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Zechariah
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Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.
Zech.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.