Zechariah
1:1In the eighth month, in the second year
of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, 1:2Jehovah was sore displeased with your
fathers. 1:3Therefore say thou unto them, Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will
return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. 1:4Be ye not as your
fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah
of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings:
but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah. 1:5Your
fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 1:6But
my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did
they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah
of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to
our doings, so hath he dealt with us. 1:7Upon the four and twentieth day of the
eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius,
came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of
Iddo, the prophet, saying, 1:8I saw in the 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 there were horses, red, sorrel, and white. 1:9Then
said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said
unto me, I will show thee what these are. 1:10And the man that stood
among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah hath
sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 1:11And they answered the
angel of Jehovah 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. 1:12Then the angel of Jehovah answered and
said, O Jehovah 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? 1:13And Jehovah answered the angel that
talked with me with good words, even comfortable words. 1:14So
the angel that talked with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great
jealousy. 1:15And I am very sore displeased with the
nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they
helped forward the affliction. 1:16Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I am
returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in it, saith
Jehovah of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem. 1:17Cry
yet again, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet
overflow with prosperity; and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall
yet choose Jerusalem. 1:18And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw,
and, behold, four horns. 1:19And I said unto the angel that talked
with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which
have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. 1:20And Jehovah showed me
four smiths. 1:21Then said I, What come these to do?
And he spake, saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that
no man did lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast
down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land
of Judah to scatter it.
2:1And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw,
and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2:2Then 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. 2:3And, behold, the angel
that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, 2:4and
said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be
inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and
cattle therein. 2:5For I, saith Jehovah, will be unto her
a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
2:6Ho, ho, flee from the land of the
north, saith Jehovah; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of
the heavens, saith Jehovah. 2:7Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest
with the daughter of Babylon. 2:8For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After
glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that
toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. 2:9For, behold, I will
shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served
them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. 2:10Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion;
for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. 2:11And
many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my
people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that
Jehovah of hosts has sent me unto thee. 2:12And Jehovah shall
inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose
Jerusalem. 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before Jehovah;
for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.
3:1And he showed me Joshua the high priest
standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand
to be his adversary. 3:2And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah
rebuke thee, O Satan; yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee:
is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 3:3Now Joshua was clothed
with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. 3:4And
he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take the
filthy garments from off him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused
thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with rich
apparel. 3:5And I said, Let them set a clean mitre
upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him
with garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by. 3:6And
the angel of Jehovah protested unto Joshua, saying, 3:7Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then
thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will
give thee a place of access among these that stand by. 3:8Hear
now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee;
for they are men that are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my
servant the Branch. 3:9For, behold, the stone that I have set
before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the
graving thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of
that land in one day. 3:10In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts,
shall ye invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the
fig-tree.
4:1And the angel that talked with me came
again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. 4:2And
he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a
candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven
lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon
the top thereof; 4:3and two olive-trees by it, one upon the
right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. 4:4And I
answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are
these, my lord? 4:5Then the angel that talked with me
answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said,
No, my lord. 4:6Then he answered and spake unto me,
saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might,
nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts. 4:7Who
art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a
plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace,
grace, unto it. 4:8Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto
me, saying, 4:9The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the
foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt
know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. 4:10For who hath despised
the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the
plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah,
which run to and fro through the whole earth. 4:11Then 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? 4:12And I answered the
second time, and said unto him, What are these two olive-branches, which
are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of
themselves? 4:13And he answered me and said, Knowest
thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord. 4:14Then said he, These
are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
5:1Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and
saw, and, behold, a flying roll. 5:2And 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. 5:3Then said he unto me, This is the curse
that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that
stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one
that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to it. 5:4I
will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah 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 abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume
it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. 5:5Then 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. 5:6And I said, What is it? And he said,
This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their
appearance in all the land 5:7(and, behold, there was lifted up a
talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah. 5:8And
he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the
ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. 5:9Then
lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women,
and the wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a
stork; and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven. 5:10Then said I to the angel that talked
with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? 5:11And he said unto me,
To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she
shall be set there in her own place.
6:1And again I lifted up mine eyes, and
saw, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains;
and the mountains were mountains of brass. 6:2In the first chariot
were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; 6:3and
in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled
strong horses. 6:4Then I answered and said unto the angel
that talked with me, What are these, my lord? 6:5And the angel answered
and said unto me, These are the four winds of heaven, which go forth from
standing before the Lord of all the earth. 6:6The chariot
wherein are the black horses goeth forth toward the north country; and the
white went forth after them; and the grizzled went forth toward the south
country. 6:7And the strong 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. 6:8Then cried he to me, and spake unto me,
saying, Behold, they that go toward the north country have quieted my
spirit in the north country. 6:9And the word of Jehovah came unto me,
saying, 6:10Take of them of the captivity, even of
Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come thou the same day, and go
into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, whither they are come from
Babylon; 6:11yea, take of them silver and
gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest; 6:12and speak unto him, saying, Thus
speaketh Jehovah 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 Jehovah; 6:13even he shall build the temple of
Jehovah; 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. 6:14And 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 Jehovah. 6:15And they that are far off shall come
and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of
hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye
will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God.
7:1And it came to pass in the fourth year
of king Darius, that the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah in the fourth
day of the ninth month, even in Chislev. 7:2Now they of
Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the
favor of Jehovah, 7:3and to speak unto the priests of
the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep
in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
7:4Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts
unto me, saying, 7:5Speak unto all the people of the land,
and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in
the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast
unto me, even to me? 7:6And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do
not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7:7Should ye not
hear the words which Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when
Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round
about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited? 7:8And
the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah, saying, 7:9Thus hath Jehovah of
hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness and
compassion every man to his brother; 7:10and oppress not the widow, nor the
fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil
against his brother in your heart. 7:11But they refused to hearken, and
pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not
hear. 7:12Yea, they made their hearts as an
adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah
of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there
came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts. 7:13And it is come to pass
that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will
not hear, said Jehovah of hosts; 7:14but I will scatter them with a
whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land
was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for
they laid the pleasant land desolate.
8:1And the word of Jehovah of hosts came
to me, saying, 8:2Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am
jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great
wrath. 8:3Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto
Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be
called The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy
mountain. 8:4Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There
shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every
man with his staff in his hand for very age. 8:5And the streets of the
city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. 8:6Thus
saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of
this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes?
saith Jehovah of hosts. 8:7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I
will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; 8:8and 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. 8:9Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your
hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words from the mouth of
the prophets that were in the day that the foundation of the house of
Jehovah of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built. 8:10For
before those 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 adversary: for I set all men every one against his neighbor. 8:11But
now I will not be unto the remnant of this people as in the former days,
saith Jehovah of hosts. 8:12For there shall be the seed of
peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its
increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the
remnant of this people to inherit all these things. 8:13And it shall come to
pass that, as ye were a curse among the nations, 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. 8:14For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I
thought to do evil unto you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith
Jehovah of hosts, and I repented not; 8:15so again have I
thought in these days to do good unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah:
fear ye not. 8:16These are the things that ye shall do:
speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of
truth and peace in your gates; 8:17and let none of you devise evil in
your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these
are things that I hate, saith Jehovah. 8:18And the word of
Jehovah of hosts came unto me, saying, 8:19Thus saith Jehovah 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 truth and
peace. 8:20Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: It
shall yet come to pass, that there shall come peoples, and the
inhabitants of many cities; 8:21and the inhabitants of one city
shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of
Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts: I will go also. 8:22Yea, many peoples and strong nations
shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor
of Jehovah. 8:23Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those
days it shall come to pass, 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.
9:1The burden of the word of Jehovah upon
the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be its resting-place (for
the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah); 9:2and
Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because they are
very wise. 9:3And Tyre did build herself a
stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of
the streets. 9:4Behold, the Lord will dispossess her,
and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with
fire. 9:5Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza
also, and shall be sore pained; and Ekron, for her expectation shall be
put to shame; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not
be inhabited. 9:6And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod,
and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 9:7And I will take away
his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth;
and he also shall be a remnant for our God; and he shall be as a chieftain
in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. 9:8And I will encamp about my house
against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor shall
pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. 9:9Rejoice 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, even upon a
colt the foal of an ass. 9:10And 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 nations: and his dominion shall be
from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 9:11As
for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy
prisoners from the pit wherein is no water. 9:12Turn you to the
stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will
render double unto thee. 9:13For I have bent Judah for me, I have
filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against
thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man. 9:14And
Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the
lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with
whirlwinds of the south. 9:15Jehovah of hosts will defend them; and
they shall devour, and shall tread down the sling-stones; and they shall
drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like
bowls, like the corners of the altar. 9:16And Jehovah their God
will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they shall
be as the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land. 9:17For
how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make
the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
10:1Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of
the latter rain, even of Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he
will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. 10:2For
the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and
they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their
way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd. 10:3Mine anger is kindled against the
shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for Jehovah of hosts hath
visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his goodly
horse in the battle. 10:4From him shall come forth the
corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every
ruler together. 10:5And they shall be as mighty men,
treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the
battle; and they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the riders
on horses shall be confounded. 10:6And I will strengthen the house of
Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back;
for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast
them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will hear them. 10:7And
they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall
rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shall see it, and rejoice;
their heart shall be glad in Jehovah. 10:8I will hiss for them,
and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they shall increase as they
have increased. 10:9And I will sow them among the peoples;
and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with
their children, and shall return. 10:10I 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 Lebanon; and place shall not be found
for them. 10:11And he will pass through the sea of
affliction, and will smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the
Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the
sceptre of Egypt shall depart. 10:12And I will strengthen them in
Jehovah; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith Jehovah.
11:1Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the
fire may devour thy cedars. 11:2Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is
fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan,
for the strong forest is come down. 11:3A voice of the wailing of the
shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young
lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste. 11:4Thus said Jehovah my
God: Feed the flock of slaughter; 11:5whose possessors slay them, and hold
themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah,
for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. 11:6For
I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I
will deliver the men every one into his neighbor'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. 11:7So I fed the flock of slaughter,
verily the 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. 11:8And
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them,
and their soul also loathed me. 11:9Then said I, I will not feed you: that
which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut
off; and let them that are left eat every one the flesh of another. 11:10And I took my staff Beauty, and cut
it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the
peoples. 11:11And it was broken in that day; and
thus the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew that it was the
word of Jehovah. 11:12And I said unto them, If ye think
good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire
thirty pieces of silver. 11:13And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it
unto the potter, the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took
the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the
house of Jehovah. 11:14Then I cut asunder mine other staff,
even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
11:15And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto
thee yet again the instruments of a foolish shepherd. 11:16For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd
in the land, who will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek
those that are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that
which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and
will tear their hoofs in pieces. 11:17Woe to the worthless 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.
12:1The burden of the word of Jehovah
concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the
heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of
man within him: 12:2behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of
reeling unto all the peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it be
in the siege against Jerusalem. 12:3And it shall come to pass in that day,
that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples; all
that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations
of the earth shall be gathered together against it. 12:4In that day, saith
Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness;
and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every
horse of the peoples with blindness. 12:5And the chieftains of Judah shall say
in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of
hosts their God. 12:6In that day will I make the chieftains
of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among
sheaves; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right
hand and on the left; and they of Jerusalem shall yet again dwell
in their own place, even in Jerusalem. 12:7Jehovah also shall
save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and
the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah. 12:8In
that day shall Jehovah 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 Jehovah before them. 12:9And
it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem. 12:10And I will pour upon
the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of
grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto 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
first-born. 12:11In that day shall there be a great
mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of
Megiddon. 12:12And 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; 12:13the family of the house of Levi
apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their
wives apart; 12:14all the families that remain, every
family apart, and their wives apart.
13:1In that day there shall be a fountain
opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin
and for uncleanness. 13:2And it shall come to pass in that day,
saith Jehovah 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. 13:3And
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 Jehovah; and his father and his mother
that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. 13:4And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed
every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a
hairy mantle to deceive: 13:5but he shall say, I am no prophet, I
am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.
13:6And one shall say unto him, What are
these wounds between thine arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I
was wounded in the house of my friends. 13:7Awake, O sword,
against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah
of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will
turn my hand upon the little ones. 13:8And it shall come to pass, that in all
the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but
the third shall be left therein. 13:9And I will bring the third part into
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, Jehovah is my God.
14:1Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when
thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 14:2For 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. 14:3Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight
against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 14:4And
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 be cleft 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. 14:5And ye shall flee by the valley of my
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azel; yea, ye
shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah; and Jehovah my God shall come, and all the holy ones
with thee. 14:6And it shall come to pass in that day,
that there shall not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:
14:7but it shall be one day which is known
unto Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at
evening time there shall be light. 14:8And it shall come to pass in that day,
that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the
eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea: in summer and in
winter shall it be. 14:9And Jehovah shall be King over all the
earth: in that day shall Jehovah be one, and his name one. 14:10All the land shall be made like the
Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted
up, and shall dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of
the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel unto
the king's wine-presses. 14:11And men shall dwell therein, and
there shall be no more curse; but Jerusalem shall dwell safely. 14:12And this shall be the plague
wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against
Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their
feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue
shall consume away in their mouth. 14:13And it shall come to pass in that
day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall
lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up
against the hand of his neighbor. 14:14And Judah also shall fight at
Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered
together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 14:15And 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 those camps, as that plague. 14:16And it shall come to
pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against
Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of
hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 14:17And it shall be, that
whoso of all the families of the earth goeth not up unto Jerusalem
to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.
14:18And if the family of Egypt go not up,
and come not, neither shall it be upon them; there shall be the
plague wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that go not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles. 14:19This shall be the punishment of
Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the
feast of tabernacles. 14:20In that day shall there be upon the
bells of the horses, HOLY UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in Jehovah's house
shall be like the bowls before the altar. 14:21Yea, every pot in
Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they
that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that
day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.
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