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Verse	Translation	Text
Zec 8:23	Strong Concordance	Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; In those days [03117] it shall come to pass, that ten [06235] men [0582] shall take hold [02388] out of all languages [03956] of the nations [01471], even shall take hold [02388] of the skirt [03671] of him that is a Jew [0376] [03064], saying [0559], We will go [03212] with you: for we have heard [08085] that God [0430] is with you.
	King James	Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
ten--a definite number for an indefinite. So in Lev 22:26; Num 14:22. of all languages of the nations--that is, of nations of all languages (compare Isa 66:18; Rev 7:9). take hold of the skirt--a gesture of suppliant entreaty as to a superior. Compare Isa 3:6; Isa 4:1, on a different occasion. The Gentiles shall eagerly seek to share the religious privileges of the Jew. The skirt with a fringe and blue ribbon upon it (Num 15:38; Deu 22:12) was a distinguishing badge of a Jew. God is with you--the effect produced on unbelievers in entering the assemblies of the Church (Co1 14:25). But primarily, that produced on the nations in witnessing the deliverance of the Jews by Cyrus. Finally, that to be produced on the nations by the future grand interposition of Messiah in behalf of His people. Written long after the previous portions of the book, whence arise the various features which have been made grounds for attacking their authenticity, notwithstanding the testimony of the Septuagint and of the compilers of the Jewish canon in their favor. See Introduction. ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS IN SYRIA (Zac 9:1-8). GOD'S PEOPLE SAFE BECAUSE HER COMETH LOWLY, BUT A SAVIOUR (Zac 9:9-10). THE MACCABEAN DELIVERANCE A TYPE THEREOF (Zac 9:11-17).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

ten--a definite number for an indefinite. So in Lev 22:26; Num 14:22.

of all languages of the nations--that is, of nations of all languages (compare Isa 66:18; Rev 7:9).

take hold of the skirt--a gesture of suppliant entreaty as to a superior. Compare Isa 3:6; Isa 4:1, on a different occasion. The Gentiles shall eagerly seek to share the religious privileges of the Jew. The skirt with a fringe and blue ribbon upon it (Num 15:38; Deu 22:12) was a distinguishing badge of a Jew.

God is with you--the effect produced on unbelievers in entering the assemblies of the Church (Co1 14:25). But primarily, that produced on the nations in witnessing the deliverance of the Jews by Cyrus. Finally, that to be produced on the nations by the future grand interposition of Messiah in behalf of His people.

Written long after the previous portions of the book, whence arise the various features which have been made grounds for attacking their authenticity, notwithstanding the testimony of the Septuagint and of the compilers of the Jewish canon in their favor. See Introduction.

ALEXANDER'S CONQUESTS IN SYRIA (Zac 9:1-8). GOD'S PEOPLE SAFE BECAUSE HER COMETH LOWLY, BUT A SAVIOUR (Zac 9:9-10). THE MACCABEAN DELIVERANCE A TYPE THEREOF (Zac 9:11-17).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Ten men of all languages of the nations - Ten is the symbol of a whole, all the numbers before it meeting in it and starting again from it. The day of Pentecost was to be the reversal of the confusion of Babel; all were to have one voice, as God had said, "It (the time) shall come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see My glory" Isa 66:18. They shall lay hold of the skirt of one man who is a Jew - Jerome: "That is, of the Lord and Saviour, of whom it is said, "A prince shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until He shall come, for whom it is laid up, and for Him shall the Gentiles wait" Gen 49:8-10; for "there shall be a rod of Jesse, and He who shall arise to rule over the Gentiles, to Him shall the Gentiles seek" Isa 11:10. And when they shall lay hold of Him, they shall desire to tread in His steps, since God is with Him. Or else, whosoever shall believe out of all nations, shall lay hold of a man who is a Jew, the Apostles who are from the Jews, and shall say, Let us go with you; for we have known through the prophets and from the voice of all the Scriptures, that the Son of God, Christ, God and Lord, is with you. Where there is a most manifest prophecy, and the coming of Christ and His Apostles and the faith of all nations is preached, let us seek for nothing more." Cyril: "Christ turning our sorrow into joy and a feast and good days and gladness, and transferring lamentation into cheerfulness, the accession to the faith and union to God by sanctification in those called to salvation shall not henceforth be individually; but the cities shall exhort each other thereto, and all nations shall come in multitudes, the later ever calling out to those before them, "I too will go." For it is written, "iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a man the countenence of another" Pro 27:17. For the zeal of some is ever found to call forth others to fulfill what is good. But what is the aim proposed to the cities, that is, the Gentiles? "To entreat and to seek the face of the Lord," that is, Christ, who is the exact image of God the Father, and, as is written, "the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person" Heb 1:3, of whom also the divine David saith, "Shew Thy countenance to Thy servant" Psa 119:135. For the Image and Countenance of God the Father hath shone upon us. Having Him propitious and kind, we lay aside the injury from sin, being justified through faith, "not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to His great mercy" Tit 3:5. But how they shall come, he explains. By the ten men you are to understand time perfect number of those who come. For the number ten is the symbol of perfection. But that those of the Gentiles, who cleave to the holy Apostles, took in hand to go the same way with them, being justified by the faith in Christ, he sets evidently before us. For little children, if they would follow their fathers, lay hold of the hem of their dress, and, aided by the touch and hanging from their dress, walk steadily and safely. In like way, they too who "worshiped the creature rather than the Creator" Rom 1:25, choosing as their true fathers the bringers-in of the Gospel-doctrines, and joining themselves by like-mindedness to them, follow them, being still of childlike minds, and go the same way, ever showing themselves zealous followers of their life, and by continued progress advancing "to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" Eph 4:13. But why do they follow them? Being persuaded that God is with them, that is, Emmanuel, God with us. But that this calling belongs not only to those of the blood of Israel but to all nations throughout the world, he indicated by saying, that those who laid hold of that hem should be of all languages. But when were the nations called to the knowledge of the truth, and when did they desire to seek the face of the Lord and to entreat it, and to go the same way, as it were, as the holy Apostles, except when the Only-Begotten came to us, who is "the expectations of the nations" Gen 49:10; to whom also the divine David singeth, "All the naions, whom Thou hast made, shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord?" Psa 86:9. For the multitude of the nations also is saved through Him." The startling condescension of this passage is, that our Lord is spoken of as "a man, a Jew." Yet of His human Nature it is not only the simple truth, but essential to the truth. Pilate said to Him in scorn, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered Thee unto me" Joh 18:35. But it was essential to the fulfillment of God's promises. The Christ was to be "the Son of David" Mat 1:1; Mat 22:42. "Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the linen of Bethlehem, where David was?" Joh 7:42. David, "being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne Act 2:30; "Of this man's seed hath God, according to promise, raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus" Act 13:23. Whence Paul begins his great doctrinal Epistle with this contrast, "the Gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power" Rom 1:1-4. He was that "one Man among a thousand, whom Solomon says, I found; but a woman among all those have I not found" Ecc 7:28; the one in the whole human race. It was fulfilled in the very letter when "they brought to Him all that were diseased, and besought Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole" Mat 14:35-36. "The whole multitude sought to touch Him, for there went virtue out of Him and healed all" (Luk 6:19, add Luk 8:46; Mar 5:30). Even the Jews saw the reference to the Messiah. : "All nations shall come, falling on their faces before the Messiah and the Israelites, saying, Grant, that we may be Thy servants and of Israel. For as relates to the doctrine and the knowledge of the law, the Gentiles shall be their servants, according to that, "In those days ten men etc.""

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Ten men of all languages of the nations - Ten is the symbol of a whole, all the numbers before it meeting in it and starting again from it. The day of Pentecost was to be the reversal of the confusion of Babel; all were to have one voice, as God had said, "It (the time) shall come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see My glory" Isa 66:18.

They shall lay hold of the skirt of one man who is a Jew - Jerome: "That is, of the Lord and Saviour, of whom it is said, "A prince shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until He shall come, for whom it is laid up, and for Him shall the Gentiles wait" Gen 49:8-10; for "there shall be a rod of Jesse, and He who shall arise to rule over the Gentiles, to Him shall the Gentiles seek" Isa 11:10. And when they shall lay hold of Him, they shall desire to tread in His steps, since God is with Him. Or else, whosoever shall believe out of all nations, shall lay hold of a man who is a Jew, the Apostles who are from the Jews, and shall say, Let us go with you; for we have known through the prophets and from the voice of all the Scriptures, that the Son of God, Christ, God and Lord, is with you. Where there is a most manifest prophecy, and the coming of Christ and His Apostles and the faith of all nations is preached, let us seek for nothing more."

Cyril: "Christ turning our sorrow into joy and a feast and good days and gladness, and transferring lamentation into cheerfulness, the accession to the faith and union to God by sanctification in those called to salvation shall not henceforth be individually; but the cities shall exhort each other thereto, and all nations shall come in multitudes, the later ever calling out to those before them, "I too will go." For it is written, "iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a man the countenence of another" Pro 27:17. For the zeal of some is ever found to call forth others to fulfill what is good. But what is the aim proposed to the cities, that is, the Gentiles? "To entreat and to seek the face of the Lord," that is, Christ, who is the exact image of God the Father, and, as is written, "the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His Person" Heb 1:3, of whom also the divine David saith, "Shew Thy countenance to Thy servant" Psa 119:135.

For the Image and Countenance of God the Father hath shone upon us. Having Him propitious and kind, we lay aside the injury from sin, being justified through faith, "not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to His great mercy" Tit 3:5. But how they shall come, he explains. By the ten men you are to understand time perfect number of those who come. For the number ten is the symbol of perfection. But that those of the Gentiles, who cleave to the holy Apostles, took in hand to go the same way with them, being justified by the faith in Christ, he sets evidently before us. For little children, if they would follow their fathers, lay hold of the hem of their dress, and, aided by the touch and hanging from their dress, walk steadily and safely. In like way, they too who "worshiped the creature rather than the Creator" Rom 1:25, choosing as their true fathers the bringers-in of the Gospel-doctrines, and joining themselves by like-mindedness to them, follow them, being still of childlike minds, and go the same way, ever showing themselves zealous followers of their life, and by continued progress advancing "to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" Eph 4:13.

But why do they follow them? Being persuaded that God is with them, that is, Emmanuel, God with us. But that this calling belongs not only to those of the blood of Israel but to all nations throughout the world, he indicated by saying, that those who laid hold of that hem should be of all languages. But when were the nations called to the knowledge of the truth, and when did they desire to seek the face of the Lord and to entreat it, and to go the same way, as it were, as the holy Apostles, except when the Only-Begotten came to us, who is "the expectations of the nations" Gen 49:10; to whom also the divine David singeth, "All the naions, whom Thou hast made, shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord?" Psa 86:9. For the multitude of the nations also is saved through Him."

The startling condescension of this passage is, that our Lord is spoken of as "a man, a Jew." Yet of His human Nature it is not only the simple truth, but essential to the truth. Pilate said to Him in scorn, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered Thee unto me" Joh 18:35. But it was essential to the fulfillment of God's promises. The Christ was to be "the Son of David" Mat 1:1; Mat 22:42. "Hath not the Scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the linen of Bethlehem, where David was?" Joh 7:42. David, "being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne Act 2:30; "Of this man's seed hath God, according to promise, raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus" Act 13:23. Whence Paul begins his great doctrinal Epistle with this contrast, "the Gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power" Rom 1:1-4. He was that "one Man among a thousand, whom Solomon says, I found; but a woman among all those have I not found" Ecc 7:28; the one in the whole human race. It was fulfilled in the very letter when "they brought to Him all that were diseased, and besought Him that they might only touch the hem of His garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole" Mat 14:35-36. "The whole multitude sought to touch Him, for there went virtue out of Him and healed all" (Luk 6:19, add Luk 8:46; Mar 5:30).

Even the Jews saw the reference to the Messiah. : "All nations shall come, falling on their faces before the Messiah and the Israelites, saying, Grant, that we may be Thy servants and of Israel. For as relates to the doctrine and the knowledge of the law, the Gentiles shall be their servants, according to that, "In those days ten men etc.""

The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]
those days That is, in the days when Jerusalem has been made the centre of the earth's worship. (Zac 8:23) explains: the Jew (see "Remnant," (Isa 1:9); (Rom 11:5) will then be the missionary, and to the very "nations" now called "Christian"!

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days ten men out of all languages of the nations take hold; they will take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard God is with you." Not only will the heathen then flow to Jerusalem to seek the God of Israel, but they will crowd together to Israel and Judah to be received into fellowship with them as a nation. Ten men from the heathen nations to one Jewish man: so great will be the pressure of the heathen. Ten is used as an indefinite number, denoting a great and complete multitude, as in Gen 31:7; Lev 26:26; Num 14:22, and Sa1 1:8. For the figure, compare Isa 4:1. והחזיקוּ is a resumption of יחזיקוּ in the form of an apodosis. The unusual combination כּל לשׁנות הגּוים, "all the tongues of the nations," is formed after Isa 66:18 (הגּוים והלּשׁנות, "all nations and tongues," i.e., nations of all languages), and on the basis of Gen 10:20 and Gen 10:31. For נלכה עמּכם, compare Rut 1:16; and for אלהים עמּכם, Ch2 15:9. The promise, that the Lord would change the fast-days in the future into days of rejoicing and cheerful feasts, if Israel only loved truth and peace (Zac 8:20), when taken in connection with what is said in Zac 7:5-6 concerning fasting, left the decision of the question, whether the fast-days were to be given up or to be still observed, in the hands of the people. We have no historical information as to the course adopted by the inhabitants of Judah in consequence of the divine answer. All that we know is, that even to the present day the Jews observe the four disastrous days as days of national mourning. The talmudic tradition in Rosh-hashana (f. 18, a, b), that the four fast-days were abolished in consequence of the answer of Jehovah, and were not restored again till after the destruction of the second temple, is not only very improbable, but is no doubt erroneous, inasmuch as, although the restoration of the days for commemorating the destruction of Jerusalem and the burning of the temple could easily be explained, on the supposition that the second destruction occurred at the same time as the first, it is not so easy to explain the restoration of the fast-days in commemoration of events for which there was no link of connection whatever in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. In all probability, the matter stands rather thus: that after the receipt of this verbal answer, the people did not venture formally to abolish the fast-days before the appearance of the promised salvation, but let them remain, even if they were not always strictly observed; and that at a later period the Jews, who rejected the Messiah, began again to observe them with greater stringency after the second destruction of Jerusalem, and continue to do so to the present time, not because "the prophecy of the glory intended for Israel (Zac 8:18-23) is still unfulfilled" (Koehler), but because "blindness in part is happened to Israel," so that it has not discerned the fulfilment, which commenced with the appearance of Christ upon earth.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Ten men - That is, many men. All languages - No nation is any longer excluded. A Jew - To whom the gospel was first preached. We have heard - And now see, and are assured. That God - The true God, the only true God, whom to know is life eternal.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Ten men - shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew - The converts from among the Gentiles shall be to the Jews as ten to one. But ten may here signify a great number, without comparison. And from this scripture it appears as if the Jews, converted to God, should be the instruments of converting many Gentiles. See on Isa 3:6 (note). Catching hold of the skirt is a gesture naturally used to entreat assistance and protection. This and the three foregoing verses, says Abp. Newcome, refer to the great accession of converts which the Jewish Church received between the captivity and the coming of Christ; to the number of Christian disciples which the Jewish preachers made, and to the future conversions of which the restoration of the Jews will be an eminent cause.

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¹¹ As for thee also, by the blood [01818] of thy covenant [01285] I have sent forth [07971] thy prisoners [0615] out of the pit [0953] wherein is no water [04325].
¹² Turn [07725] you to the strong hold [01225], ye prisoners [0615] of hope [08615]: even to day [03117] do I declare [05046] that I will render [07725] double [04932] unto thee;
¹³ When I have bent [01869] Judah [03063] for me, filled [04390] the bow [07198] with Ephraim [0669], and raised up [05782] thy sons [01121], O Zion [06726], against thy sons [01121], O Greece [03120], and made [07760] thee as the sword [02719] of a mighty man [01368].
¹⁴ And the LORD [03068] shall be seen [07200] over them, and his arrow [02671] shall go forth [03318] as the lightning [01300]: and the Lord [0136] GOD [03069] shall blow [08628] the trumpet [07782], and shall go [01980] with whirlwinds [05591] of the south [08486].
¹⁵ The LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] shall defend [01598] them; and they shall devour [0398], and subdue [03533] with sling [07050] stones [068]; and they shall drink [08354], and make a noise [01993] as through wine [03196]; and they shall be filled [04390] like bowls [04219], and as the corners [02106] of the altar [04196].
¹⁶ And the LORD [03068] their God [0430] shall save [03467] them in that day [03117] as the flock [06629] of his people [05971]: for they shall be as the stones [068] of a crown [05145], lifted up as an ensign [05264] upon his land [0127].
¹⁷ For how great is his goodness [02898], and how great is his beauty [03308]! corn [01715] shall make the young men [0970] cheerful [05107], and new wine [08492] the maids [01330].

⁹ Rejoice [01523] greatly [03966], O daughter [01323] of Zion [06726]; shout [07321], O daughter [01323] of Jerusalem [03389]: behold, thy King [04428] cometh [0935] unto thee: he is just [06662], and having salvation [03467]; lowly [06041], and riding [07392] upon an ass [02543], and upon a colt [05895] the foal [01121] of an ass [0860].
¹⁰ And I will cut off [03772] the chariot [07393] from Ephraim [0669], and the horse [05483] from Jerusalem [03389], and the battle [04421] bow [07198] shall be cut off [03772]: and he shall speak [01696] peace [07965] unto the heathen [01471]: and his dominion [04915] shall be from sea [03220] even to sea [03220], and from the river [05104] even to the ends [0657] of the earth [0776].

¹ The burden [04853] of the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] in the land [0776] of Hadrach [02317], and Damascus [01834] shall be the rest [04496] thereof: when the eyes [05869] of man [0120], as of all the tribes [07626] of Israel [03478], shall be toward the LORD [03068].
² And Hamath [02574] also shall border [01379] thereby; Tyrus [06865], and Zidon [06721], though it be very [03966] wise [02449].
³ And Tyrus [06865] did build [01129] herself a strong hold [04692], and heaped up [06651] silver [03701] as the dust [06083], and fine gold [02742] as the mire [02916] of the streets [02351].
⁴ Behold, the Lord [0136] will cast her out [03423], and he will smite [05221] her power [02428] in the sea [03220]; and she shall be devoured [0398] with fire [0784].
⁵ Ashkelon [0831] shall see [07200] it, and fear [03372]; Gaza [05804] also shall see it, and be very [03966] sorrowful [02342], and Ekron [06138]; for her expectation [04007] shall be ashamed [03001]; and the king [04428] shall perish [06] from Gaza [05804], and Ashkelon [0831] shall not be inhabited [03427].
⁶ And a bastard [04464] shall dwell [03427] in Ashdod [0795], and I will cut off [03772] the pride [01347] of the Philistines [06430].
⁷ And I will take away [05493] his blood [01818] out of his mouth [06310], and his abominations [08251] from between his teeth [08127]: but he that remaineth [07604], even he, shall be for our God [0430], and he shall be as a governor [0441] in Judah [03063], and Ekron [06138] as a Jebusite [02983].
⁸ And I will encamp [02583] about mine house [01004] because of the army [04675], because of him that passeth by [05674], and because of him that returneth [07725]: and no oppressor [05065] shall pass through [05674] them any more: for now have I seen [07200] with mine eyes [05869].

²⁵ And [2532] thus [3779] are [1096] the secrets [2927] of his [846] heart [2588] made [1096] manifest [5318]; and [2532] so [3779] falling down [4098] on [1909] his face [4383] he will worship [4352] God [2316], and report [518] that [3754] God [2316] is [2076] in [1722] you [5213] of a truth [3689].

¹² Thou shalt make [06213] thee fringes [01434] upon the four [0702] quarters [03671] of thy vesture [03682], wherewith thou coverest [03680] thyself.

³⁸ Speak [01696] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478], and bid [0559] them that they make [06213] them fringes [06734] in the borders [03671] of their garments [0899] throughout their generations [01755], and that they put [05414] upon the fringe [06734] of the borders [03671] a ribband [06616] of blue [08504]:

¹ And in that day [03117] seven [07651] women [0802] shall take hold [02388] of one [0259] man [0376], saying [0559], We will eat [0398] our own bread [03899], and wear [03847] our own apparel [08071]: only let us be called [07121] by thy name [08034], to take away [0622] our reproach [02781].

⁶ When a man [0376] shall take hold [08610] of his brother [0251] of the house [01004] of his father [01], saying, Thou hast clothing [08071], be thou our ruler [07101], and let this ruin [04384] be under thy hand [03027]:

⁹ After [3326] this [5023] I beheld [1492], and [2532], lo [2400], a great [4183] multitude [3793], which [3739] no man [3762] could [1410] number [705] [846], of [1537] all [3956] nations [1484], and [2532] kindreds [5443], and [2532] people [2992], and [2532] tongues [1100], stood [2476] before [1799] the throne [2362], and [2532] before [1799] the Lamb [721], clothed [4016] with white [3022] robes [4749], and [2532] palms [5404] in [1722] their [846] hands [5495];

¹⁸ For I know their works [04639] and their thoughts [04284]: it shall come [0935], that I will gather [06908] all nations [01471] and tongues [03956]; and they shall come [0935], and see [07200] my glory [03519].

²² Because all those men [0582] which have seen [07200] my glory [03519], and my miracles [0226], which I did [06213] in Egypt [04714] and in the wilderness [04057], and have tempted [05254] [0853] me now these ten [06235] times [06471], and have not hearkened [08085] to my voice [06963];

²⁶ And the LORD [03068] spake [01696] unto Moses [04872], saying [0559],

³⁰ And [2532] Jesus [2424], immediately [2112] knowing [1921] in [1722] himself [1438] that virtue [1411] had gone [1831] out of [1537] him [846], turned him about [1994] in [1722] the press [3793], and said [3004], Who [5101] touched [680] my [3450] clothes [2440]?

⁴⁶ And [1161] Jesus [2424] said [2036], Somebody [5100] hath touched [680] me [3450]: for [1063] I [1473] perceive [1097] that virtue [1411] is gone [1831] out of [575] me [1700].

¹⁹ And [2532] the whole [3956] multitude [3793] sought [2212] to touch [680] him [846]: for [3754] there went [1831] virtue [1411] out [3844] of him [846], and [2532] healed [2390] them all [3956].

³⁵ And [2532] when the men [435] of that [1565] place [5117] had knowledge [1921] of him [846], they sent out [649] into [1519] all [3650] that [1565] country round about [4066], and [2532] brought [4374] unto him [846] all [3956] that were [2192] diseased [2560];
³⁶ And [2532] besought [3870] him [846] that [2443] they might [680] only [3440] touch [680] the hem [2899] of his [846] garment [2440]: and [2532] as many as [3745] touched [680] were made perfectly whole [1295].

²⁸ Which yet my soul [05315] seeketh [01245], but I find [04672] not: one [0259] man [0120] among a thousand [0505] have I found [04672]; but a woman [0802] among all those have I not found [04672].

¹ Paul [3972], a servant [1401] of Jesus [2424] Christ [5547], called [2822] to be an apostle [652], separated [873] unto [1519] the gospel [2098] of God [2316],
² (Which [3739] he had promised afore [4279] by [1223] his [846] prophets [4396] in [1722] the holy [40] scriptures [1124],)
³ Concerning [4012] his [846] Son [5207] Jesus [2424] Christ [5547] our [2257] Lord [2962], which [3588] was made [1096] of [1537] the seed [4690] of David [1138] according [2596] to the flesh [4561];
⁴ And declared [3724] to be the Son [5207] of God [2316] with [1722] power [1411], according [2596] to the spirit [4151] of holiness [42], by [1537] the resurrection [386] from the dead [3498]:

²³ Of [575] this man's [5127] seed [4690] hath [1453] God [2316] according [2596] to his promise [1860] raised [1453] unto Israel [2474] a Saviour [4990], Jesus [2424]:

³⁰ Therefore [3767] being [5225] a prophet [4396], and [2532] knowing [1492] that [3754] God [2316] had sworn [3660] with an oath [3727] to him [846], that of [1537] the fruit [2590] of his [846] loins [3751], according to [2596] the flesh [4561], he would raise up [450] Christ [5547] to sit [2523] on [1909] his [846] throne [2362];

⁴² Hath not [3780] the scripture [1124] said [2036], That [3754] Christ [5547] cometh [2064] of [1537] the seed [4690] of David [1138], and [2532] out of [575] the town [2968] of Bethlehem [965], where [3699] David [1138] was [2258]?

⁴² Saying [3004], What [5101] think [1380] ye [5213] of [4012] Christ [5547]? whose [5101] son [5207] is he [2076]? They say [3004] unto him [846], The Son of David [1138].

¹ The book [976] of the generation [1078] of Jesus [2424] Christ [5547], the son [5207] of David [1138], the son [5207] of Abraham [11].

³⁵ Pilate [4091] answered [611], [3385] Am [1510] I [1473] a Jew [2453]? Thine own [4674] nation [1484] and [2532] the chief priests [749] have delivered [3860] thee [4571] unto me [1698]: what [5101] hast thou done [4160]?

⁹ All nations [01471] whom thou hast made [06213] shall come [0935] and worship [07812] before [06440] thee, O Lord [0136]; and shall glorify [03513] thy name [08034].

¹⁰ The sceptre [07626] shall not depart [05493] from Judah [03063], nor a lawgiver [02710] from between his feet [07272], until [03588] Shiloh [07886] come [0935]; and unto him shall the gathering [03349] of the people [05971] be.

¹³ Till [3360] we all [3956] come [2658] in [1519] the unity [1775] of the faith [4102], and [2532] of the knowledge [1922] of the Son [5207] of God [2316], unto [1519] a perfect [5046] man [435], unto [1519] the measure [3358] of the stature [2244] of the fulness [4138] of Christ [5547]:

²⁵ Who [3748] changed [3337] the truth [225] of God [2316] into [1722] a lie [5579], and [2532] worshipped [4573] and [2532] served [3000] the creature [2937] more than [3844] the Creator [2936], who [3739] is [2076] blessed [2128] for [1519] ever [165]. Amen [281].

⁵ Not [3756] by [1537] works [2041] of [1722] righteousness [1343] which [3739] we [2249] have done [4160], but [235] according to [2596] his [846] mercy [1656] he saved [4982] us [2248], by [1223] the washing [3067] of regeneration [3824], and [2532] renewing [342] of the Holy [40] Ghost [4151];

¹³⁵ Make thy face [06440] to shine [0215] upon thy servant [05650]; and teach [03925] me thy statutes [02706].

³ Who [3739] being [5607] the brightness [541] of his glory [1391], and [2532] the express image [5481] of his [846] person [5287], and [5037] upholding [5342] all things [3956] by the word [4487] of his [846] power [1411], when he had [4160] [2512] by [1223] himself [1438] purged [4160] [2512] our [2257] sins [266], sat down [2523] on [1722] the right hand [1188] of the Majesty [3172] on [1722] high [5308];

¹⁷ Iron [01270] sharpeneth [02300] iron [01270]; so a man [0376] sharpeneth [02300] the countenance [06440] of his friend [07453].

¹⁰ And in that day [03117] there shall be a root [08328] of Jesse [03448], which shall stand [05975] for an ensign [05251] of the people [05971]; to it shall the Gentiles [01471] seek [01875]: and his rest [04496] shall be glorious [03519].

⁸ Judah [03063], thou art he whom thy brethren [0251] shall praise [03034]: thy hand [03027] shall be in the neck [06203] of thine enemies [0341]; thy father's [01] children [01121] shall bow down [07812] before thee.
⁹ Judah [03063] is a lion's [0738] whelp [01482]: from the prey [02964], my son [01121], thou art gone up [05927]: he stooped down [03766], he couched [07257] as a lion [0738], and as an old lion [03833]; who shall rouse him up [06965]?
¹⁰ The sceptre [07626] shall not depart [05493] from Judah [03063], nor a lawgiver [02710] from between his feet [07272], until [03588] Shiloh [07886] come [0935]; and unto him shall the gathering [03349] of the people [05971] be.

⁵ Even so [3779] then [3767] at [1722] this present [3568] time [2540] also [2532] there is [1096] a remnant [3005] according [2596] to the election [1589] of grace [5485].

⁹ Except [03884] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] had left [03498] unto us a very small [04592] remnant [08300], we should have been [01961] as Sodom [05467], and we should have been like [01819] unto Gomorrah [06017].

²³ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; In those days [03117] it shall come to pass, that ten [06235] men [0582] shall take hold [02388] out of all languages [03956] of the nations [01471], even shall take hold [02388] of the skirt [03671] of him that is a Jew [0376] [03064], saying [0559], We will go [03212] with you: for we have heard [08085] that God [0430] is with you.

¹⁸ And the word [01697] of the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] came unto me, saying [0559],
¹⁹ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; The fast [06685] of the fourth [07243] month, and the fast [06685] of the fifth [02549], and the fast [06685] of the seventh [07637], and the fast [06685] of the tenth [06224], shall be to the house [01004] of Judah [03063] joy [08342] and gladness [08057], and cheerful [02896] feasts [04150]; therefore love [0157] the truth [0571] and peace [07965].
²⁰ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come [0935] people [05971], and the inhabitants [03427] of many [07227] cities [05892]:
²¹ And the inhabitants [03427] of one [0259] city shall go [01980] to another [0259], saying [0559], Let us go [03212] speedily [01980] to pray [02470] before [06440] the LORD [03068], and to seek [01245] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]: I will go [03212] also.
²² Yea, many [07227] people [05971] and strong [06099] nations [01471] shall come [0935] to seek [01245] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635] in Jerusalem [03389], and to pray [02470] before [06440] the LORD [03068].
²³ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; In those days [03117] it shall come to pass, that ten [06235] men [0582] shall take hold [02388] out of all languages [03956] of the nations [01471], even shall take hold [02388] of the skirt [03671] of him that is a Jew [0376] [03064], saying [0559], We will go [03212] with you: for we have heard [08085] that God [0430] is with you.

⁵ Speak [0559] unto all the people [05971] of the land [0776], and to the priests [03548], saying [0559], When ye fasted [06684] and mourned [05594] in the fifth [02549] and seventh [07637] month, even those seventy [07657] years [08141], did ye at all [06684] fast [06684] unto me, even to me?
⁶ And when ye did eat [0398], and when ye did drink [08354], did not ye eat [0398] for yourselves, and drink [08354] for yourselves?

²⁰ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635]; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come [0935] people [05971], and the inhabitants [03427] of many [07227] cities [05892]:

⁹ And he gathered [06908] all Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144], and the strangers [01481] with them out of Ephraim [0669] and Manasseh [04519], and out of Simeon [08095]: for they fell [05307] to him out of Israel [03478] in abundance [07230], when they saw [07200] that the LORD [03068] his God [0430] was with him.

¹⁶ And Ruth [07327] said [0559], Intreat [06293] me not to leave [05800] thee, or to return [07725] from following after [0310] thee: for whither thou goest [03212], I will go [03212]; and where thou lodgest [03885], I will lodge [03885]: thy people [05971] shall be my people [05971], and thy God [0430] my God [0430]:

³¹ These are the sons [01121] of Shem [08035], after their families [04940], after their tongues [03956], in their lands [0776], after their nations [01471].

²⁰ These are the sons [01121] of Ham [02526], after their families [04940], after their tongues [03956], in their countries [0776], and in their nations [01471].

⁸ Then said [0559] Elkanah [0511] her husband [0376] to her, Hannah [02584], why weepest [01058] thou? and why eatest [0398] thou not? and why is thy heart [03824] grieved [03415]? am not I better [02896] to thee than ten [06235] sons [01121]?

²⁶ And when I have broken [07665] the staff [04294] of your bread [03899], ten [06235] women [0802] shall bake [0644] your bread [03899] in one [0259] oven [08574], and they shall deliver [07725] you your bread [03899] again [07725] by weight [04948]: and ye shall eat [0398], and not be satisfied [07646].

⁷ And your father [01] hath deceived [02048] me, and changed [02498] my wages [04909] ten [06235] times [04489]; but God [0430] suffered him [05414] not to hurt [07489] me [05978].