Micah 4Micah 5John 2Micah 4
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But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills and peoples will be flowing to it.
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And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.
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But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.
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For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
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In that day, says the Lord, I will get together her who goes with uncertain steps, I will get together her who has been sent away, and her on whom I have sent evil
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And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.
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And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
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Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:
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Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon there you will have salvation there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.
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And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
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But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.
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Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
Micah 5
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Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.
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And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
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For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.
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And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.
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And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.
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And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.
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And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
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And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.
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Your hand is lifted up against those who are against you, and all your haters will be cut off.
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And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:
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I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:
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I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:
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And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.
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I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.
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And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.
John 2
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On the third day two people were going to be married at Cana in Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there:
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And Jesus with his disciples came as guests.
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When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.
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Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business my time is still to come.
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His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.
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Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.
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Jesus said to the servants, Make the pots full of water. And they made them full to the top.
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Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.
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After tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the water out) sent for the newly-married man,
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And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good but you have kept the good wine till now.
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This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee and let his glory be seen openly and his disciples put their faith in him.
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After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.
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The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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And there in the Temple he saw men trading in oxen and sheep and doves, and he saw the changers of money in their seats:
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And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables
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And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away do not make my Father's house a market.
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And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.
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Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?
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And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.
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The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years and you will put it up in three days!
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But his words were about that holy building which was his body.
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So when he had come back again from the dead, the memory of these words came back to the disciples, and they had faith in the holy Writings and in the word which Jesus had said.
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Now while he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, a great number of people came to have faith in his name, after seeing the signs which he did.
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But Jesus did not have faith in them, because he had knowledge of them all.
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He had no need for any witness about man for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.
