1:1 |
In
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, |
1:2 |
The
Lord has been very angry with your fathers: |
1:3 |
And
you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back
to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you. |
1:4 |
Be
not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came,
saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they
did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord. |
1:5 |
Your
fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for
ever? |
1:6 |
But
my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they
not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose
of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so
has he done. |
1:7 |
On
the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, 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, |
1:8 |
I
saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley,
and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours. |
1:9 |
Then
I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said
to me, I will make clear to you what they are. |
1:10 |
And
the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those
whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth. |
1:11 |
And
the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the
Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet
and at rest. |
1:12 |
Then
the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be
before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which
your wrath has been burning for seventy years? |
1:13 |
And
the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was
talking to me. |
1:14 |
And
the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say,
These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate
of Jerusalem and of Zion. |
1:15 |
And
I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was
only a little angry, they made the evil worse. |
1:16 |
So
this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies;
my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be
stretched out over Jerusalem. |
1:17 |
And
again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has
said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord
will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself. |
1:18 |
And
lifting up my eyes I saw four horns. |
1:19 |
And
I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me,
These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in
flight. |
1:20 |
And the Lord
gave me a vision of four metal-workers. |
1:21 |
Then
I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which
sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men
have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up
their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight. |
2:1 |
And
lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand. |
2:2 |
And
I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of
Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is. |
2:3 |
And
the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and,
meeting him, |
2:4 |
Said
to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled
town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her. |
2:5 |
For
I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the
glory inside her. |
2:6 |
Ho,
ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent
you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord. |
2:7 |
Ho!
Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of
Babylon. |
2:8 |
For
this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me
to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is
touching what is most dear to him. |
2:9 |
For
at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who
were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent
me. |
2:10 |
Give
songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my
resting-place among you, says the Lord. |
2:11 |
And
a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that day, and will become
my people; and I will be living among you, and you will see that the Lord of
armies has sent me to you. |
2:12 |
And
Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again
be his. |
2:13 |
Let
all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has
come from his holy resting-place. |
3:1 |
And
he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the
Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against
him. |
3:2 |
And
the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O
Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not
a burning branch pulled out of the fire? |
3:3 |
Now
Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the
angel. |
3:4 |
And
he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean
robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes; |
3:5 |
And
let them put a clean head-dress on his head. So they put a clean head-dress
on his head, clothing him with clean robes: and to him he said, See, I have
taken your sin away from you. |
3:6 |
And
the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and said, |
3:7 |
These
are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what
I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the
care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who
are there. |
3:8 |
Give
ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated
before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant
the Branch be seen. |
3:9 |
For
see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes:
see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I
will take away the sin of that land in one day. |
3:10 |
In
that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the
vine and under the fig-tree. |
4:1 |
And
the angel who was talking to me came again, awaking me as a man out of his
sleep. |
4:2 |
And
he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all
of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are
seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it; |
4:3 |
And
two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the
left. |
4:4 |
And
I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my
lord? |
4:5 |
Then
the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of
what these are? And I said, No, my lord. |
4:6 |
This
is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but
by my spirit, says the Lord of armies. |
4:7 |
Who
are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he
will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it. |
4:8 |
Then
the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
4:9 |
The
hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands
will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies
has sent me to you. |
4:10 |
For
who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad
when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he
said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go
quickly up and down through all the earth. |
4:11 |
And
I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right
side of the light-support and on the left? |
4:12 |
And
answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches,
through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out? |
4:13 |
And
he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what these are? And I said,
No, my lord. |
4:14 |
And
he said, These are the two sons of oil, whose place is by the Lord of all the
earth. |
5:1 |
Then
again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air. |
5:2 |
And
he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it
is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide. |
5:3 |
Then
he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the
land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long
enough has every taker of False oaths gone without punishment. |
5:4 |
And
I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of
the thief and into the house of him who takes a False oath by my name: and it
will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and
its stones. |
5:5 |
And
the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be
lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out. |
5:6 |
And
I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he
said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land. |
5:7 |
And
I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle
of the ephah. |
5:8 |
And
he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight
of lead on the mouth of it. |
5:9 |
And
lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their
wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah,
lifting it up between earth and heaven. |
5:10 |
And
I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the
ephah? |
5:11 |
And
he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will
make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers. |
6:1 |
And
again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming out from between the
two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. |
6:2 |
In
the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the second, black horses; |
6:3 |
And
in the third, white horses; and in the fourth, horses of mixed colour. |
6:4 |
And
I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my
lord? |
6:5 |
And
the angel, answering, said to me, These go out to the four winds of heaven
from their place before the Lord of all the earth. |
6:6 |
The
carriage in which are the black horses goes in the direction of the north
country; the white go to the west; and those of mixed colour go in the
direction of the south country. |
6:7 |
And
the red ones go to the east; and they made request that they might go up and
down through the earth: and he said, Go up and down through the earth. So
they went up and down through the earth. |
6:8 |
Then
crying out to me, he said, See, those who are going to the north country have
given rest to the spirit of the Lord in the north country. |
6:9 |
And
the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
6:10 |
Take
the offerings of those who went away as prisoners, from Heldai, Tobijah, and
Jedaiah, and from the family of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, who have come
from Babylon; |
6:11 |
And
take silver and gold and make a crown and put it on the head of
Zerubbabel; |
6:12 |
And
say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose
name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth. |
6:13 |
And
he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and the glory will be his,
and he will take his place as ruler on the seat of power; and Joshua will be
a priest at his right hand, and between them there will be a design of peace. |
6:14 |
And
the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and Jedaiah and the son of
Zephaniah, to keep their memory living in the house of the Lord. |
6:15 |
And
those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord,
and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you. |
7:1 |
And
it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord
came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month
Chislev. |
7:2 |
Now
they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for
grace from the Lord, |
7:3 |
And
to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets,
Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in
past years? |
7:4 |
Then the word
of the Lord of armies came to me, saying |
7:5 |
Say
to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food
and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these
seventy years, did you ever do it because of me? |
7:6 |
And
when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for
yourselves? |
7:7 |
Are
not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when
Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and
the South and the Lowland were peopled? |
7:8 |
And the word of
the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, |
7:9 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in
good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother: |
7:10 |
Do
not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a
strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart
against your brother. |
7:11 |
But
they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears
from hearing; |
7:12 |
And
they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give
ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier
prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies. |
7:13 |
And
it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not
give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies: |
7:14 |
But
with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they
had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went
through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land. |
8:1 |
And the word
of the Lord of armies came to me, saying, |
8:2 |
These
are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am
angry about her with great wrath. |
8:3 |
This
is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my
living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good
faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain. |
8:4 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old
women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his
hand because he is so old. |
8:5 |
And
the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its
open spaces. |
8:6 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this
people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies. |
8:7 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people
from the east country, and from the west country; |
8:8 |
And
I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a
people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness. |
8:9 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are
now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in
the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in
place for the building of the house, that is the Temple. |
8:10 |
For
before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a
beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in,
because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour. |
8:11 |
But
now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the
Lord of armies. |
8:12 |
For
I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the
land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will
give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage. |
8:13 |
And
it will come about that, as you were a curse among the nations, O children of
Judah and children of Israel, so I will give you salvation and you will be a
blessing: have no fear and let your hands be strong. |
8:14 |
For
this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to
you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose
was not changed: |
8:15 |
So
in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the
children of Judah: have no fear. |
8:16 |
These
are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is True to his
neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns. |
8:17 |
Let
no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no
love for False oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the
Lord. |
8:18 |
And the word
of the Lord of armies came to me, saying, |
8:19 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of going without food in the
fourth month and in the fifth and the seventh and the tenth months, will be
for the people of Judah times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good
faith and of peace. |
8:20 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again come about that when
peoples and those living in great towns come, |
8:21 |
And
the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a
request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies,
then I will go with you. |
8:22 |
And
great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of
armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord. |
8:23 |
This
is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the
languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the
skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to
our ears that God is with you. |
9:1 |
A
word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is
his resting-place: for the towns of Aram are the Lord's, |
9:2 |
As
well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are
very wise. |
9:3 |
And
Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and
the best gold like the earth of the streets. |
9:4 |
See,
the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and
she will be burned up with fire. |
9:5 |
Ashkelon
will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will
be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be
unpeopled. |
9:6 |
And
a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the
Philistines cut off. |
9:7 |
And
I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from
between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he
will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem. |
9:8 |
And
I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no
coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I
have seen his trouble. |
9:9 |
Be
full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O daughter of Jerusalem:
see, your king comes to you: he is upright and has overcome; gentle and
seated on an ass, on a young ass. |
9:10 |
And
he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from
Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace
to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to
the ends of the earth. |
9:11 |
And
as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your
prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water. |
9:12 |
And
they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I
say to you that I will give you back twice as much; |
9:13 |
For
I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of
the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O
Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war. |
9:14 |
And
the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the
thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the
storm-winds of the South. |
9:15 |
The
Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing
under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine:
they will be full like the sides of the altar. |
9:16 |
And
the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like
the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining
over his land. |
9:17 |
For
how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and
new wine the virgins. |
10:1 |
Make
your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to
the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain,
to every man grass in the field. |
10:2 |
For
the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen
deceit; they have given accounts of False dreams, they give comfort to no
purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they
have no keeper. |
10:3 |
My
wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment
on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people
of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight. |
10:4 |
From
him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from
him will come every ruler; |
10:5 |
Together
they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of
the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them:
and the horsemen will be shamed. |
10:6 |
And
I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the
children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had
mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord
their God and I will give them an answer. |
10:7 |
And
Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with
wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in
the Lord. |
10:8 |
With
the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to
make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased. |
10:9 |
Though
I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far
countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back. |
10:10 |
And
I will make them come back out of the land of Egypt, and will get them
together out of Assyria; and I will take them into the land of Gilead, and it
will not be wide enough for them. |
10:11 |
And
they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile
will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of
Egypt will be taken away. |
10:12 |
And
their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride will be in his name, says
the Lord. |
11:1 |
Let
your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your
cedars. |
11:2 |
Give
a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones
have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong
trees of the wood have come down. |
11:3 |
The
sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made
waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of
Jordan is made waste. |
11:4 |
This
is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death; |
11:5 |
Whose
owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price
for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers
of the flock have no pity for them. |
11:6 |
For
I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I
will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his
king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from
their hands. |
11:7 |
So
I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the
flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other
Bands; and I took care of the flock. |
11:8 |
And
in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was
tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me. |
11:9 |
And
I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its
fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one
another's flesh for food. |
11:10 |
And
I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement,
which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken. |
11:11 |
And
it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were
certain that it was the word of the Lord. |
11:12 |
And
I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do
not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of
silver. |
11:13 |
And
the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was
valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the
store-house in the house of the Lord. |
11:14 |
Then
I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the
relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken. |
11:15 |
And
the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of
sheep. |
11:16 |
For
see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that
which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well
what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will
take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken. |
11:17 |
A
curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be
on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye
will be made completely dark. |
12:1 |
The
word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out
and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside
him, has said: |
12:2 |
See,
I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about,
when Jerusalem is shut in. |
12:3 |
And
it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great
weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded;
and all the nations of the earth will come together against it. |
12:4 |
In
that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every
horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah,
and I will make every horse of the peoples blind. |
12:5 |
And
the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have
their strength in the Lord of armies, their God. |
12:6 |
In
that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among
trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction
on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and
Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in
Jerusalem. |
12:7 |
And
the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, so that the glory
of the family of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be
greater than that of Judah. |
12:8 |
In
that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of Jerusalem; and he who is
feeble among them in that day will be as strong as David, and the family of
David will be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them. |
12:9 |
And
it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of
all the nations who come against Jerusalem. |
12:10 |
And
I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the
spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who
was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only
son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing
for his oldest son. |
12:11 |
In
that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of
Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. |
12:12 |
And
the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of
David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by
themselves, and their wives by themselves; |
12:13 |
The
family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of
Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves; |
12:14 |
And
all the other families by themselves, and their wives by themselves. |
13:1 |
In
that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the
people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean. |
13:2 |
And
it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the
names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory
of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from
the land. |
13:3 |
And
if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who
gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying
what is False in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put
a sword through him when he does so. |
13:4 |
And
it will come about in that day that the prophets will be shamed, every man on
account of his vision, when he is talking as a prophet; and they will not put
on a robe of hair for purposes of deceit: |
13:5 |
But
he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an
owner of land from the time when I was young. |
13:6 |
And
if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will
say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. |
13:7 |
Awake!
O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says
the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will
go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones. |
13:8 |
And
it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will
be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there. |
13:9 |
And
I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is
made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their
prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and
they will say, The Lord is my God. |
14:1 |
See,
a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken
by force before your eyes. |
14:2 |
For
I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the
town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women
taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of
the people will not be cut off from the town. |
14:3 |
Then
the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day
of the fight. |
14:4 |
And
in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite
Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle
to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the
mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south. |
14:5 |
And
the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in flight as you went in
flight from the earth-shock in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the
Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones with him. |
14:6 |
And in that
day there will be no heat or cold or ice; |
14:7 |
And
it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of
day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light. |
14:8 |
And
on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to
the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter
it will be so. |
14:9 |
And
the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day there will be one Lord
and his name one. |
14:10 |
And
all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be living in her place; from the
doorway of Benjamin to the place of the first doorway, to the doorway of the
angle, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men
will be living in her. |
14:11 |
And
there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without fear of
danger. |
14:12 |
And
this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which
have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while
they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their
tongues in their mouths. |
14:13 |
And
it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the
Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will
be lifted against his neighbour's. |
14:14 |
And
even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the
nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver
and clothing. |
14:15 |
And
the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and the asses and all the
beasts in those tents will be attacked by the same disease. |
14:16 |
And
it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations
who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to
the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents. |
14:17 |
And
it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to
Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will
be no rain. |
14:18 |
And
if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by
the disease which the Lord will send on the nations: |
14:19 |
This
will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do
not go up to keep the feast of tents. |
14:20 |
On
that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots
in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar. |
14:21 |
And
every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and
all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their
offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord
of armies. |
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