
Zechariah

   {1:1} In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the
word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo,
the prophet, saying, {1:2} Jehovah was sore displeased with your
fathers. {1:3} Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto
you, saith Jehovah of hosts. {1:4} Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom
the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return
ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not
hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah. {1:5} Your fathers, where are
they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? {1:6} But my words and
my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not
overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of
hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to
our doings, so hath he dealt with us. {1:7} Upon the four and twentieth
day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second
year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of
Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, {1:8} I saw in the
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 there were
horses, red, sorrel, and white. {1:9} Then said I, O my lord, what are
these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee
what these are. {1:10} And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees
answered and said, These are they whom Jehovah hath sent to walk to and
fro through the earth. {1:11} And they answered the angel of Jehovah
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. {1:12} Then the angel of Jehovah answered and said, O Jehovah 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? {1:13} And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me
with good words, [even] comfortable words. {1:14} So the angel that
talked with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
{1:15} And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease;
for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the
affliction. {1:16} Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I am returned to
Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah of
hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem. {1:17} Cry
yet again, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet
overflow with prosperity; and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall
yet choose Jerusalem. {1:18} And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and,
behold, four horns. {1:19} And I said unto the angel that talked with
me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have
scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. {1:20} And Jehovah showed me
four smiths. {1:21} Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake,
saying, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man did
lift up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to cast down the
horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of
Judah to scatter it.



   {2:1} And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a
measuring line in his hand. {2:2} Then said I, Whither goest thou? And
he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth
thereof, and what is the length thereof. {2:3} And, behold, the angel
that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,
{2:4} and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying,
Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of
the multitude of men and cattle therein. {2:5} For I, saith Jehovah,
will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in
the midst of her. {2:6} Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, saith
Jehovah; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens,
saith Jehovah. {2:7} Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the
daughter of Babylon. {2:8} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory
hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that
toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. {2:9} For, behold, I will
shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served
them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me. {2:10} Sing
and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in
the midst of thee, saith Jehovah. {2:11} And many nations shall join
themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be my people; and I will
dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts
has sent me unto thee. {2:12} And Jehovah shall inherit Judah as his
portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. {2:13} Be
silent, all flesh, before Jehovah; for he is waked up out of his holy
habitation.



   {3:1} And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his
adversary. {3:2} And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O
Satan; yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this
a brand plucked out of the fire? {3:3} Now Joshua was clothed with
filthy garments, and was standing before the angel. {3:4} And he
answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take the
filthy garments from off him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have
caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with
rich apparel. {3:5} And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his
head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with
garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by. {3:6} And the angel
of Jehovah protested unto Joshua, saying, {3:7} Thus saith Jehovah of
hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge,
then thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and
I will give thee a place of access among these that stand by. {3:8}
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit
before thee; for they are men that are a sign: for, behold, I will
bring forth my servant the Branch. {3:9} For, behold, the stone that I
have set before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will
engrave the graving thereof, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will remove
the iniquity of that land in one day. {3:10} In that day, saith Jehovah
of hosts, shall ye invite every man his neighbor under the vine and
under the fig-tree.





   {4:1} And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as
a man that is wakened out of his sleep. {4:2} And he said unto me, What
seest thou? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a candlestick all of
gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon;
there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top
thereof; {4:3} and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of
the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof. {4:4} And I
answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are
these, my lord? {4:5} Then the angel that talked with me answered and
said unto me, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
{4:6} Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of
Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my
Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts. {4:7} Who art thou, O great mountain?
before Zerubbabel [thou shalt become] a plain; and he shall bring forth
the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it. {4:8} Moreover
the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {4:9} The hands of Zerubbabel
have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it;
and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. {4:10}
For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall
rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; [these
are] the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
{4:11} Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two
olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left
side thereof? {4:12} And I answered the second time, and said unto him,
What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden
spouts, that empty the golden [oil] out of themselves? {4:13} And he
answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these are? And I said, No,
my lord. {4:14} Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that
stand by the Lord of the whole earth.





   {5:1} Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a
flying roll. {5:2} And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I
answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and
the breadth thereof ten cubits. {5:3} Then said he unto me, This is the
curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one
that stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and
every one that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to
it. {5:4} I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah 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 abide in the midst of his
house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones
thereof. {5:5} Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said
unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.
{5:6} And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth
forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land {5:7}
(and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a
woman sitting in the midst of the ephah. {5:8} And he said, This is
Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he
cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. {5:9} Then lifted I up
mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the
wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork;
and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven. {5:10} Then said
I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
{5:11} And he said unto me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar:
and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.



   {6:1} And again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there
came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains
were mountains of brass. {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 grizzled strong horses. {6:4}
Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are
these, my lord? {6:5} And the angel answered and said unto me, These
are the four winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before the
Lord of all the earth. {6:6} [The chariot] wherein are the black horses
goeth forth toward the north country; and the white went forth after
them; and the grizzled went forth toward the south country. {6:7} And
the strong 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. {6:8} Then
cried he to me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, they that go toward
the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country. {6:9}
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, {6:10} Take of them of
the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come
thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of
Zephaniah, whither they are come from Babylon; {6:11} yea, take [of
them] silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of
Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest; {6:12} and speak unto
him, saying, Thus speaketh Jehovah 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 Jehovah; {6:13} even he shall build the
temple of Jehovah; 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. {6:14} And the crowns
shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son
of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah. {6:15} And they
that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye
shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this]
shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah
your God.



   {7:1} And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that
the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah in the fourth [day] of the
ninth month, even in Chislev. {7:2} Now [they of] Beth-el had sent
Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of
Jehovah, {7:3} [and] to speak unto the priests of the house of Jehovah
of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth
month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? {7:4}
Then came the word of Jehovah of hosts unto me, saying, {7:5} Speak
unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye
fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even these
seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? {7:6} And when
ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves? {7:7} [Should ye] not [hear] the words which Jehovah cried
by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity,
and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland
were inhabited? {7:8} And the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah,
saying, {7:9} Thus hath Jehovah of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true
judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother;
{7:10} and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner,
nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in
your heart. {7:11} But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the
shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. {7:12} Yea,
they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the
law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the
former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of
hosts. {7:13} And it is come to pass that, as he cried, and they would
not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of
hosts; {7:14} but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the
nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after
them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the
pleasant land desolate.



   {8:1} And the word of Jehovah of hosts came [to me], saying, {8:2}
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy,
and I am jealous for her with great wrath. {8:3} Thus saith Jehovah: I
am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and
Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of
Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain. {8:4} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts:
There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of
Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age. {8:5} And
the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the
streets thereof. {8:6} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be marvellous
in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also
be marvellous in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts. {8:7} Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country,
and from the west country; {8:8} and I will bring them, and they shall
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I
will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. {8:9} Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days
these words from the mouth of the prophets that were in the day that
the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, even the
temple, that it might be built. {8:10} For before those 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 adversary: for I set all
men every one against his neighbor. {8:11} But now I will not be unto
the remnant of this people as in the former days, saith Jehovah of
hosts. {8:12} For [there shall be] the seed of peace; the vine shall
give 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
inherit all these things. {8:13} And it shall come to pass that, as ye
were a curse among the nations, 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. {8:14} For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I
thought to do evil unto you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,
saith Jehovah of hosts, and I repented not; {8:15} so again have I
thought in these days to do good unto Jerusalem and to the house of
Judah: fear ye not. {8:16} These are the things that ye shall do: speak
ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth
and peace in your gates; {8:17} and let none of you devise evil in your
hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are
things that I hate, saith Jehovah. {8:18} And the word of Jehovah of
hosts came unto me, saying, {8:19} Thus saith Jehovah 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 truth and peace.
{8:20} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: [It shall] yet [come to pass], that
there shall come peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities; {8:21}
and the inhabitants of one [city] shall go to another, saying, Let us
go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of
hosts: I will go also. {8:22} Yea, many peoples and strong nations
shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the
favor of Jehovah. {8:23} Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days [it
shall come to pass], that ten men shall take hold, out of all the
languages of the nations, they 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.



   {9:1} The burden of the word of Jehovah upon the land of Hadrach,
and Damascus [shall be] its resting-place (for the eye of man and of
all the tribes of Israel is toward Jehovah); {9:2} and Hamath, also,
which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
{9:3} And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as
the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets. {9:4} Behold, the
Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and
she shall be devoured with fire. {9:5} Ashkelon shall see it, and fear;
Gaza also, and shall be sore pained; and Ekron, for her expectation
shall be put to shame; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and
Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. {9:6} And a bastard shall dwell in
Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. {9:7} And I
will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from
between his teeth; and he also shall be a remnant for our God; and he
shall be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. {9:8} And I
will encamp about my house against the army, that none pass through or
return; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have
I seen with mine eyes. {9:9} Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion;
shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he
is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon
a colt the foal of an ass. {9:10} And I will cut off the chariot from
Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut
off; and he shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall
be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. {9:11}
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free
thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water. {9:12} Turn you to the
stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will
render double unto thee. {9:13} For I have bent Judah for me, I have
filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up thy sons, O Zion,
against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty
man. {9:14} And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go
forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and
will go with whirlwinds of the south. {9:15} Jehovah of hosts will
defend them; and they shall devour, and shall tread down the
sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine;
and they shall be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
{9:16} And Jehovah their God will save them in that day as the flock of
his people; for [they shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted on
high over his land. {9:17} For how great is his goodness, and how great
is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine
the virgins.



   {10:1} Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain, [even
of] Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he will give them showers of
rain, to every one grass in the field. {10:2} For the teraphim have
spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told
false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like
sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd. {10:3} Mine
anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats;
for Jehovah of hosts hath visited his flock, the house of Judah, and
will make them as his goodly horse in the battle. {10:4} From him shall
come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle
bow, from him every ruler together. {10:5} And they shall be as mighty
men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the
battle; and they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the
riders on horses shall be confounded. {10:6} And I will strengthen the
house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring
them back; for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I
had not cast them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will hear
them. {10:7} And [they of] Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and
their heart shall rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shall
see it, and rejoice; their heart shall be glad in Jehovah. {10:8} I
will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they
shall increase as they have increased. {10:9} And I will sow them among
the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they
shall live with their children, and shall return. {10:10} I will bring
them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of
Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and
[place] shall not be found for them. {10:11} And he will pass through
the sea of affliction, and will smite the waves in the sea, and all the
depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be
brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart. {10:12} And I will
strengthen them in Jehovah; and they shall walk up and down in his
name, saith Jehovah.



   {11:1} Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy
cedars. {11:2} Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the
goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong
forest is come down. {11:3} A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!
for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions!
for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste. {11:4} Thus said Jehovah my
God: Feed the flock of slaughter; {11:5} whose possessors slay them,
and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be
Jehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. {11:6}
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah;
but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor'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. {11:7} So I fed the flock of
slaughter, verily the 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. {11:8} And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my
soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. {11:9} Then
said I, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and that
which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let them that are left
eat every one the flesh of another. {11:10} And I took my staff Beauty,
and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made
with all the peoples. {11:11} And it was broken in that day; and thus
the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew that it was the word
of Jehovah. {11:12} And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my
hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty [pieces]
of silver. {11:13} And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter,
the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty
[pieces] of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the house of
Jehovah. {11:14} Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that
I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. {11:15} And
Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet again the instruments of a
foolish shepherd. {11:16} For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the
land, who will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek
those that are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that
which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat [sheep], and will
tear their hoofs in pieces. {11:17} Woe to the worthless 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.



   {12:1} The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. [Thus]
saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the
foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:
{12:2} behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling unto all the
peoples round about, and upon Judah also shall it be in the siege
against Jerusalem. {12:3} And it shall come to pass in that day, that I
will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples; all that
burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the nations of
the earth shall be gathered together against it. {12:4} In that day,
saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with
madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will
smite every horse of the peoples with blindness. {12:5} And the
chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of
Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of hosts their God. {12:6} In that
day will I make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood,
and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour all the
peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and [they of]
Jerusalem shall yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
{12:7} Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory
of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be
not magnified above Judah. {12:8} In that day shall Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 of supplication;
and they shall look unto 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 first-born.
{12:11} In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as
the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. {12:12} And the
land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David
apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart,
and their wives apart; {12:13} the family of the house of Levi apart,
and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their
wives apart; {12:14} all the families that remain, every family apart,
and their wives apart.



   {13:1} In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
{13:2} And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah 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. {13:3} And it shall come to
pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother
that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou
speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother
that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth. {13:4} And
it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed
every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a
hairy mantle to deceive: {13:5} but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am
a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.
{13:6} And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds between thine
arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house
of my friends. {13:7} Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against
the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd,
and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the
little ones. {13:8} And it shall come to pass, that in all the land,
saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the
third shall be left therein. {13:9} And I will bring the third part
into 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, Jehovah is my
God.



   {14:1} Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of thee. {14:2} For I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the
houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go
forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut
off from the city. {14:3} Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight
against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. {14:4}
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft 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. {14:5} And ye shall flee by
the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach
unto Azel; yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah; and Jehovah my God
shall come, and all the holy ones with thee. {14:6} And it shall come
to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones
shall withdraw themselves: {14:7} but it shall be one day which is
known unto Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass,
that at evening time there shall be light. {14:8} And it shall come to
pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half
of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western
sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. {14:9} And Jehovah shall be
King over all the earth: in that day shall Jehovah be one, and his name
one. {14:10} All the land shall be made like the Arabah, from Geba to
Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up, and shall dwell
in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate,
unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel unto the king's
wine-presses. {14:11} And men shall dwell therein, and there shall be
no more curse; but Jerusalem shall dwell safely. {14:12} And this shall
be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have
warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they
stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their
sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. {14:13}
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah
shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of
his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his
neighbor. {14:14} And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the
wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold,
and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. {14:15} And so shall be
the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and
of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as that plague. {14:16}
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the
nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to
worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of
tabernacles. {14:17} And it shall be, that whoso of [all] the families
of the earth goeth not up unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah
of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain. {14:18} And if the family
of Egypt go not up, and come not, neither [shall it be] upon them;
there shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that
go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. {14:19} This shall be the
punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not
up to keep the feast of tabernacles. {14:20} In that day shall there be
upon the bells of the horses, HOLY UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in
Jehovah's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. {14:21} Yea,
every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Jehovah of
hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and
boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the
house of Jehovah of hosts.




