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Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls play ing in the streets thereof.'' This is not, as it is so often taken to be, a picture of heaven, but a picture of the literal Jerusalem in the glad day that is coming as the outcome of the Return of our Lord to this earth. Israel in that day shall be greatly exalted above the nations. We read in the 23d verse of this same chapter, ''Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days it shall come to vass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they 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" (Zech. 8:23). This same thought is more fully expressed in Is. 49 :22-23, ''Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my en sign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers; they shall bow down
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