1.1
In the eighth month, in the second year of [the reign of] Darius, the
word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the son of Barachias, the son of
Addo, the prophet, saying,
1.2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers.
1.3 And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the
Lord Almighty: Turn to me, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to
you, saith the Lord of hosts.
1.4 And be ye not as your fathers, whom the
prophets before charged, saying, Thus saith the Lord Almighty: Turn ye
from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they hearkened
not, and attended not to hearken to me, saith the Lord.
1.5 Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live for ever?
1.6 But do ye receive my words and mine
ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the
prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and
said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our
ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us.
1.7 On the twenty-fourth [day] in the eleventh
month, this is the month Sabat, in the second year of [the reign of]
Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the son of Barachias,
the son of Addo, the prophet, saying,
1.8 I saw by night, and behold a man mounted on
a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains; and behind him
were red horses, and grey, and piebald, and white.
1.9 And I said, What are these, [my] lord? And
the angel spoke with me said to me, I will shew thee what these
[things] are.
1.10 And the man that stood between the mountains
answered, and said to me, These are [they] whom the Lord has sent forth
to go round the earth.
1.11 And they answered the angel of the Lord that
stood between the mountains, and said, We have gone round all the
earth, and, behold, all the earth is inhabited, and is at rest.
1.12 Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O
Lord Almighty, how long wilt thou have no mercy on Jerusalem, and the
cities of Juda, which thou has disregarded these seventy years?
1.13 And the Lord Almighty answered the angel that spoke with me good words and consolatory sayings.
1.14 And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry
out and say, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; I have been jealous for
Jerusalem and Sion with great jealousy.
1.15 And I am very angry with the heathen that
combine to attack [her]: forasmuch as I indeed was a little angry, but
they combined to attack [her] for evil.
1.16 Therefore thus saith the Lord: I will return to
Jerusalem with compassion; and my house shall be rebuilt in her, saith
the Lord Almighty, and a measuring line shall yet be stretched out over
Jerusalem.
1.17 And the angel that spoke with me said to me, Cry
yet, and say, Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet shall cities be spread
abroad through prosperity; and the Lord shall yet have mercy upon Sion,
and shall choose Jerusalem.
1.18 And I lifted up mine eyes and looked, and behold four horns.
1.19 And I said to the angel that spoke with me, What
are these things, [my] lord? And he said to me, These are the horns
that have scattered Juda, and Israel, and Jerusalem.
1.20 And the Lord shewed me four artificers.
1.21 And I said, What are these coming to do? And he
said, These are the horns that scattered Juda, and they broke Israel in
pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come forth
to sharpen them for their hands, [even] the four horns, the nations
that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.
2.1 And I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a man, and in his hand a measuring line.
2.2 And I said to him, Whither goest thou? And
he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth of it,
and what is the length of it.
2.3 And, behold, the angel that spoke with me stood [by], and another angel went forth to meet him,
2.4 and spoke to him, saying, Run and speak to
that young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be fully inhabited by reason of
the abundance of men and cattle in the midst of her.
2.5 And I will be to her, saith the Lord, a
wall of fire round about, and I will be for a glory in the midst of her.
2.6 Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north,
saith the Lord: for I will gather you from the four winds of heaven,
saith the Lord,
2.7 [even] to Sion: deliver yourselves, ye that dwell [with] the daughter of Babylon.
2.8 For thus saith the Lord Almighty; After the
glory has he sent me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that
touches you is as one that touches the apple of his eye.
2.9 For, behold, I bring my hand upon them, and
they shall be a spoil to them that serve them: and ye shall know that
the Lord Almighty has sent me.
2.10 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Sion: for,
behold, I come, and will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
2.11 And many nations shall flee for refuge to the
Lord in that day, and they shall be for a people to him, and they shall
dwell in the midst of thee: and thou shalt know that the Lord Almighty
has sent me to thee.
2.12 And the Lord shall inherit Juda his portion in the holy [land], and he will yet choose Jerusalem.
2.13 Let all flesh fear before the Lord: for he has risen up from his holy clouds.
3.1
And the Lord shewed me Jesus the high priest standing before the angel
of the Lord, and the Devil stood on his right hand to resist him.
3.2 And the Lords said to the Devil, The Lord
rebuke thee, O Devil, even the Lord that has chosen Jerusalem rebuke
thee: behold! is not this as a brand plucked from the fire?
3.3 Now Jesus was clothed in filthy raiment, and stood before the angel.
3.4 And [the Lord] answered and spoke to those
who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy raiment from him:
and he said to him, Behold, I have taken away thine iniquities: and
clothe ye him with a long robe,
3.5 and place a pure mitre upon his head. So
they placed a pure mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments:
and the angel of the Lord stood [by].
3.6 And the angel of the Lord testified to Jesus, saying,
3.7 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; If thou wilt
walk in my ways, and take heed to my charges, then shalt thou judge my
house: and if thou wilt diligently keep my court, then will I give thee
men to walk in the midst of these that stand [here].
3.8 Hear now, Jesus the high priest, thou, and
thy neighbours that are sitting before [thee]: for they are diviners,
for, behold, I bring forth my servant The Branch.
3.9 For [as for] the stone which I have set
before the face of Jesus, on the one stone are seven eyes: behold, I am
digging a trench, saith the Lord Almighty, ad I will search out all the
iniquity of that land in one day.
3.10 In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, ye shall
call together every man his neighbour under the vine and under the
fig-tree.
4.1
And the angel that talked with me returned, and awakened me, as when a
man is awakened out of his sleep.
4.2 And he said to me, What seest thou? And I
said, I have seen, and behold a candlestick all of gold, and its bowl
upon it, and seven lamps upon it, and seven oil funnels to the lamps
upon it:
4.3 and two olive-trees above it, one on the right of the bowl, and one on the left.
4.4 And I inquired, and spoke to the angel that
talked with me, saying, What are these things, [my] lord?
4.5 And the angel that talked with me answered,
and spoke to me, saying, Knowest thou not what these things are? And I
said, No, [my] lord.
4.6 And he answered and spoke to me, saying,
This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying, not by mighty power,
nor by strength, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord Almighty.
4.7 Who art thou, the great mountain before
Zorobabel, that thou shouldest prosper? whereas I will bring out the
stone of the inheritance, the grace of it the equal of [my] grace.
4.8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
4.9 The hands of Zorobabel have laid the
foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and thou shalt
know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to thee.
4.10 For who has despised the small days? surely they
shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of
Zorobabel: these are the seven eyes that look upon all the earth.
4.11 And I answered, and said to him, What are these
two olive-trees, which are on the right and left hand of the
candlestick?
4.12 And I asked the second time, and said to him,
What are the two branches of the olive-trees that are by the side of
the two golden pipes that pour into and communicate with the golden oil
funnels?
4.13 And he said to me, Knowest thou not what these are? and I said, No, [my] lord.
4.14 And he said, These are the two anointed ones [that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
5.1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.
5.2 And he said to me, What seest thou? And I
said, I see a flying sickle, of the length of twenty cubits, and of the
breadth of ten cubits.
5.3 And he said to me, This is the curse that
goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief shall be
punished with death on this side, and every false swearer shall be
punished on that side.
5.4 And I will bring it forth, saith the Lord
Almighty, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the
house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall rest in the
midst of his house, and shall consume it, and the timber of it, and the
stones of it.
5.5 And the angel that talked with me went
forth, and said to me, Lift up thine eyes, and see this that goes forth.
5.6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This
is the measure that goes forth. And he said, This is their iniquity in
all the earth.
5.7 And behold a talent of lead lifted up: and behold a woman sat in the midst of the measure.
5.8 And he said, This is iniquity. And he cast
it into the midst of the measure, and cast the weight of lead on the
mouth of it.
5.9 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and,
behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and
they had stork's wings: and they lifted up the measure between the
earth and the sky.
5.10 And I said to the angel that spoke with me, Whither do these carry away the measure?
5.11 And he said to me, To build it a house in the
land of Babylon, and to prepare [a place for it]; and they shall set it
there on its own base.
6.1
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, four
chariots coming out from between two mountains; and the mountains were
brazen mountains.
6.2 In the first chariot [were] red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
6.3 and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot piebald [and] ash-coloured horses.
6.4 And I answered and said to the angel that talked with me, What are these, my Lord?
6.5 And the angel that talked with me answered
and said, These are the four winds of heaven, [and] they are going
forth to stand before the Lord of all the earth.
6.6 [As for the chariot] in which were the
black horses, they went out to the land of the north; and the white
went out after them; and the piebald went out to the land of the south.
6.7 And the ash-coloured went out, and looked
to go and compass the earth: and he said, Go, and compass the earth.
And they compassed the earth.
6.8 And he cried out and spoke to me, saying,
Behold, these go out to the land of the north, and they have quieted
mine anger in the land of the north.
6.9 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
6.10 Take the things of the captivity from the chief
men, and from the useful men of it, and from them that have understood
it; and thou shalt enter in that day into the house of Josias the son
of Sophonias that came out of Babylon.
6.11 And thou shalt take silver and gold, and make
crowns, and thou shalt put [them] upon the head of Jesus the son of
Josedec the high priest;
6.12 and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord
Almighty; Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall spring
up from his stem, and build the house of the Lord.
6.13 And he shall receive power, and shall sit and
rule upon his throne; and there shall be a priest on his right hand,
and a peaceable counsel shall be between [them] both.
6.14 And the crown shall be to them that wait
patiently, and to the useful men of the captivity, and to them that
have known it, and for the favour of the son of Sophonias, and for a
psalm in the house of the Lord.
6.15 And they [that are] far from them shall come and
build in the house of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord
Almighty has sent me to you: and [this] shall come to pass, if ye will
diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.
7.1
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Darius the king, [that] the
word of the Lord came to Zacharias on the fourth [da] of the ninth
month, which is Chaseleu.
7.2 And Sarasar and Arbeseer the king and his men sent to Bethel, and [that] to propitiate the Lord,
7.3 speaking to the priests that were in the
house of the Lord Almighty, and to the prophets, saying, The holy
offering has come in hither in the fifth month, as it has done already
many years.
7.4 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
7.5 Speak to the whole people of the land, and
to the priests, saying, Though ye fasted or lamented in the fifth or
seventh [months] (yea, behold, these seventy years) have ye at all
fasted to me?
7.6 And if ye eat or drink, do ye not eat and drink for yourselves?
7.7 Are not these the words which the Lord
spoke by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and her cities round about her, and the hill country and
the low country was inhabited?
7.8 And the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, saying,
7.9 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Judge
righteous judgment, and deal mercifully and compassionately every one
with his brother:
7.10 and oppress not the widow, or the fatherless, or
the stranger, or the poor; and let not one of you remember in his heart
the injury of his brother.
7.11 But they refused to attend, and madly turned
their back, and made their ears heavy, so that they should not hear.
7.12 And they made their heart disobedient, so as not
to hearken to my law, and the words which the Lord Almighty sent forth
by his Spirit by the former prophets: so there was great wrath from the
Lord Almighty.
7.13 And it shall come to pass, [that] as he spoke,
and they hearkened not, so they shall cry, and I will not hearken,
saith the Lord Almighty.
7.14 And I will cast them out among all the nations,
whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly
destitute of any going through or returning: yea they have made the
choice land a desolation.
8.1 And the word of the Lord Almighty came, saying,
8.2 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; I have been
jealous for Jerusalem and for Sion with great jealousy, and I have been
jealous for her with great fury.
8.3 Thus saith the Lord; I will return to Sion,
and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a
true city, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty a holy mountain.
8.4 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; There shall
yet dwell old men and old women in the streets of Jerusalem, every one
holding his staff in his hand for age.
8.5 And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
8.6 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; If it shall
be impossible in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days,
shall it also be impossible in my sight? saith the Lord Almighty.
8.7 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Behold, I
[will] save my people from the east country, and the west country;
8.8 and I will bring them in, and cause [them]
to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be to me a people,
and I will be to them a God, in truth and in righteousness.
8.9 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Let your
hands be strong, [ye that] hear in these days these words out of the
mouth of the prophets, from the day that the house of the Lord Almighty
was founded, and from the time that the temple was built.
8.10 For before those days the wages of men could not
be profitable, and there could be no hire of cattle, and there could be
no peace by reason of the affliction to him that went out or to him
that came in: for I would have let loose all men, every one against his
neighbour.
8.11 But now I [will] not do to the remnant of this
people according to the former days, saith the Lord Almighty.
8.12 But I will shew peace: the vine shall yield her
fruit, and the land shall yield her produce, and the heaven shall give
its dew: and I will give as an inheritance all these things to the
remnant of my people.
8.13 And it shall come to pass, as ye were a curse
among the nations, O house of Juda, and house of Israel; so will I save
you, and ye shall be a blessing: be of good courage, and strengthen
your hands.
8.14 For thus saith the Lord Almighty; As I took
counsel to afflict you when your fathers provoked me, saith the Lord
Almighty, and I repented not:
8.15 so have I prepared and taken counsel in these
days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Juda: be ye of good
courage.
8.16 These [are] the things which ye shall do; speak
truth every one with his neighbour; judge truth and peaceable judgment
in your gates:
8.17 and let none of you devise evil in his heart
against his neighbour; and love not a false oath: for all these things
I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.
8.18 And the word of the Lord Almighty came to me, saying,
8.19 Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast,
and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be
to the house of Juda for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and ye
shall rejoice; and love ye the truth and peace.
8.20 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet shall many peoples come, and the inhabitants of many cities;
8.21 and the inhabitants of five cities shall come
together to one city, saying, Let us go to make supplication to the
Lord, and to seek the face of the Lord Almighty; I will go also.
8.22 And many peoples and many nations shall come to
seek earnestly the face of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem, and to
obtain favour of the Lord.
8.23 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; In those days [my
word shall be fulfilled] if ten men of all the languages of the nations
should take hold-- even take hold of the hem of a Jew, saying, We will
go with thee; for we have heard that God is with you.
9.1
The burden of the word of the Lord, in the land of Sedrach, and his
sacrifice [shall be] in Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon
all the tribes of Israel.
9.2 And in Emath, [even] in her coasts, [are] Tyre and Sidon, because they were very wise.
9.3 And Tyrus built strong-holds for herself,
and heaped up silver as dust, and gathered gold as the mire of the ways.
9.4 And therefore the Lord will take them for a
possession, and will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be
consumed with fire.
9.5 Ascalon shall see, and fear; Gaza also, and
shall be greatly pained, and Accaron; for she is ashamed at her
trespass; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ascalon shall not be
inhabited.
9.6 And aliens shall dwell in Azotus, and I will bring down the pride of the Philistines.
9.7 And I will take their blood out of their
mouth, and their abominations from between their teeth; and these also
shall be left to our God, and they shall be as a captain of a thousand
in Juda, and Accaron as a Jebusite.
9.8 And I will set up a defence for my house,
that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall there any
more come upon them one to drive them away: for now have I seen with
mine eyes.
9.9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion;
proclaim [it] aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, the King is
coming to thee, just, and a Saviour; he is meek and riding on an ass,
and a young foal.
9.10 And he shall destroy the chariots out of
Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be
utterly destroyed; and [there shall be] abundance and peace out of the
nations; and he shall rule over the waters as far as the sea, and the
rivers [to] the ends of the earth.
9.11 And thou by the blood of thy covenant has sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit that has no water.
9.12 Ye shall dwell in strongholds, ye prisoners of
the congregation: and for one day of thy captivity I will recompense
thee double.
9.13 For I have bent thee, O Juda, for myself [as] a
bow, I have filled Ephraim; and I will raise up thy children, O Sion,
against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle thee as the sword
of a warrior.
9.14 And the Lord shall be over them, and [his] arrow
shall go forth as lightning: and the Lord Almighty shall blow with the
trumpet; and shall proceed with the tumult of his threatening.
9.15 The Lord Almighty shall protect them, and they
shall destroy them, and overwhelm them with sling-stones; and they
shall swallow them down as wine, and fill the bowls as the altar.
9.16 And the Lord their God shall save them in that
day, [even] his people as a flock; for holy stones are rolled upon his
land.
9.17 For if he has anything good, and if he has
anything fair, the young [men shall have] corn, and [there shall be]
fragrant wine to the virgins.
10.1
Ask ye of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord
has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to every one
grass in the field.
10.2 For the speakers have uttered grievous things,
and the diviners [have seen] false visions, and they have spoken false
dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away
like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.
10.3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds,
and I will visit the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty shall visit his
flock, the house of Juda, and he shall make them as his goodly horse in
war.
10.4 And from him he looked, and from him he set [the
battle in order], and from him [came] the bow in anger, [and] from him
shall come forth every oppressor together.
10.5 And they shall be as warriors treading clay in
the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the
Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.
10.6 And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and
save the house of Joseph, and I will settle them; because I have loved
them: and they shall be as [if] I had not cast them off: for I am the
Lord their God, and I will hear them.
10.7 And they shall be as the warriors of Ephraim,
and their heart shall rejoice as with wine: and their children also
shall see [it], and be glad; and their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.
10.8 I will make a sign to them, and gather them in;
for I will redeem them, and they shall be multiplied according to their
number before.
10.9 And I will sow them among the people; and they
that are afar off shall remember me: they shall nourish their children,
and they shall return.
10.10 And I will bring them again from the land of Egypt,
and I will gather them in from among the Assyrians; and I will bring
them into the land of Galaad and to Libanus; and there shall not even
one of them be left behind.
10.11 And they shall pass through a narrow sea, they shall
smite the waves in the sea, and all the deep places of the rivers shall
be dried up: and all the pride of the Assyrians shall be taken away,
and the sceptre of Egypt shall be removed.
10.12 And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God; and they shall boast in his name, saith the Lord.
11.1 Open thy doors, O Libanus, and let the fire devour thy cedars.
11.2 Let the pine howl, because the cedar has fallen;
for the mighty men have been greatly afflicted: howl, ye oaks of the
land of Basan; for the thickly planted forest has been torn down.
11.3 [There is] a voice of the shepherds mourning;
for their greatness is brought low: a voice of roaring lions; for the
pride of Jordan is brought down.
11.4 Thus saith the Lord Almighty, Feed the sheep of the slaughter;
11.5 which their possessors have slain, and have not
repented: and they that sold them said, Blessed be the Lord; for we
have become rich: and their shepherds have suffered no sorrow for them.
11.6 Therefore I will no longer have mercy upon the
inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, behold, I will deliver up
the men every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of
his king; and they shall destroy the land, and I will not rescue out of
their hand.
11.7 And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the
land of Chanaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called
Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.
11.8 And I will cut off three shepherds in one month;
and my soul shall grieve over them, for their souls cried out against
me.
11.9 And I said, I will not tend you: that which
dies, let it die; and that which falls off, let it fall off; and let
the rest eat every one the flesh of his neighbour.
11.10 And I will take my beautiful staff, and cast it away,
that I may break my covenant which I made with all the people.
11.11 And it shall be broken in that day; ad the
Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know that it is the
word of the Lord.
11.12 And I will say to them, If it be good in your eyes,
give [me] my price, or refuse it. And they weighed for my price thirty
pieces of silver.
11.13 And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace,
and I will see if it is good [metal], as I was proved for their sakes.
And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the furnace
in the house of the Lord.
11.14 And I cast away [my] second rod, [even] Line, that I might break the possession between Juda and Israel.
11.15 And the Lord said to me, Take yet to thee shepherd's implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.
11.16 For, behold, I [will] raise up a shepherd against the
land: he shall not visit that which is perishing, and he shall not seek
that which is scattered, and he shall not heal that which is bruised,
nor guide that which is whole: but he shall devour the flesh of the
choice [ones], and shall dislocate the joints [of their necks].
11.17 Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the
sheep! the sword [shall be] upon the arms of such a one, and upon his
right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye
shall be utterly darkened.
12.1
The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; saith the Lord, that
stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms
the spirit of man within him.
12.2 Behold, I [will] make Jerusalem as trembling
door-posts to all the nations round about, and in Judea there shall be
a siege against Jerusalem.
12.3 And it shall come to pass in that day [that] I
will make Jerusalem a trodden stone to all the nations: every one that
tramples on it shall utterly mock at [it], and all the nations of the
earth shall be gathered together against it.
12.4 In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will
smite every horse with amazement, and his rider with madness: but I
will open mine eyes upon the house of Juda, and I will smite all the
horses of the nations with blindness.
12.5 And the catains of thousands of Juda shall say
in their hearts, We shall find for ourselves the inhabitants of
Jerusalem in the Lord Almighty their God.
12.6 In that day I will make the captains of
thousands of Juda as a firebrand among wood, and as a torch of fire in
stubble; and they shall devour on the right hand and on the left all
the nations round about: and Jerusalem shall dwell again by herself,
[even] in Jerusalem.
12.7 And the Lord shall save the tabernacles of Juda
as at the beginning, that the boast of the house of David, and the
pride of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, may not magnify themselves
against Juda.
12.8 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that]
the Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and the weak one
among them in that day shall be as David, and the house of David as the
house of God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
12.9 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] I
will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
12.10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and compassion: and they
shall look upon me, because they have mocked [me], and they shall make
lamentation for him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve
intensely, as for a firstborn [son].
12.11 In that day the lamentation in Jerusalem shall be
very great, as the mourning for the pomegranate grove cut down in the
plain.
12.12 And the land shall lament in separate families, 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;
12.13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their
wives by themselves; the family of Symeon by itself, and their wives by
themselves;
12.14 all the families that are left, each family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
13.1
In that day every place shall be opened to the house of David and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem for removal and for separation.
13.2 And it shall come to pass in that day, sath the
Lord of hosts, [that] I will utterly destroy the names of the idols
from off the land, and there shall be no longer [any] remembrance of
them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from
the land.
13.3 And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet
prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall
say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou has spoken lies in the name
of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall
bind him as he is prophesying.
13.4 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that]
the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he
prophesies; and they shall clothe themselves with a garment of hair,
because they have lied.
13.5 And [one] shall say, I am not a prophet, for I
am a tiller of the ground, for a man brought me up [thus] from my youth.
13.6 And I will say to him, What are these wounds
between thine hands? and he shall say, [Those] with which I was wounded
in my beloved house.
13.7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherds, and
against the man [who is] my citizen, saith the Lord Almighty: smite the
shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring mine hand upon the
little ones.
13.8 And it shall come to pass, [that] in all the
land, saith the Lord, two parts thereof shall be cut off and perish;
but the third shall be left therein.
13.9 And I will bring the third [part] through the
fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as
gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and
say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord [is] my God.
14.1 Behold, the days of the Lord come, and thy spoils shall be divided in thee.
14.2 And I will gather all the Gentiles to Jerusalem
to war, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the
women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but
the rest of my people shall not be utterly cut off from the city.
14.3 And the Lord shall go forth, and fight with those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of art.
14.4 And his feet shall stand in that day on the
mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount
of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the
west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the
north, and half of it to the south.
14.5 And the valley of my mountains shall be closed
up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and
shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake,
in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God shall come, and
all the saints with him.
14.6 And it shall come to pass in that day that there shall be no light,
14.7 and there shall be for one day cold and frost,
and that day [shall be] known to the Lord, and [it shall] not [be] day
nor night: but towards evening it shall be light.
14.8 And in that day living water shall come forth
out of Jerusalem; half of it toward the former sea, and half of it
toward the latter sea: and so shall it be in summer and spring.
14.9 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name one,
14.10 compassing all the earth, and the wilderness from
Gabe unto Remmon south of Jerusalem. And Rama shall remain in its
place. From the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the
gate of the corners, and to the tower of Anameel, as far as the king's
winepresses,
14.11 they shall dwell in the city; and there shall be no more any curse, and Jerusalem shall dwell securely.
14.12 And this shall be the overthrow with which the Lord
will smite all the nations, as many as have fought against Jerusalem;
their flesh shall consume away while they are standing upon their feet,
and their eyes shall melt out of their holes, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth.
14.13 And there shall be in that day a great panic from the
Lord upon them; and they shall lay hold every man of the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall be clasped with the hand of his neighbour.
14.14 Juda also shall fight in Jerusalem; and [God] shall
gather the strength of all the nations round about, gold, and silver,
and apparel, in great abundance.
14.15 And this shall be the overthrow of the horses, and
mules, and camels, and asses, and all the beasts that are in those
camps, according to this overthrow.
14.16 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall be
left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall even come up
every year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the
feast of tabernacles.
14.17 And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever of all
the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the
king, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others.
14.18 And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come;
then upon them shall be the overthrow with which the Lord shall smite
all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the feast
of tabernacles.
14.19 This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all
the nations, whosoever shall not come up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
14.20 In that day there shall be upon the bridle of every
horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in the house of
the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.
14.21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy
to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and take of
them, and shall seethe [meat] in them: and in that day there shall be
no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty.