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PROPHECIES.
Arise, shine, for thy glory has come, and the
| glory of the Lord isupon thee.
Lift up time eyes about thee, and see; all they
gather themselves together, they come too thee;
thy sons come from far, and thy daughters shall
be nursed at thy side.
Surely the isles shall wait for thee, and the
ships ofTarshsh first; TO bring thy sons from
far, their silver and geld with them, unto the
Lord thy Cod and to the Holy One of Israel, be-
cause He hath glorfed thee.
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy
walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee;
for in my wrath haze smots thee, but in nv
favor have had mercy on thee.
For the nation and kingdom that will not
serve thee; yea, those nations shall be utterly
wasted.
The sdrs, also, of those who ac...ied thee
shall come bending unto thee and a. ttssS that
despised thee shall call thee the City VI the
Lord, the Zion of the Holy on, of Israel.
Whereas thou hast been forsaken aud hated
so that no man went through thee; will make
thee an eternal excellency-a joy Of many gen.
| erations.
A little one shall become a thousand and a
small one strong nation; l. the Lord, will has
ten it in his name.-fsaiah: chap. tx.
Thus saith the Lord the Redeemer of Israel
and His Holy One, to him whom man despiseth,
to him whom the nation abhoreth, to a servant
of rulers Kings shall see and rise, princes shall
worship, because of the Lord that is faithful
and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose
thee.
Sing heavens, ani be joyful o earth, and
break forth into singing mountains, for thy
Lord hath eomferted His people, and will have
mercy upon its afflicted
But Zion said, the Lord had forsaken me, and
God hath forgotten me.
Can woman forget her sucllling child that
she should not have compassion on the sou Of
her womb Yea, tsey may forget, but will
not forget thee.
For Thy waste and desolate places shall
even now be too narrow by reason of the inhab-
itants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be
far away.
Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath
begotten me these, seeing that have lost my
children, and am desOlate, a captive, and re-
moving to and fro? Behold, was left
,alOne-these; where had they been?
Then saith the Lord Cod, behold will lift up
mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my stan>
dard to the people; aud they shall bring thy sons
in their arms, and thy daughters shall be car,
ried on their shoulders.
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers and
their queens thy nursing mothers.-Isaiah, xix.
Behold will make Jerusalem cup of trem-
bling to all the people round about, when they
shall ip the seige both against Judah and Jeru-
salem.
And in that day will make Jeruralem a bur.
densome stone for all the people. All that bur-
den themselves with it shall be cut in piece3.
though'all the people be gathered together and
against it,
And the governors of Judah stall say in their
hearts: the Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my
strength.
In tha: day l will make the government of
Jndah like an hearth OF FIRE among wood, and
like torch of FIRE in a sheaf and they shall de>
YOUR all the people round about on the right
hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be in =,
babited again in her old place, even in Jerusa-
lem.
| In that day the Lord shall defend the inhabi,
tants of Jerusalem, and he that is feeble among
them in that day shall be as Dayid; aud the home
| of David shall be as God, as the Angel of the
Lord before them.-Zechariah: chap. xii.
All the land shall be turned as a plain from
Geba to Rimnon, south of Jerusalem; and it
shall be lifted up and inha bited in her place
And pen shall dwell in it, there shall be no
more utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall be
safely inhabited.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the
Lord will snite all the people that have fought
to pass in that day that great tumnlt shall be
among them, aud they shall lay hold every one
on the hand of his neighbor; and his hands shall
f1se up against the hand of bis neghbor.
And it shall come to pass that everyone that
is left of all the nations which came against Je-
rusalem, shall even go mp from year to year to
worship the King the Lord of Hosts.
Zechariah: chap. xiv.
NUMBERS OF THE JEWS.
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