Today is the 28th day of December. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian

it's great to be here in the week between right that week between Christmas and New Year's, where we start thinking about

bigger things and goals for our lives and it's important that we keep the scriptures the front and center of

our journey and so let's take the next step forward together as we do every day.

We are in the book of step forward together as we do every day.

We are in the Book of Zakaria as we wind down our way through the Old Testament, and today we will

read chapters 12 and 13.

In oracle, the word of the Lord concerning Israel.

This is what the Lord declares, who stretches out the heavens,

who lays the foundations of the earth, and who forms the spirit of a man within him. Look, I will make Jerusalem a cup that causes all the surrounding peoples to stagger.

When there is a siege against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.

On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples.

All who lift it will be seriously injured,

and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,

but I will keep my eye on the house of Judah, and I will

strike with blindness every horse that belongs to the other peoples. Each of the

leaders of the clans of Judah will say in his heart,

The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength through the Lord of armies, their God.

On that day I will make the leaders of the clans of Judah like a fire pot that ignites the woods and like a flaming torch among the sheaves

They will devour all the surrounding peoples on the right and on the left.

The people of Jerusalem will once again live in their own place in Jerusalem.

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