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Zechariah 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);
2 and Hamath, also, which bordereth thereon; Tyre and Sidon, because
they are very wise.
3 And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver
as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power
in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
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.
6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride
of the Philistines.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
12 Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day
do I declare that I will render double unto thee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zechariah 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.
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.
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.
4 From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail,
from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
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.
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.
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.
8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them;
and they shall increase as they have increased.
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 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.
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.
12 And I will strengthen them in Jehovah; and they shall walk up
and down in his name, saith Jehovah.
Zechariah 11
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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.
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.
4 Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;
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.
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.
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.
8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was
weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might
break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet again the instruments
of a foolish shepherd.
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.
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.
Zechariah 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:
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.
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.
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.
5 And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants
of Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of hosts their God.
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.
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.
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.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy
all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
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.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as
the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
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;
13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;
the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
14 all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives
apart.
Zechariah 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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zechariah 14
1 Behold, a day of Jehovah cometh, when thy spoil shall be divided
in the midst of thee.
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.
3 Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations,
as when he fought in the day of battle.
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.
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.
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be
light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:
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.
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.
9 And Jehovah shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall
Jehovah be one, and his name one.
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.
11 And men shall dwell therein, and there shall be no more curse;
but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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