justice; bBlessed are all those who cwait for Him.
19 For the people ashall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; You shall bweep no more. He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will canswer you.
20 And though the Lord gives you aThe bread of adversity and the water of1 affliction, Yet byour teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, But your eyes shall see your teachers.
21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” Whenever you aturn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left.
22aYou will also defile the covering of your images of silver, And the ornament of your molded images of gold. You will throw them away as an unclean thing; bYou will say to them, “Get away!”
23aThen He will give the rain for your seed With which you sow the ground, And bread of the increase of the earth; It will be1 fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed In large pastures.
24 Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground Will eat cured fodder, Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.
25 There will be aon every high mountain And on every high hill Rivers and streams of waters, In the day of the bgreat slaughter, When the towers fall.
Shall dwell - After a set time, they shall return to Jerusalem, and have a fixed abode. This was in part accomplished upon their return from Babylon; but more fully in the times of the gospel, when many of them were, and the whole body of them shall be brought into Christ's church.
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