God Will Bless Judah and Ephraim
Ask for arain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain.It is the LORD who bmakes the thunder clouds;And He will give them cshowers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.Joel 2:23Jer 10:13Is 30:232 For the ateraphim speak wickedness ,And the bdiviners see lying visionsAnd tell cfalse dreams;They comfort in vain.Therefore the people wander like dsheep,They are afflicted and suffer because there is no shepherd.Ezek 21:21; Hos 3:4Jer 27:9Jer 23:32Ezek 34:5, 8; Matt 9:36; Mark 6:343 “My aanger is kindled against the shepherds who are not true shepherds,And I shall punish the male goats ;For the LORD of hosts has bvisited His flock, the house of Judah ,And will make them like His beautiful and majestic horse in the battle. Ezek 34:1-10Jer 25:34-36Ezek 34:124 “From them shall come the 1aCornerstone,From them the tent peg,From them the bow of bbattle,From them every ruler, all of them together. Jer 30:21Probably Messianic, see the “Cornerstone” imagery of Ps 118:22, 23; Is 28:16; Matt 21:42; Acts 4:11; Eph 2:19-22; 1 Pet 2:6-8.Luke 20:17; Eph 2:20; 1 Pet 2:6Jer 51:20; Zech 9:105 “They will be like mighty menaTrampling down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle;And they will fight because the LORD is with them,And the enemies’ briders on horses will be shamed.2 Sam 22:43Amos 2:15; Hag 2:226 “I will astrengthen the house of Judah making it superior,And I will bsave the house of Joseph.I will cbring them back and allow them to live securely,Because I have had dcompassion on them.They will be as though I had enot rejected them,For I am the LORD their God, and I will flisten and answer them.Zech 10:12Zech 8:7; 9:16Zech 8:8Is 54:8; Zech 1:16Is 54:4Zech 13:97 “Then 1Ephraim will be like a mighty warrior,And their heart will rejoice as if from wine;Yes, their achildren will see it and rejoice;Their heart will rejoice and shout triumphantly in the LORD.A reference to the Northern Kingdom.Is 54:13; Ezek 37:258 “I will 1awhistle for them and gather them together,For I have redeemed them;And they will bincrease again as they chave increased before in Egypt. Ezek 36:10, 11Or hiss. From this verse a rabbinical tradition was invented that if a vulture settles on the ground and hisses, the Messiah will come immediately. It was reported to have happened once, but instead of the Messiah coming, the story went that a stone fell on the vulture’s head and killed it because it was a liar.Is 5:26; 7:18, 19Jer 33:22; Rev 7:9Jer 30:20; Ezek 36:119 “When I scatter them among the nations,They will aremember Me in far countries,And with their children they will live and come back to Me and the land I gave them.1 Kin 8:47, 48; Ezek 6:910 “I will abring them back home again from the land of EgyptAnd gather them from Assyria,And I will bring them into the land of bGilead and Lebanon the land on the east and on the west of the JordanUntil cno room can be found for them.Is 11:11Jer 50:19Is 49:19, 2011 “And they will pass through the asea of distress and anxiety with the LORD leading His people, as at the Red SeaAnd He will strike the waves in the sea,So that all the depths of the bNile will dry up;And the pride of cAssyria will be brought downAnd the dscepter of the taskmasters of Egypt will pass away.Is 51:9, 10Is 19:5-7Zeph 2:13Ezek 30:1312 “And I will astrengthen Israel in the LORD,And bthey will walk and glory in His name,” declares the LORD.Zech 10:6Mic 4:5