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The Book of Zechariah
Chapter 1
001:001 In the eighth month, in the second year of
Darius, came the
word of the LORD
unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the
son
of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
001:002 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
001:003 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts;
Turn ye unto me,
saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn
unto
you, saith the LORD of
hosts.
001:004 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former
prophets have
cried, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now
from
your evil ways, and from your
evil doings: but they did not
hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
001:005 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets,
do they live
for ever?
001:006 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded
my servants
the prophets, did they
not take hold of your fathers? and
they
returned and said, Like as
the LORD of hosts thought to do
unto us, according to our ways, and according to our
doings,
so hath he dealt with
us.
001:007 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh
month, which
is the month Sebat,
in the second year of Darius, came
the
word of the LORD unto
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the
son
of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
001:008 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a
red horse, and
he stood among the
myrtle trees that were in the bottom;
and
behind him were there red
horses, speckled, and white.
001:009 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the
angel that
talked with me said
unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
001:010 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees
answered and
said, These are they
whom the LORD hath sent to walk to
and
fro through the earth.
001:011 And they answered the angel of the LORD that
stood among the
myrtle trees, and
said, We have walked to and fro through
the
earth, and, behold, all the
earth sitteth still, and is at
rest.
001:012 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O
LORD of hosts,
how long wilt thou
not have mercy on Jerusalem and on
the
cities of Judah, against which
thou hast had indignation these
threescore and ten years?
001:013 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with
me with good
words and comfortable
words.
001:014 So the angel that communed with me said unto me,
Cry thou,
saying, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
001:015 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen
that are at
ease: for I was but a
little displeased, and they helped
forward the affliction.
001:016 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to
Jerusalem with
mercies: my house
shall be built in it, saith the LORD
of
hosts, and a line shall be
stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
001:017 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
My cities
through prosperity shall
yet be spread abroad; and the LORD
shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
001:018 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
001:019 And I said unto the angel that talked with me,
What be these?
And he answered me,
These are the horns which have
scattered
Judah, Israel, and
Jerusalem.
001:020 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
001:021 Then said I, What come these to do? And he
spake, saying,
These are the horns
which have scattered Judah, so that no
man
did lift up his head: but
these are come to fray them, to
cast
out the horns of the
Gentiles, which lifted up their horn
over
the land of Judah to scatter
it.
002:001 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and
behold a man with
a measuring line
in his hand.
002:002 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said
unto me, To
measure Jerusalem, to
see what is the breadth thereof,
and
what is the length
thereof.
002:003 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went
forth, and
another angel went out
to meet him,
002:004 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man,
saying,
Jerusalem shall be
inhabited as towns without walls for
the
multitude of men and cattle
therein:
002:005 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall
of fire round
about, and will be
the glory in the midst of her.
002:006 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of
the north, saith
the LORD: for I
have spread you abroad as the four winds
of
the heaven, saith the LORD.
002:007 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the
daughter of
Babylon.
002:008 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the
glory hath he sent
me unto the
nations which spoiled you: for he that
toucheth
you toucheth the apple of
his eye.
002:009 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them,
and they shall
be a spoil to their
servants: and ye shall know that the
LORD
of hosts hath sent me.
002:010 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I
come, and I
will dwell in the
midst of thee, saith the LORD.
002:011 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in
that day, and
shall be my people:
and I will dwell in the midst of thee,
and
thou shalt know that the LORD
of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
002:012 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in
the holy land,
and shall choose
Jerusalem again.
002:013 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he
is raised up
out of his holy
habitation.
003:001 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing
before the
angel of the LORD, and
Satan standing at his right hand
to
resist him.
003:002 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke
thee, O Satan;
even the LORD that
hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is
not
this a brand plucked out of
the fire?
003:003 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and
stood before
the angel.
003:004 And he answered and spake unto those that stood
before him,
saying, Take away the
filthy garments from him. And unto
him
he said, Behold, I have caused
thine iniquity to pass from
thee,
and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
003:005 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his
head. So they
set a fair mitre
upon his head, and clothed him with
garments.
And the angel of the
LORD stood by.
003:006 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
003:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk
in my ways,
and if thou wilt keep
my charge, then thou shalt also judge
my
house, and shalt also keep my
courts, and I will give thee
places to walk among these that stand by.
003:008 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and
thy fellows that
sit before thee:
for they are men wondered at: for, behold,
I
will bring forth my servant the
BRANCH.
003:009 For behold the stone that I have laid before
Joshua; upon one
stone shall be
seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the
graving
thereof, saith the LORD of
hosts, and I will remove the
iniquity of that land in one day.
003:010 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye
call every man
his neighbour under
the vine and under the fig tree.
004:001 And the angel that talked with me came again,
and waked me, as
a man that is
wakened out of his sleep.
004:002 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I
have looked,
and behold a
candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the
top
of it, and his seven lamps
thereon, and seven pipes to the
seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
004:003 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right
side of the
bowl, and the other
upon the left side thereof.
004:004 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked
with me,
saying, What are these,
my lord?
004:005 Then the angel that talked with me answered and
said unto me,
Knowest thou not
what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
004:006 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This
is the word
of the LORD unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor
by
power, but by my spirit, saith
the LORD of hosts.
004:007 Who art thou, O great mountain? before
Zerubbabel thou shalt
become a
plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone
thereof
with shoutings, crying,
Grace, grace unto it.
004:008 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
004:009 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation
of this
house; his hands shall
also finish it; and thou shalt
know
that the LORD of hosts hath
sent me unto you.
004:010 For who hath despised the day of small things?
for they shall
rejoice, and shall
see the plummet in the hand of
Zerubbabel
with those seven; they
are the eyes of the LORD, which run
to
and fro through the whole
earth.
004:011 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are
these two olive
trees upon the
right side of the candlestick and upon the
left
side thereof?
004:012 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be
these two
olive branches which
through the two golden pipes empty
the
golden oil out of
themselves?
004:013 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not
what these be?
And I said, No, my
lord.
004:014 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones,
that stand by
the LORD of the
whole earth.
005:001 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and
looked, and behold
a flying
roll.
005:002 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I
answered, I see a
flying roll; the
length thereof is twenty cubits, and
the
breadth thereof ten
cubits.
005:003 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that
goeth forth over
the face of the
whole earth: for every one that stealeth
shall
be cut off as on this side
according to it; and every one
that
sweareth shall be cut off as
on that side according to it.
005:004 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts,
and it shall
enter into the house
of the thief, and into the house of
him
that sweareth falsely by my
name: and it shall remain in the
midst of his house, and shall consume it with the
timber
thereof and the stones
thereof.
005:005 Then the angel that talked with me went forth,
and said unto
me, Lift up now
thine eyes, and see what is this that
goeth
forth.
005:006 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an
ephah that
goeth forth. He said
moreover, This is their
resemblance
through all the
earth.
005:007 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of
lead: and this is
a woman that
sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
005:008 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it
into the midst
of the ephah; and
he cast the weight of lead upon the
mouth
thereof.
005:009 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and,
behold, there
came out two women,
and the wind was in their wings; for
they
had wings like the wings of a
stork: and they lifted up the
ephah between the earth and the heaven.
005:010 Then said I to the angel that talked with me,
Whither do these
bear the
ephah?
005:011 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the
land of
Shinar: and it shall be
established, and set there upon
her
own base.
006:001 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and
looked, and,
behold, there came
four chariots out from between two
mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
006:002 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the
second
chariot black horses;
006:003 And in the third chariot white horses; and in
the fourth
chariot grisled and bay
horses.
006:004 Then I answered and said unto the angel that
talked with me,
What are these, my
lord?
006:005 And the angel answered and said unto me, These
are the four
spirits of the
heavens, which go forth from standing
before
the LORD of all the
earth.
006:006 The black horses which are therein go forth into
the north
country; and the white
go forth after them; and the grisled
go
forth toward the south
country.
006:007 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that
they might walk
to and fro through
the earth: and he said, Get you hence,
walk
to and fro through the earth.
So they walked to and fro
through
the earth.
006:008 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me,
saying, Behold,
these that go
toward the north country have quieted my
spirit
in the north country.
006:009 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
006:010 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai,
of Tobijah, and
of Jedaiah, which
are come from Babylon, and come thou
the
same day, and go into the
house of Josiah the son of
Zephaniah;
006:011 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and
set them upon
the head of Joshua
the son of Josedech, the high priest;
006:012 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the
LORD of hosts,
saying, Behold the
man whose name is The BRANCH; and he
shall
grow up out of his place,
and he shall build the temple of
the
LORD:
006:013 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and
he shall bear
the glory, and shall
sit and rule upon his throne; and
he
shall be a priest upon his
throne: and the counsel of peace
shall be between them both.
006:014 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to
Tobijah, and to
Jedaiah, and to
Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial
in
the temple of the LORD.
006:015 And they that are far off shall come and build
in the temple
of the LORD, and ye
shall know that the LORD of hosts
hath
sent me unto you. And this
shall come to pass, if ye will
diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
007:001 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Darius, that
the word of the LORD
came unto Zechariah in the fourth day
of
the ninth month, even in
Chisleu;
007:002 When they had sent unto the house of God
Sherezer and
Regemmelech, and
their men, to pray before the LORD,
007:003 And to speak unto the priests which were in the
house of the
LORD of hosts, and to
the prophets, saying, Should I weep
in
the fifth month, separating
myself, as I have done these so
many years?
007:004 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
007:005 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to
the priests,
saying, When ye
fasted and mourned in the fifth and
seventh
month, even those seventy
years, did ye at all fast unto me,
even to me?
007:006 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did
not ye eat for
yourselves, and
drink for yourselves?
007:007 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath
cried by the
former prophets, when
Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when
men
inhabited the south and the
plain?
007:008 And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
007:009 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute
true
judgment, and shew mercy and
compassions every man to his
brother:
007:010 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless,
the stranger,
nor the poor; and
let none of you imagine evil against
his
brother in your heart.
007:011 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the
shoulder, and
stopped their ears,
that they should not hear.
007:012 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone,
lest they
should hear the law, and
the words which the LORD of hosts
hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore
came
a great wrath from the LORD
of hosts.
007:013 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried,
and they would
not hear; so they
cried, and I would not hear, saith the
LORD
of hosts:
007:014 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all
the nations
whom they knew not.
Thus the land was desolate after
them,
that no man passed through
nor returned: for they laid the
pleasant land desolate.
008:001 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
008:002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for
Zion with
great jealousy, and I
was jealous for her with great fury.
008:003 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion,
and will dwell
in the midst of
Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called
a
city of truth; and the mountain
of the LORD of hosts the holy
mountain.
008:004 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet
old men and old
women dwell in the
streets of Jerusalem, and every man
with
his staff in his hand for
very age.
008:005 And the streets of the city shall be full of
boys and girls
playing in the
streets thereof.
008:006 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be
marvellous in the eyes
of the
remnant of this people in these days, should it also
be
marvellous in mine eyes? saith
the LORD of hosts.
008:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will
save my people
from the east
country, and from the west country;
008:008 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in
the midst of
Jerusalem: and they
shall be my people, and I will be
their
God, in truth and in
righteousness.
008:009 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be
strong, ye
that hear in these days
these words by the mouth of the
prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of
the
house of the LORD of hosts was
laid, that the temple might be
built.
008:010 For before these days there was no hire for man,
nor any hire
for beast; neither
was there any peace to him that went out
or
came in because of the
affliction: for I set all men every
one
against his neighbour.
008:011 But now I will not be unto the residue of this
people as in
the former days,
saith the LORD of hosts.
008:012 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall
give her
fruit, and the ground
shall give her increase, and the
heavens
shall give their dew; and
I will cause the remnant of this
people to possess all these things.
008:013 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a
curse among the
heathen, O house
of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I
save
you, and ye shall be a
blessing: fear not, but let your
hands
be strong.
008:014 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought
to punish you,
when your fathers
provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD
of
hosts, and I repented not:
008:015 So again have I thought in these days to do well
unto
Jerusalem and to the house of
Judah: fear ye not.
008:016 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye
every man the
truth to his
neighbour; execute the judgment of truth
and
peace in your gates:
008:017 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts
against his
neighbour; and love no
false oath: for all these are
things
that I hate, saith the
LORD.
008:018 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
008:019 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the
fourth month,
and the fast of the
fifth, and the fast of the seventh,
and
the fast of the tenth, shall
be to the house of Judah joy and
gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth
and
peace.
008:020 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come
to pass, that
there shall come
people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
008:021 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to
another, saying,
Let us go
speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek
the
LORD of hosts: I will go
also.
008:022 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come
to seek the
LORD of hosts in
Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
008:023 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it
shall come to
pass, that ten men
shall take hold out of all languages of
the
nations, even shall take hold
of the skirt of him that is a
Jew,
saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that
God
is with you.
009:001 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land
of Hadrach, and
Damascus shall be
the rest thereof: when the eyes of man,
as
of all the tribes of Israel,
shall be toward the LORD.
009:002 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and
Zidon, though
it be very wise.
009:003 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and
heaped up
silver as the dust, and
fine gold as the mire of the streets.
009:004 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will
smite her
power in the sea; and
she shall be devoured with fire.
009:005 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall
see it, and
be very sorrowful, and
Ekron; for her expectation shall
be
ashamed; and the king shall
perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon
shall not be inhabited.
009:006 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will
cut off the
pride of the
Philistines.
009:007 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth,
and his
abominations from between
his teeth: but he that remaineth,
even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a
governor
in Judah, and Ekron as a
Jebusite.
009:008 And I will encamp about mine house because of
the army,
because of him that
passeth by, and because of him
that
returneth: and no oppressor
shall pass through them any more:
for now have I seen with mine eyes.
009:009 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O
daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy
King cometh unto thee: he is just,
and
having salvation; lowly, and
riding upon an ass, and upon a
colt the foal of an ass.
009:010 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and
the horse
from Jerusalem, and the
battle bow shall be cut off: and
he
shall speak peace unto the
heathen: and his dominion shall be
from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends
of
the earth.
009:011 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I
have sent
forth thy prisoners out
of the pit wherein is no water.
009:012 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of
hope: even to day
do I declare
that I will render double unto thee;
009:013 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow
with Ephraim,
and raised up thy
sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O
Greece,
and made thee as the sword
of a mighty man.
009:014 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his
arrow shall go
forth as the
lightning: and the LORD God shall blow
the
trumpet, and shall go with
whirlwinds of the south.
009:015 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they
shall devour,
and subdue with
sling stones; and they shall drink, and make
a
noise as through wine; and they
shall be filled like bowls,
and as
the corners of the altar.
009:016 And the LORD their God shall save them in that
day as the
flock of his people:
for they shall be as the stones of
a
crown, lifted up as an ensign
upon his land.
009:017 For how great is his goodness, and how great is
his beauty!
corn shall make the
young men cheerful, and new wine
the
maids.
010:001 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the
latter rain; so the
LORD shall
make bright clouds, and give them showers of
rain,
to every one grass in the
field.
010:002 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the
diviners have seen a
lie, and have
told false dreams; they comfort in
vain:
therefore they went their
way as a flock, they were
troubled,
because there was no
shepherd.
010:003 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds,
and I punished
the goats: for the
LORD of hosts hath visited his flock
the
house of Judah, and hath made
them as his goodly horse in the
battle.
010:004 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the
nail, out of
him the battle bow,
out of him every oppressor together.
010:005 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread
down their
enemies in the mire of
the streets in the battle: and
they
shall fight, because the LORD
is with them, and the riders on
horses shall be confounded.
010:006 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I
will save the
house of Joseph, and
I will bring them again to place
them;
for I have mercy upon them:
and they shall be as though I had
not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will
hear
them.
010:007 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man,
and their
heart shall rejoice as
through wine: yea, their children
shall
see it, and be glad; their
heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
010:008 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I
have redeemed
them: and they shall
increase as they have increased.
010:009 And I will sow them among the people: and they
shall remember
me in far
countries; and they shall live with their
children,
and turn again.
010:010 I will bring them again also out of the land of
Egypt, and
gather them out of
Assyria; and I will bring them into
the
land of Gilead and Lebanon;
and place shall not be found for
them.
010:011 And he shall pass through the sea with
affliction, and shall
smite the
waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the
river
shall dry up: and the pride
of Assyria shall be brought down,
and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
010:012 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they
shall walk up
and down in his
name, saith the LORD.
011:001 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may
devour thy
cedars.
011:002 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because
the mighty
are spoiled: howl, O ye
oaks of Bashan; for the forest of
the
vintage is come down.
011:003 There is a voice of the howling of the
shepherds; for their
glory is
spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions;
for
the pride of Jordan is
spoiled.
011:004 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
011:005 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves
not guilty:
and they that sell
them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I
am
rich: and their own shepherds
pity them not.
011:006 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the
land, saith the
LORD: but, lo, I
will deliver the men every one into
his
neighbour's hand, and into the
hand of his king: and they
shall
smite the land, and out of their hand I will not
deliver
them.
011:007 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even
you, O poor of
the flock. And I
took unto me two staves; the one I
called
Beauty, and the other I
called Bands; and I fed the flock.
011:008 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and
my soul
lothed them, and their
soul also abhorred me.
011:009 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that
dieth, let it die;
and that that
is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let
the
rest eat every one the flesh
of another.
011:010 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it
asunder, that I
might break my
covenant which I had made with all the people.
011:011 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor
of the flock
that waited upon me
knew that it was the word of the LORD.
011:012 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me
my price; and
if not, forbear. So
they weighed for my price thirty pieces
of
silver.
011:013 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the
potter: a goodly
price that I was
prised at of them. And I took the
thirty
pieces of silver, and cast
them to the potter in the house of
the LORD.
011:014 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands,
that I might
break the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel.
011:015 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet
the instruments
of a foolish
shepherd.
011:016 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land,
which shall
not visit those that
be cut off, neither shall seek the
young
one, nor heal that that is
broken, nor feed that that
standeth
still: but he shall eat
the flesh of the fat, and tear
their
claws in pieces.
011:017 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock!
the sword
shall be upon his arm,
and upon his right eye: his arm
shall
be clean dried up, and his
right eye shall be utterly
darkened.
012:001 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel,
saith the LORD,
which stretcheth
forth the heavens, and layeth the
foundation
of the earth, and
formeth the spirit of man within him.
012:002 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling
unto all the
people round about,
when they shall be in the siege
both
against Judah and against
Jerusalem.
012:003 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for
all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut
in
pieces, though all the people
of the earth be gathered
together
against it.
012:004 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every
horse with
astonishment, and his
rider with madness: and I will open
mine
eyes upon the house of Judah,
and will smite every horse of
the
people with blindness.
012:005 And the governors of Judah shall say in their
heart, The
inhabitants of
Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD
of
hosts their God.
012:006 In that day will I make the governors of Judah
like an hearth
of fire among the
wood, and like a torch of fire in a
sheaf;
and they shall devour all
the people round about, on the
right
hand and on the left: and
Jerusalem shall be inhabited again
in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
012:007 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah
first, that the
glory of the house
of David and the glory of the
inhabitants
of Jerusalem do not
magnify themselves against Judah.
012:008 In that day shall the LORD defend the
inhabitants of
Jerusalem; and he
that is feeble among them at that day
shall
be as David; and the house
of David shall be as God, as the
angel of the LORD before them.
012:009 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will seek to
destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem.
012:010 And I will pour upon the house of David, and
upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they
have
pierced, and they shall mourn
for him, as one mourneth for his
only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that
is
in bitterness for his
firstborn.
012:011 In that day shall there be a great mourning in
Jerusalem, as
the mourning of
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
012:012 And the land shall mourn, every family apart;
the family of
the house of David
apart, and their wives apart; the family
of
the house of Nathan apart, and
their wives apart;
012:013 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their
wives apart;
the family of Shimei
apart, and their wives apart;
012:014 All the families that remain, every family
apart, and their
wives apart.
013:001 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to
the house of
David and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and
for
uncleanness.
013:002 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the
LORD of
hosts, that I will cut off
the names of the idols out of the
land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I
will
cause the prophets and the
unclean spirit to pass out of the
land.
013:003 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall
yet prophesy,
then his father and
his mother that begat him shall say
unto
him, Thou shalt not live; for
thou speakest lies in the name
of
the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat
him
shall thrust him through when
he prophesieth.
013:004 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
prophets shall
be ashamed every
one of his vision, when he hath
prophesied;
neither shall they
wear a rough garment to deceive:
013:005 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an
husbandman; for man
taught me to
keep cattle from my youth.
013:006 And one shall say unto him, What are these
wounds in thine
hands? Then he
shall answer, Those with which I was wounded
in
the house of my friends.
013:007 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against
the man that
is my fellow, saith
the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd,
and
the sheep shall be scattered:
and I will turn mine hand upon
the
little ones.
013:008 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land,
saith the
LORD, two parts therein
shall be cut off and die; but the
third shall be left therein.
013:009 And I will bring the third part through the
fire, and will
refine them as
silver is refined, and will try them as gold
is
tried: they shall call on my
name, and I will hear them: I
will
say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is
my
God.
014:001 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy
spoil shall be
divided in the
midst of thee.
014:002 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem
to battle; and
the city shall be
taken, and the houses rifled, and the
women
ravished; and half of the
city shall go forth into
captivity,
and the residue of the
people shall not be cut off from
the
city.
014:003 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against
those nations,
as when he fought
in the day of battle.
014:004 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the
mount of Olives,
which is before
Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of
Olives
shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and toward
the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half
of
the mountain shall remove
toward the north, and half of it
toward the south.
014:005 And ye shall flee to the valley of the
mountains; for the
valley of the
mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye
shall
flee, like as ye fled from
before the earthquake in the days
of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come,
and
all the saints with thee.
014:006 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
light shall
not be clear, nor
dark:
014:007 But it shall be one day which shall be known to
the LORD, not
day, nor night: but
it shall come to pass, that at
evening
time it shall be
light.
014:008 And it shall be in that day, that living waters
shall go out
from Jerusalem; half
of them toward the former sea, and
half
of them toward the hinder
sea: in summer and in winter shall
it be.
014:009 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth:
in that day
shall there be one
LORD, and his name one.
014:010 All the land shall be turned as a plain from
Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem:
and it shall be lifted up, and
inhabited
in her place, from
Benjamin's gate unto the place of the
first
gate, unto the corner gate,
and from the tower of Hananeel
unto the king's winepresses.
014:011 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no
more utter
destruction; but
Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
014:012 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD
will smite all
the people that
have fought against Jerusalem; Their
flesh
shall consume away while
they stand upon their feet, and
their
eyes shall consume away in
their holes, and their tongue
shall
consume away in their
mouth.
014:013 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a
great tumult
from the LORD shall
be among them; and they shall lay
hold
every one on the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall
rise
up against the hand of his neighbour.
014:014 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the
wealth of all
the heathen round
about shall be gathered together, gold,
and
silver, and apparel, in great
abundance.
014:015 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the
mule, of the
camel, and of the
ass, and of all the beasts that shall be
in
these tents, as this
plague.
014:016 And it shall come to pass, that every one that
is left of all
the nations which
came against Jerusalem shall even go up
from
year to year to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, and to
keep the feast of tabernacles.
014:017 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of
all the
families of the earth unto
Jerusalem to worship the King, the
LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
014:018 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come
not, that have
no rain; there
shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD
will
smite the heathen that come
not up to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
014:019 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the
punishment of
all nations that
come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
014:020 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the
horses,
HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;
and the pots in the LORD's house
shall
be like the bowls before the
altar.
014:021 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall
be holiness
unto the LORD of
hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall
come
and take of them, and seethe
therein: and in that day there
shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD
of
hosts.