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Zechariah 1:12
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Zechariah 1:12
12¶ Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
12¶ Then the Angel of the LORD answered, and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not haue mercie on Ierusalem, and on the cities of Iudah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten yeeres?
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DEFINED WORDS
Zechariah 1:12
A messenger; especially a heavenly messenger sent by God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Replied or responded; spoke in answer to a person, statement, or situation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Armies or organized multitudes; also persons who receive guests, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To will, choose, intend, or be disposed to; as an auxiliary, indicates future action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
indignation
Anger or extreme anger, mingled with contempt, disgust or abhorrence; chafing.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
threescore
Thrice twenty; sixty.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Periods of twelve months.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study2In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study10¶ For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
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Open the full verse study13Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
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Open the full verse study10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
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Open the full verse study5Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
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Open the full verse study10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
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Open the full verse study21To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
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Open the full verse study25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
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Open the full verse study8I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.
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Open the full verse study20¶ Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
22But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
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Open the full verse study9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
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Open the full verse study9¶ Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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Open the full verse study11And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
12¶ And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
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Open the full verse study5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
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Open the full verse study10And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
11And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
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