1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of
unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2 hath been sore displeased with your fathers.
3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith of HOSTS; Turn ye unto ,
saith of HOSTS, and I will turn unto you, saith of HOSTS.
4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying,
Thus saith of HOSTS; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from
your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto , saith .
5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for
ever?
6 But words and statutes, which I commanded servants the prophets, did
they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as
of HOSTS thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our
doings, so hath dealt with us.
7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the
month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of unto
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
8 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among
the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were
there red horses, speckled, and white.
9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked
with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are
they whom hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
11 And they answered the angel of 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.
12 Then the angel of answered and said, O LORD of HOST, how long wilt
not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which
hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
13 And answered the angel that talked with me with good words and
comfortable words.
14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith
of HOSTS; jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
15 And very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for
I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
16 Therefore thus saith ; returned to Jerusalem with mercies:
house shall be built in it, saith of HOSTS, and a line shall be
stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith of HOSTS; cities through prosperity
shall yet be spread abroad; and shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet
choose Jerusalem.
18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he
answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel,
and Jerusalem.
20 And shewed me four carpenters.
21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are
the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but
these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted
up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
~ Zechariah 2 ~
1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring
line in his hand.
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.
3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went
out to meet him,
4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be
inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle
therein:
5 For I, saith , will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be
the glory in the midst of her.
6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith
: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith
.
7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
8 For thus saith of HOSTS; After the glory hath sent me unto the
nations which spoiled you: for that toucheth you toucheth the apple of
eye.
9 For, behold, I will shake MINE hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to
their servants: and ye shall know that of HOSTS hath sent me.
10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in
the midst of thee, saith .
11 And many nations shall be joined to in that day, and shall be
people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that
of HOSTS hath sent me unto thee.
12 And shall inherit Judah portion in the holy land, and shall
choose Jerusalem again.
13 Be silent, O all flesh, before : for is raised up out of holy
habitation.
~ Zechariah 3 ~
1 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of ,
and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
2 And said unto Satan, rebuke thee, O Satan; even that
hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of
the fire?
3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.
4 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away
the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine
iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre
upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of stood by.
6 And the angel of protested unto Joshua, saying,
7 Thus saith of HOSTS; If thou wilt walk in ways, and if thou wilt
keep charge, then thou shalt also judge house, and shalt also keep
courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.
8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before
thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth
servant THE BRANCH.
9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall
be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith of
HOSTS, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day, saith of HOSTS, shall ye call every man his neighbour
under the vine and under the fig tree.
~ Zechariah 4 ~
1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is
wakened out of his sleep,
2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a
Menorah all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven
lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the
top thereof:
3 And Two Olive Trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and
the other upon the left side thereof.
4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are
these, my lord?
5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not
what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of
unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit,
saith of HOSTS.
7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with
shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
8 Moreover the word of came unto me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands
shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that of HOSTS hath sent me
unto you.
10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and
shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they
are the eyes of , which run to and fro through the whole earth.
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?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive
branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of
themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I
said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are the Two Anointed Ones, that stand by
of the whole earth.
~ Zechariah 5 ~
1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
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.
3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the
face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as
on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as
on that side according to it.
4 I will bring it forth, saith of HOSTS, and it shall enter into the
house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by NAME:
and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the
timber thereof and the stones thereof.
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.
6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that
goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all
the earth.
7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a
woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the
ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women,
and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a
stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall
be established, and set there upon her own base.
~ Zechariah 6 ~
1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came
four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were
mountains of brass.
2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black
horses;
3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and
bay horses.
4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are
these, my lord?
5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits
of the heavens, which go forth from standing before of all the earth.
6 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country;
and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south
country.
7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro
through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the
earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward
the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.
9 And the word of came unto me, saying,
10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah,
and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go
into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;
11 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the
head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh of HOSTS, saying, Behold
the man whose name is THE BRANCH; and shall grow up out of
place, and shall build the temple of :
13 Even shall build the temple of ; and shall bear the glory, and
shall sit and rule upon throne; and shall be a priest upon throne:
and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
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 .
15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of
, and ye shall know that of HOSTS hath sent me unto you. And this
shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of your .
~ Zechariah 7 ~
1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word
of came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even
in Chisleu;
2 When they had sent unto the house of Sherezer and Regemmelech, and
their men, to pray before ,
3 And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of
of HOSTS, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month,
separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
4 Then came the word of of HOSTS unto me, saying,
5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye
fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy
years, did ye at all fast unto , even to ?
6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for
yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
7 Should ye not hear the words which hath cried by the
former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities
thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?
8 And the word of came unto Zechariah, saying,
9 Thus speaketh of HOSTS, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy
and compassions every man to his brother:
10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor;
and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their
ears, that they should not hear.
12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should
hear the law, and the words which of HOSTS hath sent in spirit by
the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from of HOSTS.
13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as cried, and they would not
hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith of HOSTS:
14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew
not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor
returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
~ Zechariah 8 ~
1 Again the word of of HOSTS came to me, saying,
2 Thus saith of HOSTS; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I
was jealous for her with great fury.
3 Thus saith ; returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of
of HOSTS the holy mountain.
4 Thus saith 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.
5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the
streets thereof.
6 Thus saith of HOSTS; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of
this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in MINE eyes? saith
of HOSTS.
7 Thus saith of HOSTS; Behold, I will save people from the east
country, and from the west country;
8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and
they shall be people, and I will be their , in truth and in
righteousness.
9 Thus saith of HOSTS; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these
days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that
the foundation of the house of of HOSTS was laid, that the temple might
be built.
10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast;
neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of
the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in
the former days, saith of HOSTS.
12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and
the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I
will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the
heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall
be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
14 For thus saith of HOSTS; As I thought to punish you, when your
fathers provoked to wrath, saith of HOSTS, and I repented not:
15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the
house of Judah: fear ye not.
16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth
to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and
love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith
.
18 And the word of of HOSTS came unto me, saying,
19 Thus saith of HOSTS; The fast of the fourth month, and the
fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall
be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love
the truth and peace.
20 Thus saith of HOSTS; It shall yet come to pass,
that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us
go speedily to pray before , and to seek of HOSTS: I will go
also.
22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek of HOSTS in
Jerusalem, and to pray before .
23 Thus saith of HOSTS; In those days it shall come to pass,
that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall
take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we
have heard thatis with you.
~ Zechariah 9 ~
1 The burden of the word of in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall
be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel,
shall be toward .
2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very
wise.
3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust,
and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
4 Behold, will cast her out, 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 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.
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: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our
, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
8 And I will encamp about MINE house because of the army, because of him that
passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass
through them any more: for now have I seen with MINE eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold,
thy KING cometh unto thee: is just, and having salvation; lowly, and
riding upon an ass, and 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 heathen:
and dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the
river even to the ends of the earth.
11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy
prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that
I will render double unto thee;
13 When I have bent Judah for , filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy
sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty
man.
14 And shall be seen over them, and arrow shall go forth as the
lightning: and shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of
the south.
15 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.
16 And their shall save them in that day as the flock of
people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an
ensign upon land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. ~
~ Zechariah 10 ~
1 Ask ye of rain in the time of the latter rain; so
shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in
the field.
2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have
told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a
flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
3 MINE anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for
of HOSTS hath visited flock the house of Judah, and hath made them
as goodly horse in the battle.
4 Out of came forth the corner, out of the nail, out of the battle
bow, out of every oppressor together.
5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies
in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because
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 again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they
shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I AM their
, and 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 be glad; their heart shall rejoice in .
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 people: and they shall remember in far
countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.
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 shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves
in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of
Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
12 And I will strengthen them in ; and they shall walk up and down in
NAME, saith . ~
~ Zechariah 11 ~
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl,
O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is
spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is
spoiled.
4 Thus saith my ; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell
them say, Blessed be ; for I am rich: and their own shepherds
pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith : but, lo, I
will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of
his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not
deliver them.
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the
flock. And I took unto two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I
called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and soul lothed them, and
their soul also abhorred .
9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that
is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of
another.
10 And I took staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might
break covenant which I had made with all the people.
11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon
me knew that it was the word of .
12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give price; and if
not, forbear. So they weighed for price thirty pieces of silver.
13 And said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was
prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast
them to the potter in the house of .
14 Then I cut asunder MINE other staff, even Bands, that I might break
the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 And said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish
shepherd.
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not
visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that
that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of
the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be
upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his
right eye shall be utterly darkened. ~
~ Zechariah 12 ~
1 The burden of the word of for Israel, saith , which 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 trembling unto all the people round
about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against
Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all
that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of
the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith , I will smite every horse with astonishment, and
his rider with madness: and I will open MINE eyes upon the house of Judah, and
will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of
Jerusalem shall be my strength in of HOSTS their .
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among
the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the
people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be
inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
7 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.
8 In that day shall 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 , as the angel of 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 supplications: and they shall look upon
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for , as one mourneth for his
only son, and shall be in bitterness for , as one that is in
bitterness for his firstborn.
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
Shimei 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 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 : 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 hath prophesied; neither shall they
wear a rough garment to deceive:
5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for
man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto , What are these wounds in
hands? Then shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in
the house of friends.
7 Awake, O sword, against shepherd, and against the man that is
fellow, saith of HOSTS: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be
scattered: and I will turn MINE hand upon the little ones.
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith , two
parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left
therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as
silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on
NAME, and I will hear them: I will say, It is people: and they shall
say, is my . ~
~ Zechariah 14 ~
1 Behold, the day of cometh, and 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 go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he
fought in the day of battle.
4 And feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very
great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half
of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of
the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from
before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and my
shall come, and all the saints with .
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be
clear, nor dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to , not day, nor night:
but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the
hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.' ' ');
9 And shall be KING over all the earth: in that day shall there be ONE
LORD, and NAME one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from
Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from
the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter
destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith will smite all the people that
have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand
upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from
shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of
his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen
round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great
abundance.
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 these tents, as this plague.
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the
nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to
worship the KING, of HOSTS, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the
families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the KING, of HOSTS, even
upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain;
there shall be the plague, wherewith will smite the heathen that come
not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that
come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO
; and the pots in 's house shall be like the bowls before the
altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto of
HOSTS: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe
therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of
of HOSTS.