| 001:001
| 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, |
| 001:002 | The
LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. |
| 001:003 | 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. |
| 001:004 | 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. |
| 001:005 | Your
fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? |
| 001:006 | 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. |
| 001:007 | 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, |
| 001:008 | 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. |
| 001:009 | 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. |
| 001:010 | 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. |
| 001:011 | 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. |
| 001:012 | 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? |
| 001:013 | And
the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable
words. |
| 001:014 | 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.
|
| 001:015 | 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. |
| 001:016 | 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. |
| 001:017 | 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. |
| 001:018 | Then
lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. |
| 001:019 | 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. |
| 001:020 | And
the LORD shewed me four carpenters. |
| 001:021 | 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. |
|
| 002:001
| I
lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line
in his hand. | | 002:002 | 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. |
| 002:003 | And,
behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out
to meet him, |
| 002:004 | 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: |
| 002:005 | 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. |
| 002:006 | 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. |
| 002:007 | Deliver
thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. |
| 002:008 | 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.
|
| 002:009 | 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. |
| 002:010 | Sing
and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst
of thee, saith the LORD. |
| 002:011 | 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. |
| 002:012 | And
the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose
Jerusalem again. |
| 002:013 | Be
silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
|
|
| 003:001
| 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. | | 003:002 | 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?
|
| 003:003 | Now
Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. |
| 003:004 | 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.
|
| 003:005 | 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.
|
| 003:006 | And
the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying, |
| 003:007 | 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. |
| 003:008 | 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. |
| 003:009 | 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. |
| 003:010 | In
that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under
the vine and under the fig tree. |
|
| 004:001
| And
the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened
out of his sleep. | | 004:002 | 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: |
| 004:003 | And
two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon
the left side thereof. |
| 004:004 | So
I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these,
my lord? |
| 004:005 | Then
the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what
these be? And I said, No, my lord. |
| 004:006 | 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.
|
| 004:007 | 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. |
| 004:008 | Moreover
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 004:009 | 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. |
| 004:010 | 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. |
| 004:011 | 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? |
| 004:012 | 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? |
| 004:013 | And
he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my
lord. |
| 004:014 | Then
said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole
earth. |
|
| 005:001
| Then
I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. | | 005:002 | 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. |
| 005:003 | 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. |
| 005:004 | 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. |
| 005:005 | 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. |
| 005:006 | 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. |
| 005:007 | And,
behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth
in the midst of the ephah. |
| 005:008 | 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. |
| 005:009 | 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. |
| 005:010 | Then
said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? |
| 005:011 | 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. |
|
| 006:001
| 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. | | 006:002 | In
the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
|
| 006:003 | And
in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay
horses. |
| 006:004 | Then
I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my
lord? |
| 006:005 | 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. |
| 006:006 | 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. |
| 006:007 | 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. |
| 006:008 | 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. |
| 006:009 | And
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 006:010 | 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; |
| 006:011 | Then
take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua
the son of Josedech, the high priest; |
| 006:012 | 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: |
| 006:013 | 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. |
| 006:014 | 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. |
| 006:015 | 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. |
|
| 007:001
| 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;
| | 007:002 | When
they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men,
to pray before the LORD, |
| 007:003 | 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? |
| 007:004 | Then
came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, |
| 007:005 | 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? |
| 007:006 | And
when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and
drink for yourselves? |
| 007:007 | 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? |
| 007:008 | And
the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, |
| 007:009 | Thus
speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and
compassions every man to his brother: |
| 007:010 | 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. |
| 007:011 | But
they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears,
that they should not hear. |
| 007:012 | 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. |
| 007:013 | 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: |
| 007:014 | 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. |
|
| 008:001
| Again
the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, | | 008:002 | Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I
was jealous for her with great fury. |
| 008:003 | 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. |
| 008:004 | 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.
|
| 008:005 | And
the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets
thereof. |
| 008:006 | 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. |
| 008:007 | Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country,
and from the west country; |
| 008:008 | 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.
|
| 008:009 | 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.
|
| 008:010 | 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. |
| 008:011 | But
now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith
the LORD of hosts. |
| 008:012 | 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. |
| 008:013 | 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. |
| 008:014 | 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: |
| 008:015 | So
again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house
of Judah: fear ye not. |
| 008:016 | 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: |
| 008:017 | 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. |
| 008:018 | And
the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, |
| 008:019 | 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. |
| 008:020 | Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people,
and the inhabitants of many cities: |
| 008:021 | 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. |
| 008:022 | Yea,
many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem,
and to pray before the LORD. |
| 008:023 | 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. |
|
| 009:001
| 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. | | 009:002 | And
Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.
|
| 009:003 | And
Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and
fine gold as the mire of the streets. |
| 009:004 | Behold,
the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she
shall be devoured with fire. |
| 009:005 | 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. |
| 009:006 | And
a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
|
| 009:007 | 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. |
| 009:008 | 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. |
| 009:009 | 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. |
| 009:010 | 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 the river even to
the ends of the earth. |
| 009:011 | As
for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners
out of the pit wherein is no water. |
| 009:012 | Turn
you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that
I will render double unto thee; |
| 009:013 | 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. |
| 009:014 | 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. |
| 009:015 | 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. |
| 009:016 | 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. |
| 009:017 | For
how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the
young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. |
|
| 010:001
| 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.
| | 010:002 | 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. |
| 010:003 | 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. |
| 010:004 | Out
of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow,
out of him every oppressor together. |
| 010:005 | 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. |
| 010:006 | 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. |
| 010:007 | 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. |
| 010:008 | I
will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall
increase as they have increased. |
| 010:009 | 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. |
| 010:010 | 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 Lebanon; and place
shall not be found for them. |
| 010:011 | 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. |
| 010:012 | And
I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his
name, saith the LORD. |
|
| 011:001
| Open
thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. | | 011:002 | 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. |
| 011:003 | 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. |
| 011:004 | Thus
saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; |
| 011:005 | 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. |
| 011:006 | 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. |
| 011:007 | 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. |
| 011:008 | Three
shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul
also abhorred me. |
| 011:009 | 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. |
| 011:010 | And
I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant
which I had made with all the people. |
| 011:011 | 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. |
| 011:012 | 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. |
| 011:013 | 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. |
| 011:014 | Then
I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel. |
| 011:015 | And
the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
|
| 011:016 | 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. |
| 011:017 | 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. |
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| 012:001
| 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. | | 012:002 | 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. |
| 012:003 | 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. |
| 012:004 | 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. |
| 012:005 | 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. |
| 012:006 | 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. |
| 012:007 | 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. |
| 012:008 | 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. |
| 012:009 | And
it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem. |
| 012:010 | 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. |
| 012:011 | In
that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon
in the valley of Megiddon. |
| 012:012 | 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; |
| 012:013 | The
family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei
apart, and their wives apart; |
| 012:014 | All
the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. |
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| 013:001
| 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. | | 013:002 | 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. |
| 013:003 | 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. |
| 013:004 | 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: |
| 013:005 | But
he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep
cattle from my youth. |
| 013:006 | 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. |
| 013:007 | 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. |
| 013:008 | 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. |
| 013:009 | 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. |
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| 014:001
| Behold,
the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of
thee. | | 014:002 | 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. |
| 014:003 | Then
shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought
in the day of battle. |
| 014:004 | 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. |
| 014:005 | 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. |
| 014:006 | And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
|
| 014:007 | 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. |
| 014:008 | 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. |
| 014:009 | And
the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD,
and his name one. |
| 014:010 | 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. |
| 014:011 | And
men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem
shall be safely inhabited. |
| 014:012 | 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. |
| 014:013 | 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. |
| 014:014 | 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.
|
| 014:015 | 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. |
| 014:016 | 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. |
| 014:017 | 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. |
| 014:018 | 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. |
| 014:019 | This
shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come
not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. |
| 014:020 | 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 bowls before the altar.
|
| 014:021 | 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. |