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Zechariah
Chapter 1
1 In the eighth month,
in the second year of Darius,
came the word of the LORD unto
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
2 The LORD hath been sore
displeased with your fathers.
3 Therefore say thou unto
them, Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the
LORD of hosts, and I will turn
unto you, saith the LORD of
hosts.
4 Be ye not as your
fathers, unto whom the former
prophets have cried, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye
now from your evil ways, and from
your evil doings: but they did
not hear, nor hearken unto me,
saith the LORD.
5 Your fathers, where are
they? and the prophets, do they
live for ever?
6 But my words and my
statutes, which I commanded my
servants the prophets, did they
not take hold of your fathers?
and they returned and said, Like
as the LORD of hosts thought to
do unto us, according to our
ways, and according to our
doings, so hath he dealt with
us.
7 Upon the four and
twentieth day of the eleventh
month, which is the month Sebat,
in the second year of Darius,
came the word of the LORD unto
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
8 I saw by night, and
behold a man riding upon a red
horse, and he stood among the
myrtle trees that were in the
bottom; and behind him were there
red horses, speckled, and
white.
9 Then said I, O my lord,
what are these? And the angel
that talked with me said unto me,
I will shew thee what these
be.
10 And the man that stood
among the myrtle trees answered
and said, These are they whom the
LORD hath sent to walk to and fro
through the earth.
11 And they answered the
angel of the LORD that stood
among the myrtle trees, and said,
We have walked to and fro through
the earth, and, behold, all the
earth sitteth still, and is at
rest.
12 Then the angel of the
LORD answered and said, O LORD of
hosts, how long wilt thou not
have mercy on Jerusalem and on
the cities of Judah, against
which thou hast had indignation
these threescore and ten
years?
13 And the LORD answered
the angel that talked with me
with good words and comfortable
words.
14 So the angel that
communed with me said unto me,
Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a
great jealousy.
15 And I am very sore
displeased with the heathen that
are at ease: for I was but a
little displeased, and they
helped forward the
affliction.
16 Therefore thus saith
the LORD; I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies: my house
shall be built in it, saith the
LORD of hosts, and a line shall
be stretched forth upon
Jerusalem.
17 Cry yet, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; My
cities through prosperity shall
yet be spread abroad; and the
LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and
shall yet choose Jerusalem.
18 Then lifted I up mine
eyes, and saw, and behold four
horns.
19 And I said unto the
angel that talked with me, What
be these? And he answered me,
These are the horns which have
scattered Judah, Israel, and
Jerusalem.
20 And the LORD shewed me
four carpenters.
21 Then said I, What come
these to do? And he spake,
saying, These are the horns which
have scattered Judah, so that no
man did lift up his head: but
these are come to fray them, to
cast out the horns of the
Gentiles, which lifted up their
horn over the land of Judah to
scatter it.
Chapter 2
1 I lifted up mine eyes
again, and looked, and behold a
man with a measuring line in his
hand.
2 Then said I, Whither
goest thou? And he said unto me,
To measure Jerusalem, to see what
is the breadth thereof, and what
is the length thereof.
3 And, behold, the angel
that talked with me went forth,
and another angel went out to
meet him,
4 And said unto him, Run,
speak to this young man, saying,
Jerusalem shall be inhabited as
towns without walls for the
multitude of men and cattle
therein:
5 For I, saith the LORD,
will be unto her a wall of fire
round about, and will be the
glory in the midst of her.
6 Ho, ho, come forth, and
flee from the land of the north,
saith the LORD: for I have spread
you abroad as the four winds of
the heaven, saith the LORD.
7 Deliver thyself, O Zion,
that dwellest with the daughter
of Babylon.
8 For thus saith the LORD
of hosts; After the glory hath he
sent me unto the nations which
spoiled you: for he that toucheth
you toucheth the apple of his
eye.
9 For, behold, I will
shake mine hand upon them, and
they shall be a spoil to their
servants: and ye shall know that
the LORD of hosts hath sent
me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O
daughter of Zion: for, lo, I
come, and I will dwell in the
midst of thee, saith the
LORD.
11 And many nations shall
be joined to the LORD in that
day, and shall be my people: and
I will dwell in the midst of
thee, and thou shalt know that
the LORD of hosts hath sent me
unto thee.
12 And the LORD shall
inherit Judah his portion in the
holy land, and shall choose
Jerusalem again.
13 Be silent, O all flesh,
before the LORD: for he is raised
up out of his holy
habitation.
Chapter 3
1 And he shewed me
Joshua the high priest standing
before the angel of the LORD, and
Satan standing at his right hand
to resist him.
2 And the LORD said unto
Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O
Satan; even the LORD that hath
chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is
not this a brand plucked out of
the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed
with filthy garments, and stood
before the angel.
4 And he answered and
spake unto those that stood
before him, saying, Take away the
filthy garments from him. And
unto him he said, Behold, I have
caused thine iniquity to pass
from thee, and I will clothe thee
with change of raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set
a fair mitre upon his head. So
they set a fair mitre upon his
head, and clothed him with
garments. And the angel of the
LORD stood by.
6 And the angel of the
LORD protested unto Joshua,
saying,
7 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; If thou wilt walk in my
ways, and if thou wilt keep my
charge, then thou shalt also
judge my house, and shalt also
keep my courts, and I will give
thee places to walk among these
that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the
high priest, thou, and thy
fellows that sit before thee: for
they are men wondered at: for,
behold, I will bring forth my
servant the BRANCH.
9 For behold the stone
that I have laid before Joshua;
upon one stone shall be seven
eyes: behold, I will engrave the
graving thereof, saith the LORD
of hosts, and I will remove the
iniquity of that land in one
day.
10 In that day, saith the
LORD of hosts, shall ye call
every man his neighbour under the
vine and under the fig tree.
Chapter 4
1 And the angel that
talked with me came again, and
waked me, as a man that is
wakened out of his sleep,
2 And said unto me, What
seest thou? And I said, I have
looked, and behold a candlestick
all of gold, with a bowl upon the
top of it, and his seven lamps
thereon, and seven pipes to the
seven lamps, which are upon the
top thereof:
3 And two olive trees by
it, one upon the right side of
the bowl, and the other upon the
left side thereof.
4 So I answered and spake
to the angel that talked with me,
saying, What are these, my
lord?
5 Then the angel that
talked with me answered and said
unto me, Knowest thou not what
these be? And I said, No, my
lord.
6 Then he answered and
spake unto me, saying, This is
the word of the LORD unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might,
nor by power, but by my spirit,
saith the LORD of hosts.
7 Who art thou, O great
mountain? before Zerubbabel thou
shalt become a plain: and he
shall bring forth the headstone
thereof with shoutings, crying,
Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel
have laid the foundation of this
house; his hands shall also
finish it; and thou shalt know
that the LORD of hosts hath sent
me unto you.
10 For who hath despised
the day of small things? for they
shall rejoice, and shall see the
plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel
with those seven; they are the
eyes of the LORD, which run to
and fro through the whole
earth.
11 Then answered I, and
said unto him, What are these two
olive trees upon the right side
of the candlestick and upon the
left side thereof?
12 And I answered again,
and said unto him, What be these
two olive branches which through
the two golden pipes empty the
golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and
said, Knowest thou not what these
be? And I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are
the two anointed ones, that stand
by the LORD of the whole
earth.
Chapter 5
1 Then I turned, and
lifted up mine eyes, and looked,
and behold a flying roll.
2 And he said unto me,
What seest thou? And I answered,
I see a flying roll; the length
thereof is twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof ten cubits.
3 Then said he unto me,
This is the curse that goeth
forth over the face of the whole
earth: for every one that
stealeth shall be cut off as on
this side according to it; and
every one that sweareth shall be
cut off as on that side according
to it.
4 I will bring it forth,
saith the LORD of hosts, and it
shall enter into the house of the
thief, and into the house of him
that sweareth falsely by my name:
and it shall remain in the midst
of his house, and shall consume
it with the timber thereof and
the stones thereof.
5 Then the angel that
talked with me went forth, and
said unto me, Lift up now thine
eyes, and see what is this that
goeth forth.
6 And I said, What is it?
And he said, This is an ephah
that goeth forth. He said
moreover, This is their
resemblance through all the
earth.
7 And, behold, there was
lifted up a talent of lead: and
this is a woman that sitteth in
the midst of the ephah.
8 And he said, This is
wickedness. And he cast it into
the midst of the ephah; and he
cast the weight of lead upon the
mouth thereof.
9 Then lifted I up mine
eyes, and looked, and, behold,
there came out two women, and the
wind was in their wings; for they
had wings like the wings of a
stork: and they lifted up the
ephah between the earth and the
heaven.
10 Then said I to the
angel that talked with me,
Whither do these bear the
ephah?
11 And he said unto me, To
build it an house in the land of
Shinar: and it shall be
established, and set there upon
her own base.
Chapter 6
1 And I turned, and
lifted up mine eyes, and looked,
and, behold, there came four
chariots out from between two
mountains; and the mountains were
mountains of brass.
2 In the first chariot
were red horses; and in the
second chariot black horses;
3 And in the third chariot
white horses; and in the fourth
chariot grisled and bay
horses.
4 Then I answered and said
unto the angel that talked with
me, What are these, my lord?
5 And the angel answered
and said unto me, These are the
four spirits of the heavens,
which go forth from standing
before the Lord of all the
earth.
6 The black horses which
are therein go forth into the
north country; and the white go
forth after them; and the grisled
go forth toward the south
country.
7 And the bay went forth,
and sought to go that they might
walk to and fro through the
earth: and he said, Get you
hence, walk to and fro through
the earth. So they walked to and
fro through the earth.
8 Then cried he upon me,
and spake unto me, saying,
Behold, these that go toward the
north country have quieted my
spirit in the north country.
9 And the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying,
10 Take of them of the
captivity, even of Heldai, of
Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which
are come from Babylon, and come
thou the same day, and go into
the house of Josiah the son of
Zephaniah;
11 Then take silver and
gold, and make crowns, and set
them upon the head of Joshua the
son of Josedech, the high
priest;
12 And speak unto him,
saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of
hosts, saying, Behold the man
whose name is The BRANCH; and he
shall grow up out of his place,
and he shall build the temple of
the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the
temple of the LORD; and he shall
bear the glory, and shall sit and
rule upon his throne; and he
shall be a priest upon his
throne: and the counsel of peace
shall be between them both.
14 And the crowns shall be
to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to
Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of
Zephaniah, for a memorial in the
temple of the LORD.
15 And they that are far
off shall come and build in the
temple of the LORD, and ye shall
know that the LORD of hosts hath
sent me unto you. And this shall
come to pass, if ye will
diligently obey the voice of the
LORD your God.
Chapter 7
1 And it came to pass
in the fourth year of king
Darius, that the word of the LORD
came unto Zechariah in the fourth
day of the ninth month, even in
Chisleu;
2 When they had sent unto
the house of God Sherezer and
Regem-melech, and their men, to
pray before the LORD,
3 And to speak unto the
priests which were in the house
of the LORD of hosts, and to the
prophets, saying, Should I weep
in the fifth month, separating
myself, as I have done these so
many years?
4 Then came the word of
the LORD of hosts unto me,
saying,
5 Speak unto all the
people of the land, and to the
priests, saying, When ye fasted
and mourned in the fifth and
seventh month, even those seventy
years, did ye at all fast unto
me, even to me?
6 And when ye did eat, and
when ye did drink, did not ye eat
for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves?
7 Should ye not hear the
words which the LORD hath cried
by the former prophets, when
Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and the cities
thereof round about her, when men
inhabited the south and the
plain?
8 And the word of the LORD
came unto Zechariah, saying,
9 Thus speaketh the LORD
of hosts, saying, Execute true
judgment, and shew mercy and
compassions every man to his
brother:
10 And oppress not the
widow, nor the fatherless, the
stranger, nor the poor; and let
none of you imagine evil against
his brother in your heart.
11 But they refused to
hearken, and pulled away the
shoulder, and stopped their ears,
that they should not hear.
12 Yea, they made their
hearts as an adamant stone, lest
they should hear the law, and the
words which the LORD of hosts
hath sent in his spirit by the
former prophets: therefore came a
great wrath from the LORD of
hosts.
13 Therefore it is come to
pass, that as he cried, and they
would not hear; so they cried,
and I would not hear, saith the
LORD of hosts:
14 But I scattered them
with a whirlwind among all the
nations whom they knew not. Thus
the land was desolate after them,
that no man passed through nor
returned: for they laid the
pleasant land desolate.
Chapter 8
1 Again the word of the
LORD of hosts came to me,
saying,
2 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; I was jealous for Zion
with great jealousy, and I was
jealous for her with great
fury.
3 Thus saith the LORD; I
am returned unto Zion, and will
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem:
and Jerusalem shall be called a
city of truth; and the mountain
of the LORD of hosts the holy
mountain.
4 Thus saith the LORD 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.
5 And the streets of the
city shall be full of boys and
girls playing in the streets
thereof.
6 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; If it be marvellous in the
eyes of the remnant of this
people in these days, should it
also be marvellous in mine eyes?
saith the LORD of hosts.
7 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Behold, I will save my
people from the east country, and
from the west country;
8 And I will bring them,
and they shall dwell in the midst
of Jerusalem: and they shall be
my people, and I will be their
God, in truth and in
righteousness.
9 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Let your hands be strong,
ye that hear in these days these
words by the mouth of the
prophets, which were in the day
that the foundation of the house
of the LORD of hosts was laid,
that the temple might be
built.
10 For before these days
there was no hire for man, nor
any hire for beast; neither was
there any peace to him that went
out or came in because of the
affliction: for I set all men
every one against his
neighbour.
11 But now I will not be
unto the residue of this people
as in the former days, saith the
LORD of hosts.
12 For the seed shall be
prosperous; the vine shall give
her fruit, and the ground shall
give her increase, and the
heavens shall give their dew; and
I will cause the remnant of this
people to possess all these
things.
13 And it shall come to
pass, that as ye were a curse
among the heathen, O house of
Judah, and house of Israel; so
will I save you, and ye shall be
a blessing: fear not, but let
your hands be strong.
14 For thus saith the LORD
of hosts; As I thought to punish
you, when your fathers provoked
me to wrath, saith the LORD of
hosts, and I repented not:
15 So again have I thought
in these days to do well unto
Jerusalem and to the house of
Judah: fear ye not.
16 These are the things
that ye shall do; Speak ye every
man the truth to his neighbour;
execute the judgment of truth and
peace in your gates:
17 And let none of you
imagine evil in your hearts
against his neighbour; and love
no false oath: for all these are
things that I hate, saith the
LORD.
18 And the word of the
LORD of hosts came unto me,
saying,
19 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; The fast of the fourth
month, and the fast of the fifth,
and the fast of the seventh, and
the fast of the tenth, shall be
to the house of Judah joy and
gladness, and cheerful feasts;
therefore love the truth and
peace.
20 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; It shall yet come to pass,
that there shall come people, and
the inhabitants of many
cities:
21 And the inhabitants of
one city shall go to another,
saying, Let us go speedily to
pray before the LORD, and to seek
the LORD of hosts: I will go
also.
22 Yea, many people and
strong nations shall come to seek
the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem,
and to pray before the LORD.
23 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.
Chapter 9
1 The burden of the
word of the LORD in the land of
Hadrach, and Damascus shall be
the rest thereof: when the eyes
of man, as of all the tribes of
Israel, shall be toward the
LORD.
2 And Hamath also shall
border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon,
though it be very wise.
3 And Tyrus did build
herself a strong hold, and heaped
up silver as the dust, and fine
gold as the mire of the
streets.
4 Behold, the Lord will
cast her out, and he will smite
her power in the sea; and she
shall be devoured with fire.
5 Ashkelon shall see it,
and fear; Gaza also shall see it,
and be very sorrowful, and Ekron;
for her expectation shall be
ashamed; and the king shall
perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon
shall not be inhabited.
6 And a bastard shall
dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut
off the pride of the
Philistines.
7 And I will take away his
blood out of his mouth, and his
abominations from between his
teeth: but he that remaineth,
even he, shall be for our God,
and he shall be as a governor in
Judah, and Ekron as a
Jebusite.
8 And I will encamp about
mine house because of the army,
because of him that passeth by,
and because of him that
returneth: and no oppressor shall
pass through them any more: for
now have I seen with mine
eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O
daughter of Zion; shout, O
daughter of Jerusalem: behold,
thy King cometh unto thee: he is
just, and having salvation;
lowly, and riding upon an ass,
and upon a colt the foal of an
ass.
10 And I will cut off the
chariot from Ephraim, and the
horse from Jerusalem, and the
battle bow shall be cut off: and
he shall speak peace unto the
heathen: and his dominion shall
be from sea even to sea, and from
river even to the ends of the
earth.
11 As for thee also, by
the blood of thy covenant I have
sent forth thy prisoners out of
the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong
hold, ye prisoners of hope: even
to day do I declare that I will
render double unto thee;
13 When I have bent Judah
for me, filled the bow with
Ephraim, and raised up thy sons,
O Zion, against thy sons, O
Greece, and made thee as the
sword of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be
seen over them, and his arrow
shall go forth as the lightning:
and the LORD GOD shall blow the
trumpet, and shall go with
whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall
defend them; and they shall
devour, and subdue with sling
stones; and they shall drink, and
make a noise as through wine; and
they shall be filled like bowls,
and as the corners of the
altar.
16 And the LORD their God
shall save them in that day as
the flock of his people: for they
shall be as the stones of a
crown, lifted up as an ensign
upon his land.
17 For how great is his
goodness, and how great is his
beauty! corn shall make the young
men cheerful, and new wine the
maids.
Chapter 10
1 Ask ye of the LORD
rain in the time of the latter
rain; so the LORD shall make
bright clouds, and give them
showers of rain, to every one
grass in the field.
2 For the idols have
spoken vanity, and the diviners
have seen a lie, and have told
false dreams; they comfort in
vain: therefore they went their
way as a flock, they were
troubled, because there was no
shepherd.
3 Mine anger was kindled
against the shepherds, and I
punished the goats: for the LORD
of hosts hath visited his flock
the house of Judah, and hath made
them as his goodly horse in the
battle.
4 Out of him came forth
the corner, out of him the nail,
out of him the battle bow, out of
him every oppressor together.
5 And they shall be as
mighty men, which tread down
their enemies in the mire of the
streets in the battle: and they
shall fight, because the LORD is
with them, and the riders on
horses shall be confounded.
6 And I will strengthen
the house of Judah, and I will
save the house of Joseph, and I
will bring them again to place
them; for I have mercy upon them:
and they shall be as though I had
not cast them off: for I am the
LORD their God, and will hear
them.
7 And they of Ephraim
shall be like a mighty man, and
their heart shall rejoice as
through wine: yea, their children
shall see it, and be glad; their
heart shall rejoice in the
LORD.
8 I will hiss for them,
and gather them; for I have
redeemed them: and they shall
increase as they have
increased.
9 And I will sow them
among the people: and they shall
remember me in far countries; and
they shall live with their
children, and turn again.
10 I will bring them again
also out of the land of Egypt,
and gather them out of Assyria;
and I will bring them into the
land of Gilead and Labanon; and
place shall not be found for
them.
11 And he shall pass
through the sea with affliction,
and shall smite the waves in the
sea, and all the deeps of the
river shall dry up: and the pride
of Assyria shall be brought down,
and the sceptre of Egypt shall
depart away.
12 And I will strengthen
them in the LORD; and they shall
walk up and down in his name,
saith the LORD.
Chapter 11
1 Open thy doors, O
Lebanon, that the fire may devour
thy cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the
cedar is fallen; because the
mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye
oaks of Bashan; for the forest of
the vintage is come down.
3 There is a voice of the
howling of the shepherds; for
their glory is spoiled: a voice
of the roaring of young lions;
for the pride of Jordan is
spoiled.
4 Thus saith the LORD my
God; Feed the flock of the
slaughter;
5 Whose possessors slay
them, and hold themselves not
guilty: and they that sell them
say, Blessed be the LORD; for I
am rich: and their own shepherds
pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity
the inhabitants of the land,
saith the LORD: but, lo, I will
deliver the men every one into
his neighbour's hand, and into
the hand of his king: and they
shall smite the land, and out of
their hand I will not deliver
them.
7 And I will feed the
flock of slaughter, even you, O
poor of the flock. And I took
unto me two staves; the one I
called Beauty, and the other I
called Bands; and I fed the
flock.
8 Three shepherds also I
cut off in one month; and my soul
lothed them, and their soul also
abhorred me.
9 Then said I, I will not
feed you: that that dieth, let it
die; and that that is to be cut
off, let it be cut off; and let
the rest eat every one the flesh
of another.
10 And I took my staff,
even Beauty, and cut it assunder,
that I might break my covenant
which I had made with all the
people.
11 And it was broken in
that day: and so the poor of the
flock that waited upon me knew
that it was the word of the
LORD.
12 And I said unto them,
If ye think good, give me my
price; and if not, forbear. So
they weighed for my price thirty
pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said unto
me, Cast it unto the potter: a
goodly price that I was prised at
of them. And I took the thirty
pieces of silver, and cast them
to the potter in the house of the
LORD.
14 Then I cut asunder mine
other staff, even Bands, that I
might break the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel.
15 And the LORD said unto
me, Take unto thee yet the
instruments of a foolish
shepherd.
16 For, lo, I will raise
up a shepherd in the land, which
shall not visit those that be cut
off, neither shall seek the young
one, nor heal that that is
broken, nor feed that that
standeth still: but he shall eat
the flesh of the fat, and tear
their claws in pieces.
17 Woe to the idol
shepherd that leaveth the flock!
the sword shall be upon his arm,
and upon his right eye: his arm
shall be clean dried up, and his
right eye shall be utterly
darkened.
Chapter 12
1 The burden of the
word of the LORD for Israel,
saith the LORD, which stretcheth
forth the heavens, and layeth the
foundation of the earth, and
formeth the spirit of man within
him.
2 Behold, I will make
Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto
all the people round about, when
they shall be in the siege both
against Judah and against
Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I
make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all people: all that burden
themselves with it shall be cut
in pieces, though all the people
of the earth be gathered together
against it.
4 In that day, saith the
LORD, I will smite every horse
with astonishment, and his rider
with madness: and I will open
mine eyes upon the house of
Judah, and will smite every horse
of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of
Judah shall say in their heart,
The inhabitants of Jerusalem
shall be my strength in the LORD
of hosts their God.
6 In that day will I make
the governors of Judah like an
hearth of fire among the wood,
and like a torch of fire in a
sheaf; and they shall devour all
the people round about, on the
right hand and on the left: and
Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place, even in
Jerusalem.
7 The LORD also shall save
the tents of Judah first, that
the glory of the house of David
and the glory of the inhabitants
of Jerusalem do not magnify
themselves against Judah.
8 In that day shall the
LORD defend the inhabitants of
Jerusalem; and he that is feeble
among them at that day shall be
as David; and the house of David
shall be as God, as the angel of
the LORD before them.
9 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that I will
seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.
10 And I will pour upon
the house of David, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall
look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for
him, as one mourneth for his only
son, and shall be in bitterness
for him, as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there
be a great mourning in Jerusalem,
as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in
the valley of Megiddon.
12 And the land shall
mourn, every family apart; the
family of the house of David
apart, and their wives apart; the
family of the house of Nathan
apart, and their wives apart;
13 The family of the house
of Levi apart, and their wives
apart; the family of Shimei
apart, and their wives apart;
14 All the families that
remain, every family apart, and
their wives apart.
Chapter 13
1 In that day there
shall be a fountain opened to the
house of David and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin
and for uncleanness.
2 And it shall come to
pass in that day, saith the LORD
of hosts, that I will cut off the
names of the idols out of the
land, and they shall no more be
remembered: and also I will cause
the prophets and the unclean
spirit to pass out of the
land.
3 And it shall come to
pass, that when any shall yet
prophesy, then his father and his
mother that begat him shall say
unto him, Thou shalt not live;
for thou speakest lies in the
name of the LORD: and his father
and his mother that begat him
shall thrust him through when he
prophesieth.
4 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the
prophets shall be ashamed every
one of his vision, when he hath
prophesied; neither shall they
wear a rough garment to
deceive:
5 But he shall say, I am
no prophet, I am an husbandman;
for man taught me to keep cattle
from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto
him, What are these wounds in
thine hands? Then he shall
answer, Those with which I was
wounded in the house of my
friends.
7 Awake, O sword, against
my shepherd, and against the man
that is my fellow, saith the LORD
of hosts: smite the shepherd, and
the sheep shall be scattered: and
I will turn mine hand upon the
little ones.
8 And it shall come to
pass, that in all the land, saith
the LORD, two parts therein shall
be cut off and die; but the third
shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the
third part through the fire, and
will refine them as silver is
refined, and will try them as
gold is tried: they shall call on
my name, and I will hear them: I
will say, It is my people: and
they shall say, The LORD is my
God.
Chapter 14
1 Behold, the day of
the LORD cometh, and thy spoil
shall be divided in the midst of
thee.
2 For I will gather all
nations against Jerusalem to
battle; and the city shall be
taken, and the houses rifled, and
the women ravished; and half of
the city shall go forth into
captivity, and the residue of the
people shall not be cut off from
the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go
forth, and fight against those
nations, as when he fought in the
day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand
in that day upon the mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem
on the east, and the mount of
Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and
toward the west, and there shall
be a very great valley; and half
of the mountain shall remove
toward the north, and half of it
toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the
valley of the mountains; for the
valley of the mountains shall
reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall
flee, like as ye fled from before
the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah: and the
LORD my God shall come, and all
the saints with thee.
6 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the light
shall not be clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day
which shall be known to the LORD,
not day, nor night: but it shall
come to pass, that at evening
time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that
day, that living waters shall go
out from Jerusalem; half of them
toward the former sea, and half
of them toward the hinder sea: in
summer and in winter shall it
be.
9 And the LORD shall be
king over all the earth: in that
day shall there be one LORD, and
his name one.
10 All the land shall be
turned as a plain from Geba to
Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it
shall be lifted up, and inhabited
in her place, from Benjamin's
gate unto the place of the first
gate, unto the corner gate, and
from the tower of Hananeel unto
the king's winepresses.
11 And men shall dwell in
it, and there shall be no more
utter destruction; but Jerusalem
shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the
plague wherewith the LORD will
smite all the people that have
fought against Jerusalem; Their
flesh shall consume away while
they stand upon their feet, and
their eyes shall consume away in
their holes, and their tongue
shall consume away in their
mouth.
13 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that a great
tumult from the LORD shall be
among them; and they shall lay
hold every one on the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall
rise up against the hand of his
neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall
fight at Jerusalem; and the
wealth of all the heathen round
about shall be gathered together,
gold, and silver, and apparel, in
great abundance.
15 And so shall be the
plague of the horse, of the mule,
of the camel, and of the ass, and
of all the beasts that shall be
in these tents, as this
plague.
16 And it shall come to
pass, that every one that is left
of all the nations which came
against Jerusalem shall even go
up from year to year to worship
the King, the LORD of hosts, and
to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that
whoso will not come up of all the
families of the earth unto
Jerusalem to worship the King,
the LORD of hosts, even upon them
shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of
Egypt go not up, and come not,
that have no rain; there shall be
the plague, wherewith the LORD
will smite the heathen that come
not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
19 This shall be the
punishment of Egypt, and the
punishment of all nations that
come not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
20 In that day shall there
be upon the bells of the horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the
pots in the LORD's house shall be
like the bowl's before the
altar.
21 Yea, every pot in
Jerusalem and in Judah shall be
holiness unto the LORD of hosts:
and all they that sacrifice shall
come and take of them, and seethe
therein: and in that day there
shall be no more the Canaanite in
the house of the LORD of
hosts.
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