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Zechariah 1
1In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah,
the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2The LORD has been sore displeased
with your fathers. 3Therefore say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn to me, says the
LORD of hosts and I will turn to you, says the LORD of hosts. 4Do not be as your fathers, to
whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Turn you now from
your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the
LORD. 5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 6But 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 the LORD of hosts thought to do to us, according to our
ways and according to our doings, so has he dealt with us.
7On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second
year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo
the prophet, saying, 8I saw by night and behold a man riding on a red horse and he stood among
the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were red horses, speckled and
white. 9Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I
will show you what these are. 10And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and
said, These are those whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 11And 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 sits still and is at rest. 12Then the angel of
the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem
and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years? 13And
the LORD answered the angel who talked with me with good words and comfortable words. 14So
the angel that communed with me said to me, Cry, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; I am
jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. 15And 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. 16Therefore thus says the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house
shall be built in it, says the LORD of hosts and a line shall be stretched forth on Jerusalem.
17Cry yet, My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; says the
LORD of hosts and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.
18Then I lifted up my eyes and saw and behold four horns. 19And I said to the angel who
talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered
Judah, Israel and Jerusalem. 20And the LORD showed me four carpenters. 21Then I said, What
do these come to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so
that no man lifted up his head: but these are come to cause them to fear, to cast out the horns of the
Gentiles, who lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
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Chapter 2
1I lifted up my eyes again and looked and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
2Then I said, Where are you going? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what the
breadth of it is and what the length of it is. 3And, behold, the angel that talked with me went out,
and another angel went out to meet him, 4And said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying,
Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle there:
5For I, says the LORD, will be to her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst
of her.
6Ho, ho, come out and flee from the land of the north, says the LORD: for I have spread you
abroad as the four winds of the heaven, says the LORD. 7Deliver yourself, O Zion, who dwells
with the daughter of Babylon. 8For thus says the LORD of hosts; After glory he has sent me
to the nations which spoiled you: for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. 9For,
behold, I will shake my hand on them and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and you shall
know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.
10Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come and I will dwell in the midst of you,
says the LORD. 11And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day and shall be my
people: and I will dwell in the midst of you and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent
me to you. 12And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land and shall choose
Jerusalem again. 13Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy
habitation.
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Chapter 3
1And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD and Satan
standing at his right hand to resist him. 2And the LORD said to Satan, The LORD rebuke you,
O Satan; even the LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? 3Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel. 4And he
answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from
him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you and I will clothe
you with a change of raiment. 5And I said, Let them set a fair mitre on his head. So they set a fair
mitre on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by. 6And
the angel of the LORD protested to Joshua, saying, 7Thus says the LORD of hosts; If you will
walk in my ways and if you will keep my charge, then you shall also judge my house and shall
also keep my courts and I will give you places to walk among these that stand by.
8Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you: for they are
men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. 9For behold the stone
that I have laid before Joshua; on one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the
engraving of it, says the LORD of hosts and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10In that day, says the LORD of hosts, you shall call every man his neighbor under the vine and
under the fig tree.
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Chapter 4
1And the angel that talked with me came again and waked me, as a man that is awakened
out of his sleep, 2And said to me, What do you see? And I said, I have looked and behold a
candlestick all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it and seven lamps on it and seven pipes to
the seven lamps, which are on the top of it: 3And two olive trees by it, one on the right side of
the bowl and the other on its left side of. 4So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with
me, saying, What are these, my lord? 5Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to
me, Know you not what these are? And I said, No, my lord. 6Then he answered and spoke to me,
saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by
my spirit, says the LORD of hosts. 7Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you
shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone of it with shoutings, crying, Grace,
grace to it. 8Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9The hands of Zerubbabel have laid
the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of
hosts has sent me to you. 10For who has 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.
11Then I answered and said to him, What are these two olive trees on the right side of the
candlestick and on its left side? 12And I answered again and said to him, What are these two
olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13And he answered me and said, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
14Then he said, These are the two anointed ones, who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
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Chapter 5
1Then I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked,
and behold a flying scroll. 2And he said to
me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying scroll; the length of it is twenty cubits and
the breadth of it ten cubits. 3Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes out over the face of
the whole earth: for every one who steals shall be cut off on this side according to it; and
every one who swears shall be cut off on that side according to it. 4I will bring it out, says the
LORD of hosts and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who
swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it
with its timber and its stones.
5Then the angel who talked with me went forth and said to me, Lift up now your eyes and
see what this is that goes forth. 6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes
forth. He also said, This is their resemblance through all the earth. 7And, behold, there was lifted
up a talent of lead: and there is a woman who sits in the midst of the ephah. 8And
he said, She
is wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead on its
mouth. 9Then I lifted up my eyes and looked and, behold, two women came out 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. 10Then I said to the angel who talked with me, Where do these
bear the ephah? 11And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be
established and set there on her own base.
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Chapter 6
1And I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked,
and, behold, four chariots came out
from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. 2In the first chariot
were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; 3And in the third chariot white horses;
and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses. 4Then I answered and said to the angel who
talked with me, What are these, my lord? 5And the angel answered and said to me, These are the
four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. 6The
black horses which are in side go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them;
and the grisled go forth toward the south country. 7And the bay went forth and sought to go so
that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you from here, walk to and fro
through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth. 8Then he cried to me and spoke
to me, saying, Behold, these who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north
country.
9And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 10Take from them of the captivity, even of
Heldai, of Tobijah and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon and you come the same day,
and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; 11Then take silver and gold and make
crowns and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; 12And speak to
him, saying, Thus speaks 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:
13Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule
on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between
them both. 14And the crowns shall be a memorial in the temple of the LORD to Helem and to
Tobijah and to Jedaiah and to Hen the
son of Zephaniah. 15And those who are far off shall
come and build in the temple of the LORD and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent
me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your
God.
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Chapter 7
1And in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came to
Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; 2When they had sent to the
house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech and their men, to pray before the LORD, 3And to
speak to the priests who 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 many years?
4Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 5Speak to all the people of the land and to
the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those
seventy years, did you fast at all to me, even to me? 6And when you ate and when you
drank, did
you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves? 7Should you not hear the words which the
LORD has cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity and
the cities of it round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
8And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying, 9Thus speaks the LORD of hosts,
saying, Execute true judgment and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
10And 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. 11But they refused to listen and pulled away the
shoulder and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. 12Yes, they made their hearts as an
adamant stone, lest they should hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent in
his spirit by the former prophets: therefore a great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
13Therefore as he cried and they would not hear, so they cried and I
would not hear, says the LORD of hosts: 14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the
nations whom they did not know. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed
through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
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Chapter 8
1Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 2Thus says the LORD of hosts; I
was jealous for Zion with great jealousy and I was jealous for her with great fury. 3Thus says the
LORD; I am returned to 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. 4Thus says 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. 5And the streets of the city shall be full of boys
and girls playing in its streets. 6Thus says the LORD of hosts; If it is marvellous in the eyes of
the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes? says the LORD
of hosts. 7Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country,
and from the west country; 8And 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.
9Thus says the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, you 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. 10For before these days there was no
hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in
because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbor.
11But now I will not be as in the former days
to the residue of this people, says the LORD of hosts. 12For 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. 13And as you were a curse among the heathen, O house of
Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your
hands be strong. 14For thus says the LORD of hosts. As I thought to punish you, when your
fathers provoked me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts and I repented not: 15So again I have
thought in these days to do well to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear not. 16These are the
things that you shall do; Speak every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment of
truth and peace in your gates: 17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his
neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.
18And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 19Thus says the LORD of hosts;
The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of
the tenth, shall be joy and gladness to the house of Judah and cheerful feasts; therefore love the
truth and peace. 20Thus says the LORD of hosts, People shall come and the inhabitants of many cities
21And 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. 22Yes, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in
Jerusalem and to pray before the LORD. 23Thus says the LORD of hosts; In those days ten men shall take
hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take
hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is
with you.
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Chapter 9
1The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach and Damascus shall be the rest
of it: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD. 2And
Hamath also shall border there;
Tyre and Sidon, though it be very wise. 3And Tyre built herself
a strong hold and heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mire of the streets. 4Behold,
the Lord will cast her out and he will strike her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with
fire. 5Ashkelon 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. 6And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
7And I will take away his blood out of his mouth and his abominations from between his teeth:
but he who remains, even he, shall be for our God and he shall be as a governor in Judah and
Ekron as a Jebusite. 8And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of him
who passes by and because of him who returns: and no oppressor shall pass through them any
more: for now have I seen with my eyes.
9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King
comes to you: he is just and having salvation; lowly and riding on an ass and on a colt the foal
of an ass. 10And 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 to the heathen: and his dominion shall be
from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. 11As for you also, by the blood of
your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit in which is no water.
12Turn to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render
double to you;
13When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim and raised up your
sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece and made you as the sword of a mighty man. 14And
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. 15The 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.
16And 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 on his land. 17For how great is his goodness,
and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful and new wine the maids.
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Chapter 10
1Ask rain of the LORD 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. 2For 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. 3My anger was
kindled against the shepherds and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts has visited his
flock the house of Judah and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle. 4Out of him came
forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor
together.
5And 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. 6And 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 on them: and they shall be as though
I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God and will hear them. 7And they of Ephraim
shall be like a mighty man and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yes, their children shall
see it and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD. 8I will hiss for them and gather them;
for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. 9And 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. 10I 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. 11And he shall pass through the sea with affliction and shall strike 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. 12And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and
they shall walk up and down in his name, says the LORD.
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Chapter 11
1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. 2Howl, fir tree; for the
cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the
vintage is come down. 3There 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.
4Thus says the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5Whose possessors kill them,
and do not hold themselves guilty: and those who sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am
rich: and their own shepherds do not pity them. 6For I will not pity the inhabitants of the land any
more says the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand and into
the hand of his king: and they shall strike the land and I will not deliver them out of their hand.
7And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took two staves to
me; the one I called Beauty and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. 8 I cut off also
three shepherds in one month; and my soul loathed them and their soul also abhorred me. 9Then
I said, I will not feed you: that which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut
off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. 10And I took my staff, even Beauty and
cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. 11And it was
broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock who waited on me knew that it was the word of
the LORD. 12And I said to them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So
they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13And the LORD said to me, Cast it to 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. 14Then I cut asunder my other staff, even Bands,
that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15And the LORD said to me, Take to yourself yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. 16For,
lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those who are cut off, neither shall
seek the young one, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which stands still: but he shall
eat the flesh of the fat and tear their claws in pieces. 17Woe to the idle shepherd who leaves the
flock! the sword shall be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up and his
right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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Chapter 12
1The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, who stretches out the
heavens and lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him. 2Behold, I
will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all the people round about, when Judah shall be in the
siege against Jerusalem. 3And in that day I will make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all people: all who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though
all the people of the earth are gathered together against it. 4In that day, says the LORD, I will
strike every horse with astonishment and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes on the
house of Judah and will strike every horse of the people with blindness. 5And the governors of
Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of
hosts their God. 6In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a 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. 7The 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. 8In
that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he who 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.
9And in that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations who come
against Jerusalem. 10And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look on me whom they have pierced and
they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him, as
one who is in bitterness for his firstborn. 11In that day shall there be a great mourning in
Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12And 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; 13The family of the house of Levi
apart and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart and their wives apart; 14All the families
who remain, every family apart and their wives apart.
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Chapter 13
1In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. 2And in that day, says the LORD of
hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they shall not be remembered
any more and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. 3And
when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who begot him shall say to him,
You shall not live for you speak lies in the name of the LORD and
his father and his mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies 4And in that day,
every one of the prophets shall be ashamed of his vision, when he has prophesied. Neither shall they wear a rough garment
to deceive 5But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman
for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. 6And one
shall say to him, What are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which
I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7Awake, O sword, against my shepherd and against the man who is my fellow, says the
LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand on
the little ones. 8And the LORD says, in all the land, two parts in it shall
be cut off and die but the third shall be left in it. 9And 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.
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Chapter 14
1Behold, the day of the LORD comes and your spoil shall be divided in the midst of you.
2For 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. 3Then shall the LORD go forth and fight
against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4And 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 in the midst of it 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.
5And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to
Azal: yes, you shall flee, like you 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 you. 6And in that day
the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7But it shall be one day which shall
be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but at evening time it shall
be light.
8And 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: it shall be in summer and in
winter. 9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one LORD,
and his name one. 10All 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 to the place
of the first gate, to the corner gate and from the tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.
11And men shall dwell in it and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be
safely inhabited. 12And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the people
who have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their
feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes and their tongue shall consume away in
their mouth. 13And in that day a great tumult from the LORD shall be
among them and every one shall lay hold on the hand of his neighbor and his hand shall
rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14And Judah shall also fight against Jerusalem and the
wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold and silver and apparel in
great abundance. 15And so this plague shall be as 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.
16And every one who 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. 17And who ever will not come up of all the families
of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there shall be no rain on them.
18And if the family of Egypt does not go up and does not come, they shall have no rain; there shall
be the plague, with which the LORD will strike the heathen who do not come up to keep the
feast of tabernacles. 19This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all nations
who do not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 20In that day HOLINESS To THE LORD shall be on the bells of
the horses and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the
bowls before the altar. 21Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD
of hosts and all those who sacrifice shall come and take from them and boil in them and in that
day there shall be no Canaanite any more in the house of the LORD of hosts.
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