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The Lord says, “This seems unbelievable to you—a remnant, small, discouraged as you are—but it is no great thing for me. You can be sure that I will rescue my people from east and west, wherever they are scattered. I will bring them home again to live safely in Jerusalem, and they will be my people, and I will be their God, just and true and yet forgiving them their sins!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 8:8 just and true and yet forgiving them their sins, literally, “in truth and in righteousness.”

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time,(A) but will it seem marvelous to me?(B)” declares the Lord Almighty.

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will save my people from the countries of the east and the west.(C) I will bring them back(D) to live(E) in Jerusalem; they will be my people,(F) and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.(G)

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of hosts.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

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