And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.
And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.
Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.
Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,
Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers, consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels, that you may tell the next generation
Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
And one from Jacob shall exercise dominion and destroy the survivors of cities!”
“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’
He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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