Daily Bible CEV December 6 Verses

The LORD Tells about the Coming King

⁹Everyone in Jerusalem, celebrate and shout!

Your king has won a victory, and he is coming to you.

He is humble and rides on a donkey;

he comes on the colt of a donkey.

¹⁰I, the LORD, will take away war chariots and horses

from Israel and Jerusalem.

Bows that were made for battle will be broken.

I will bring peace to nations,

and your king will rule from sea to sea.

His kingdom will reach from the Euphrates River

across the earth.

The LORD Promises To Rescue Captives

¹¹When I made a sacred agreement with you, my people,

we sealed it with blood.

Now some of you are captives in waterless pits,

but I will come to your rescue ¹²and offer you hope.

Return to your fortress,

because today I will reward you

with twice what you had.

¹³I will use Judah as my bow and Israel as my arrow.

I will take the people of Zion as my sword

and attack the Greeks.

The LORD Will Protect His People

¹⁴Like a cloud, the LORD God will appear over his people,

and his arrows will flash like lightning.

God will sound his trumpet

and attack in a whirlwind from the south.

¹⁵The LORD All-Powerful will protect his people,

and they will trample down the sharpshooters

and their slingshots.

They will drink and get rowdy;

they will be as full as a bowl

at the time of sacrifice.

¹⁶The LORD God will save them on that day,

because they are his people,

and they will shine on his land like jewels in a crown.

¹⁷How lovely they will be.

Young people will grow there like grain in a field

or grapes in a vineyard.

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