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Open your mouth for the mute,For the rights of all who are unfortunate and defenseless; So I say: "Don't look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don't try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people." I will destroy Daughter Zion, who is as delicate and defenseless as a young maiden.
Aug 15, 2013 · 1. God defends His chosen people in His time by punishing the wicked who oppress them (1:18-21). In this second vision, Zechariah sees four horns. The type of animal is not specified; it could have been a wild ox, a bull, a ram, a goat, or some combination of these.
But I am a worm, and no man - In contrast with the fathers who trusted in thee. They prayed, and were heard; they confided in God, and were treated as men. I am left and forsaken, as if I were not worth regarding; as if I were a grovelling worm beneath the notice of the great God.
- A man commits to following a greater authority. [Jesus] said, “Follow me.” But [the man] said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead.
- He commits to sacrifice all else in the shadow of discipleship. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”
- He commits to determined, joyful obedience. After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”
- He commits to spiritual discipline. Rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, [Jesus] departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
We may see here three points: the city defenceless, or human nature as it is; the city defended, human nature as it may be in Christ; the city needing no defence, human nature as it will be in heaven.
Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. New Living Translation. “Give justice to the poor and the orphan; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute. English Standard Version.
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