Zechariah,
chapter 1
1: In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of
the Lord came to Zechari'ah the son of Berechi'ah, son of Iddo, the
prophet, saying,
2: "The Lord was very angry with your fathers.
3: Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return to
Me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord
hosts.
4: Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried
out, `Thus says the Lord hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your
evil deeds.' But they did not hear or heed Me, says the Lord:
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 overtake your fathers? So they repented and
said, As the Lord hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds,
so has He dealt with us."
7: On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month which is the
month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came
to Zechari'ah the son of Berechi'ah, son of Iddo, the prophet; and
Zechari'ah said,
8: "I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding upon a red
horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind
him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
9: Then I said, `What are these, my lord?' The angel who talked
with me said to me, `I will show you what they are.'
10: So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered,
`These are they whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth.'
11: And they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing
among the myrtle trees, `We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all
the earth remains at rest.'
12: Then the angel of the Lord said, `O Lord of hosts, how long
wilt Thou have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against
which Thou hast had indignation these seventy years?'
13: And the Lord answered gracious and comforting words to the
angel who talked with me.
14: So the angel who talked with me said to me, `Cry out, Thus
says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for
Zion.
15: And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for
while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster.
16: Therefore, thus says the Lord, I have returned to Jerusalem
with compassion; My house shall be built in it, says the Lord of hosts,
and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
17: Cry again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again
overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again
choose Jerusalem.'"
18: And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!
19: And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are
these?" And he answered me, "These are the horns which have
scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
20: Then the Lord showed me four smiths.
21: And I said, "What are these coming to do?" He
answered, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no
man raised his head; and these have come to terrify them, to cast down
the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of
Judah to scatter it."
Zechariah,
chapter 2
1: And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a
measuring line in his hand!
2: Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to
me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is
its length."
3: And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and
another angel came forward to meet him,
4: and said to him, "Run, say to that young man, `Jerusalem
shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude
of men and cattle in it.
5: For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the
Lord, and I will be the glory within her.'"
6: Ho! ho! Flee from the land of the north, says the Lord; for I
have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the Lord.
7: Ho! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of
Babylon.
8: For thus said the Lord of hosts, after His glory sent me to
the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple
of his eye:
9: "Behold, I will shake My hand over them, and they shall
become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the
Lord of hosts has sent me.
10: Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for lo, I come and I
will dwell in the midst of you, says the Lord.
11: And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that
day, and shall be My people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and
you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
12: And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy
land, and will again choose Jerusalem."
13: Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord; for he has roused
himself from his holy dwelling.
Zechariah,
chapter 3
1: Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
2: And the Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, O
Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand
plucked from the fire?"
3: Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy
garments.
4: And the angel said to those who were standing before him,
"Remove the filthy garments from him." And to him he said,
"Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will
clothe you with rich apparel."
5: And I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his
head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with
garments; and the angel of the Lord was standing by.
6: And the angel of the Lord enjoined Joshua,
7: "Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in My ways
and keep My charge, then you shall rule My house and have charge of My
courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are
standing here.
8: Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who
sit before you, for they are men of good omen: behold, I will bring My
servant the Branch.
9: For behold, upon the stone which I have set before Joshua,
upon a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription,
says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the guilt of this land in a
single day.
10: In that day, says the Lord of hosts, every one of you will
invite his neighbor under his vine and under his fig tree."
Zechariah,
chapter 4
1: And the angel who talked with me came again, and woke me, like
a man that is awakened out of his sleep.
2: And he said to me, "What do you see?" I said,
"I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top
of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps which
are on the top of it.
3: And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the
bowl and the other on its left."
4: And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are
these, my lord?"
5: Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Do you
not know what these are?" I said, "No, my lord."
6: Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to
Zerub'babel: Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord
of hosts.
7: What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerub'babel you shall
become a plain; and he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of
`Grace, grace to it!'"
8: Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
9: "The hands of Zerub'babel have laid the foundation of
this house; His hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that
the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
10: For whoever has despised the day of small things shall
rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerub'babel.
"These seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the
whole earth."
11: Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees on
the right and the left of the lampstand?"
12: And a second time I said to him, "What are these two
branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from
which the oil is poured out?"
13: He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I
said, "No, my lord."
14: Then he said, "These are the two anointed who stand by
the Lord of the whole earth
Zechariah,
chapter 5
1: Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!
2: And he said to me, "What do you see?" I answered,
"I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its
breadth ten cubits."
3: Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over
the face of the whole land; for every one who steals shall be cut off
henceforth according to it, and every one who swears falsely shall be
cut off henceforth according to it.
4: I will send it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall
enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by
My name; and it shall abide in his house and consume it, both timber and
stones."
5: Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me,
"Lift your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth."
6: And I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the
ephah that goes forth." And he said, "This is their iniquity
in all the land."
7: And behold, the lead cover was lifted, and there was a woman
sitting in the ephah!
8: And he said, "This is wickedness." And he thrust her
back into the ephah, and thrust down the lead weight upon its mouth.
9: Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming
forward! The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a
stork, and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.
10: Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are
they taking the ephah?"
11: He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to build a house
for it; and when this is prepared, they will set the ephah down there on
its base."
Zechariah,
chapter 6
1: And again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots
came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of
bronze.
2: The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,
3: the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled gray
horses.
4: Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are
these, my lord?"
5: And the angel answered me, "These are going forth to the
four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all
the earth.
6: The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north
country, the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones
go toward the south country."
7: When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and
patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they
patrolled the earth.
8: Then he cried to me, "Behold, those who go toward the
north country have set My Spirit at rest in the north country."
9: And the word of the Lord came to me:
10: "Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobi'jah, and Jedai'ah,
who have arrived from Babylon; and go the same day to the house of
Josi'ah, the son of Zephani'ah.
11: Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it
upon the head of Joshua, the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest;
12: and say to him, `Thus says the Lord of hosts, "Behold,
the man whose name is the Branch: for He shall grow up in his place, and
He shall build the temple of the Lord.
13: It is He who shall build the temple of the Lord, and shall
bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule upon His throne. And there
shall be a priest by his throne, and peaceful understanding shall be
between them both."'
14: And the crown shall be in the temple of the Lord as a
reminder to Heldai, Tobi'jah, Jedai'ah, and Josi'ah the son of
Zephani'ah.
15: "And those who are far off shall come and help to build
the temple of the Lord; and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has
sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey
the voice of the Lord your God."
Zechariah,
chapter 7
1: In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came
to Zechari'ah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
2: Now the people of Bethel had sent Share'zer and Reg'em-mel'ech
and their men, to entreat the favor of the Lord,
3: and to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and
the prophets, "Should I mourn and fast in the fifth month, as I
have done for so many years?"
4: Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me;
5: "Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When
you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these
seventy years, was it for Me that you fasted?
6: And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for
yourselves and drink for yourselves?
7: When Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, with her
cities round about her, and the south and the lowland were inhabited,
were not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former
prophets?"
8: And the word of the Lord came to Zechari'ah, saying;
9:
Thus
says the Lord of hosts; Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy
each to his brother.
10:
do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner or the poor, and
let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart
11: But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder,
and stopped their ears that they might not hear.
12: They made their hearts like adamant lest they should hear the
law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through
the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.
13: "As I called, and they would not hear, so they called,
and I would not hear," says the Lord of hosts,
14: "and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the
nations which they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate,
so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made
desolate."
Zechariah,
chapter 8
1: And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
2: "Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with
great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.
3: Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion, and will dwell in
the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city,
and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.
4: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again
sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand for very age.
5: And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
playing in its streets.
6: Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight
of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvelous
in My sight, says the Lord of hosts?
7: Thus says 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 to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and
they shall be My people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in
righteousness."
9: Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Let your hands be strong,
you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of
the prophets, since the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord
of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
10: For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage
for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went
out or came in; for I set every man against his fellow.
11: But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in
the former days, says the Lord of hosts.
12: For there shall be a sowing of peace; the vine shall yield
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 possess
all these things.
13: And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O
house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you and you shall be
a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong."
14: For thus says the Lord of hosts: "As I purposed to do
evil to you, when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, and I did not
relent, says the Lord of hosts,
15: so again have I purposed in these days to do good to
Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.
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16:
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another,
render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace,
17: do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and
love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord."
18: And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
19: "Thus says 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 seasons of joy and
gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.
20: "Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come,
even the inhabitants of many cities;
21: the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, `Let
us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of
hosts; I am going.'
22: Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord
of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the Lord.
23: Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the
nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying,
`Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
Zechariah,
chapter 9
1: An Oracle The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach
and will rest upon Damascus. For to the Lord belong the cities of Aram,
even as all the tribes of Israel;
2: Hamath also, which borders thereon, Tyre and Sidon, though
they are very wise.
3: Tyre has built herself a rampart, and heaped up silver like
dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
4: But lo, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and hurl
her wealth into the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.
5: Ash'kelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall
writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The
king shall perish from Gaza; Ash'kelon shall be uninhabited;
6: a mongrel people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will make an end
of the pride of Philistia.
7: I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its
abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our
God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the
Jeb'usites.
8: Then I will encamp at My house as a guard, so that none shall
march to and fro; no oppressor shall again overrun them, for now I see
with My own eyes.
9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter
of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is
He, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.
10: I will cut off the chariot from E'phraim and the war horse
from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall
command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and
from the River to the ends of the earth.
11: As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with
you, I will set your captives free from the waterless pit.
12: Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I
declare that I will restore to you double.
13: For I have bent Judah as My bow; I have made E'phraim its
arrow. I will brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Greece, and
wield you like a warrior's sword.
14: Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow go forth
like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and march forth in
the whirlwinds of the south.
15: The Lord of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour
and tread down the slingers; and they shall drink their blood like wine,
and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.
16: On that day the Lord their God will save them for they are
the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine
on his land.
17: Yea, how good and how fair it shall be! Grain shall make the
young men flourish, and new wine the maidens.
Zechariah,
chapter 10
1: Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from
the Lord who makes the storm clouds, who gives men showers of rain, to
every one the vegetation in the field.
2: For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies;
the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation. Therefore
the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for want of a shepherd.
3: "My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish
the leaders; for the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of
Judah, and will make them like his proud steed in battle.
4: Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent
peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every ruler.
5: Together they shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling
the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the Lord is
with them, and they shall confound the riders on horses.
6: "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save
the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on
them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them; for I am the
Lord their God and I will answer them.
7: Then E'phraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their
hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and
rejoice, their hearts shall exult in the Lord.
8: "I will signal for them and gather them in, for I have
redeemed them, and they shall be as many as of old.
9: Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far
countries they shall remember Me, and with their children they shall
live and return.
10: I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather
them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to
Lebanon, till there is no room for them.
11: They shall pass through the sea of Egypt, and the waves of
the sea shall be smitten, and all the depths of the Nile dried up. The
pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall
depart.
12: I will make them strong in the Lord and they shall glory in His name," says the Lord.
Zechariah,
chapter 11
1: Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your
cedars!
2: Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious
trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been
felled!
3: Hark, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled!
Hark, the roar of the lions, for the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste!
4: Thus said the Lord my God: "Become shepherd of the flock
doomed to slaughter.
5: Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished; and those who
sell them say, `Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich'; and their own
shepherds have no pity on them.
6: For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this
land, says the Lord. Lo, I will cause men to fall each into the hand of
his shepherd, and each into the hand of his king; and they shall crush
the earth, and I will deliver none from their hand."
7: So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slain for
those who trafficked in the sheep. And I took two staffs; one I named
Grace, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.
8: In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became
impatient with them, and they also detested Me.
9: So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die,
let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those
that are left devour the flesh of one another."
10: And I took My staff Grace, and I broke it, annulling the
covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
11: So it was annulled on that day, and the traffickers in the
sheep, who were watching Me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.
12: Then I said to them, "If it seems right to you, give Me
My wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as My wages
thirty shekels of silver.
13: Then the Lord said to me, "Cast it into the
treasury" -- the lordly price at which I was paid off by them. So I
took the thirty shekels of silver and cast them into the treasury in the
house of the Lord.
14: Then I broke My second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel.
15: Then the Lord said to me, "Take once more the implements
of a worthless shepherd.
16: For lo, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not
care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or
nourish the sound, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off
even their hoofs.
17: Woe to My worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the
sword smite his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!"
Zechariah,
chapter 12
1: An Oracle The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says
the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed
the spirit of man within him:
2: "Lo, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all
the peoples round about; it will be against Judah also in the siege
against Jerusalem.
3: On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the
peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the
nations of the earth will come together against it.
4: On that day, says the Lord, I will strike every horse with
panic, and its rider with madness. But upon the house of Judah I will
open My eyes, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
5: Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, `The
inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the Lord of hosts, their
God.'
6: "On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a
blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves;
and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round
about, while Jerusalem shall still be inhabited in its place, in
Jerusalem.
7: "And the Lord will give victory to the tents of Judah
first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah.
8: On that day the Lord will put a shield about the inhabitants
of Jerusalem so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like
David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the
Lord, at their head.
9: And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that
come against Jerusalem.
10: "And I will pour out on the house of David and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so
that, when they look on Him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for
Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one
weeps over a first-born.
11: On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the
mourning for Hadadrim'mon in the plain of Megid'do.
12: The land shall mourn, each family by itself; the family of
the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family
of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
13: the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by
themselves; the family of the Shim'e-ites by itself, and their wives by
themselves;
14: and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their
wives by themselves.
Zechariah,
chapter 13
1: "On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the
house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin
and uncleanness.
2: "And on that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off
the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered
no more; and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the
unclean spirit.
3: And if any one again appears as a prophet, his father and
mother who bore him will say to him, `You shall not live, for you speak
lies in the name of the Lord'; and his father and mother who bore him
shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
4: On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when
he prophesies; he will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,
5: but he will say, `I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil;
for the land has been my possession since my youth.'
6: And if one asks him, `What are these wounds on your back?' he
will say, `The wounds I received in the house of my friends.'"
7: "Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who
stands next to Me," says the Lord of hosts. "Strike the
Shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn My hand against
the little ones.
8: In the whole land, says the Lord, two thirds shall be cut off
and perish, and one third shall be left alive.
9: And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as
one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on
My name, and I will answer them. I will say, `They are My people'; and
they will say, `The Lord is My God.'"
Zechariah,
chapter 14
1: Behold, a day of the Lord is coming, when the spoil taken from
you will be divided in the midst of you.
2: For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle,
and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women
ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the
people shall not be cut off from the city.
3: Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations as
when he fights on a day of battle.
4: On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which
lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be
split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half
of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half southward.
5: And the valley of My mountains shall be stopped up, for the
valley of the mountains shall touch the side of it; and you shall flee
as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzzi'ah king of Judah.
Then the Lord your God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
6: On that day there shall be neither cold nor frost.
7: And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the Lord),
not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light.
8: On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half
of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall
continue in summer as in winter.
9: And the Lord will become king over all the earth; on that day
the Lord will be one and His name one.
10: The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to
Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft upon its
site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the
Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Han'anel to the king's wine presses.
11: And it shall be inhabited, for there shall be no more curse;
Jerusalem shall dwell in security.
12: And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite
all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot
while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their
sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.
13: And on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on
them, so that each will lay hold on the hand of his fellow, and the hand
of the one will be raised against the hand of the other;
14: even Judah will fight against Jerusalem. And the wealth of
all the nations round about shall be collected, gold, silver, and
garments in great abundance.
15: And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the
mules, the camels, the asses, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.
16: Then every one that survives of all the nations that have
come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King,
the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.
17: And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain
upon them.
18: And if the family of Egypt do not go up and present
themselves, then upon them shall come the plague with which the Lord
afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.
19: This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to
all the nations that do not go up to keep the feast of booths.
20: And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the
horses, "Holy to the Lord." And the pots in the house of the
Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar;
21: And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the
Lord of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and
boil the flesh of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a
trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.
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