¹And he sheweth me Joshua the high priest standing before the messenger of Jehovah, and the Adversary standing at his right hand, to be an adversary to him. ²And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: ‘Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?’ ³And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and is standing before the messenger. ⁴And he answereth and speaketh unto those standing before him, saying: ‘Turn aside the filthy garments from off him.’ And he saith unto him, ‘See, I have caused thine iniquity to pass away from off thee, so as to clothe thee with costly apparel.’ ⁵He also said, ‘Let them set a pure diadem on his head.’ And they set the pure diadem on his head, and clothe him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah is standing, ⁶and the messenger of Jehovah doth protest to Joshua, saying:

⁷‘Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: If in My ways thou dost walk, And if My charge thou dost keep, Then also thou dost judge My house, And also thou dost keep My courts, And I have given to thee conductors among these standing by.

⁸Hear, I pray thee, Joshua, the high priest, Thou and thy companions sitting before thee, (For men of type are they,) For lo, I am bringing in My servant—a Shoot. ⁹For lo, the stone that I put before Joshua, On one stone are seven eyes, Lo, I am graving its graving, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have removed the iniquity of that land in one day. ¹⁰In that day—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do call, each unto his neighbour, Unto the place of the vine, And unto the place of the fig-tree!’

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