THE BOOK ZECHARIAH
King James Version
1 ¶ In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius,
came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of
Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
2 The LORD hath
been sore displeased with your fathers.
3 Therefore say
thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD
of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 Be ye not as
your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil
doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
5 Your fathers,
where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
6 But my words
and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take
hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD
of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our
doings, so hath he 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
the LORD 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 the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
11 And they
answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We
have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth
still, and is at rest.
12
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long
wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which
thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
13 And the LORD
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 the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a
great jealousy.
15 And I am very
sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased,
and they helped forward the affliction.
16 Therefore thus
saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house
shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched
forth upon Jerusalem.
17 Cry yet,
saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be
spread abroad; and the LORD 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 the LORD
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.
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
the LORD, 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 the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the
four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
7 Deliver
thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
8 For thus saith
the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled
you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his 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 the LORD 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 the LORD.
11 And many
nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I
will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.
12 And the LORD
shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem
again.
13 Be silent, O
all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
1 ¶ And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing
before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist
him.
2 And the LORD
said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD 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 the LORD
stood by.
6 And the angel
of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
7 Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge,
then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my 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 my 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 the
LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
10 In that day,
saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine
and under the fig tree.
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 candlestick 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 the LORD unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the
LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD, 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 the Lord of the whole
earth.
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 the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief,
and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my 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.
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 the Lord 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 the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts, saying,
Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place,
and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall
build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and
rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his 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 the LORD.
15 And they that
are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know
that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your
God.
1 ¶ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king
Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the
ninth month, even in Chisleu;
2 When they had
sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men,
to pray before the LORD,
3 And to speak
unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the
prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I
have done these so many years?
4 Then came the
word of the LORD 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 me, even to me?
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 the LORD 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 the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
9 Thus speaketh
the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by
the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
13 Therefore it
is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and
I would not hear, saith the LORD 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.