CHAPTERS 8-14
ZECHARIAH#8
1 ¶ Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me,
saying,
2
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great
jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
3 Thus saith the
LORD; I am returned unto 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.
4
Thus saith 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.
5 And the streets
of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
6 Thus saith the
LORD 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 the LORD of hosts.
7 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my 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 my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in
righteousness.
9 ¶ Thus saith the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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
the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to
wrath, saith the LORD 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 the LORD.
18 ¶ And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me,
saying,
19
Thus saith 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
to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the
truth and peace.
20 Thus saith the
LORD 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 the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go
also.
22 Yea, many people
and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to
pray before the LORD.
23 Thus saith the
LORD 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 that God is with you.
1 ¶ The burden of the word of the LORD 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 the LORD.
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, the Lord 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 God, 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: he 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 his 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 me, 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 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.
15 The 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.
16 And 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 upon his 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.
1 ¶ Ask ye of the LORD rain 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.
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 the LORD of hosts
hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly
horse in the battle.
4
Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the
battle bow, out of him 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 the LORD 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 the LORD their
God, 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 the LORD.
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 me 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 he 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 the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith
the LORD.
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 the LORD my God; Feed
the flock of the slaughter;
5 Whose
possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them
say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
6 For I will no
more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: 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 me 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 my soul lothed them, and
their soul also abhorred me.
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 my
staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my 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 the LORD.
12 And I said
unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they
weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13
And the LORD 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 the LORD.
14 Then I cut
asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel.
15 ¶ And the LORD 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.
1 ¶ The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith
the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD of hosts their God.
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 The 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.
8 In that day
shall the LORD 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 the LORD 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 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 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.
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 the LORD 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 the LORD: 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 him, What are these wounds in thine hands? 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 the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 my name, and I
will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall
say, The LORD is my God.
1 ¶ Behold, the day of the LORD 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 the
LORD 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 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 the LORD my
God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
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 the LORD, 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 the LORD
shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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, the LORD 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, the LORD 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 the LORD 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 THE LORD; and the
pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
21
Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD
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
the LORD of hosts.