As part of the lead up to Advent readings, we're reading the final prophets before God speaking to Israel appears to have gone dark for several hundred years. We are now in the next to the last prophet before Jesus' birth, Zechariah. The Book of Zechariah was written between 520 and 480 BC.
Check out the video below. Today's readings are part of the video section from mark 5:52 to about 6:13.
10:8
I will whistle and gather them
because I have redeemed them;
they will be as numerous as they once were.
9
Though I sow them among the nations,
they will remember me in the distant lands;
they and their children will live and return.
10
I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them to the land of Gilead
and to Lebanon,
but it will not be enough for them.
11
The Lord [Lit He] will pass through the sea of distress
and strike the waves of the sea;
all the depths of the Nile will dry up.
The pride of Assyria will be brought down,
and the scepter of Egypt will come to an end.
12
I will strengthen them in the Lord,
and they will march in his name—
I will whistle and gather them
because I have redeemed them;
they will be as numerous as they once were.
9
Though I sow them among the nations,
they will remember me in the distant lands;
they and their children will live and return.
10
I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them to the land of Gilead
and to Lebanon,
but it will not be enough for them.
11
The Lord [Lit He] will pass through the sea of distress
and strike the waves of the sea;
all the depths of the Nile will dry up.
The pride of Assyria will be brought down,
and the scepter of Egypt will come to an end.
12
I will strengthen them in the Lord,
and they will march in his name—
this is the Lord’s declaration.
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