
Zechariah

   {1:1} In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of
[1>]Yahweh[<1] came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo,
the prophet, saying, {1:2} "Yahweh was very displeased with your
fathers. {1:3} Therefore tell them: Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'Return
to me,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,' says Yahweh
of Armies. {1:4} Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former
prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now
from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear,
nor listen to me, says Yahweh. {1:5} Your fathers, where are they? And
the prophets, do they live forever? {1:6} But my words and my decrees,
which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your
fathers?

   "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined
to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so
he has dealt with us.'" {1:7} On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh
month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the
word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo,
the prophet, saying, {1:8} "I had a vision in the night, and behold, a
man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that
were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white
horses. {1:9} Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'"

   The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these
are."

   {1:10} The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are
the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."

   {1:11} They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the
myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked back and forth through the
earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."
   {1:12} Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how
long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah,
against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"

   {1:13} Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and
comforting words. {1:14} So the angel who talked with me said to me,
"Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. {1:15} I am very angry
with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased,
but they added to the calamity." {1:16} Therefore thus says Yahweh: "I
have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,"
says Yahweh of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over
Jerusalem."'

   {1:17} "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "My
cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again
comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"

   {1:18} I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns. {1:19}
I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?"

   He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah,
Israel, and Jerusalem."

   {1:20} Yahweh showed me four craftsmen. {1:21} Then I asked, "What
are these coming to do?"

   He said, "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man
lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down
the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land
of Judah to scatter it."

   {2:1} I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a
measuring line in his hand. {2:2} Then I asked, "Where are you going?"

   He said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and
what is its length."

   {2:3} Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another
angel went out to meet him, {2:4} and said to him, "Run, speak to this
young man, saying, 'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without
walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. {2:5} For
I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will
be the glory in the midst of her. {2:6} Come! Come! Flee from the land
of the north,' says Yahweh; 'for I have spread you abroad as the four
winds of the sky,' says Yahweh. {2:7} 'Come, Zion! Escape, you who
dwell with the daughter of Babylon.' {2:8} For thus says Yahweh of
Armies: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you;
for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. {2:9} For, behold,
I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who
served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.
{2:10} Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I
will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh. {2:11} Many nations shall
join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I
will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of
Armies has sent me to you. {2:12} Yahweh will inherit Judah as his
portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem. {2:13} Be
silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his
holy habitation!"

   {3:1} He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel
of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
{3:2} Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who
has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out
of the fire?"

   {3:3} Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing
before the angel. {3:4} He answered and spoke to those who stood before
him, saying, "Take the filthy garments off of him." To him he said,
"Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will
clothe you with rich clothing."

   {3:5} I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head."

   So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him; and the
angel of Yahweh was standing by. {3:6} The angel of Yahweh protested to
Joshua, saying, {3:7} "Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 'If you will walk in
my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall
judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a
place of access among these who stand by. {3:8} Hear now, Joshua the
high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men
who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch.
{3:9} For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one
stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,' says
Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one
day. {3:10} In that day,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'you will invite every
man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'"

   {4:1} The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a
man who is wakened out of his sleep. {4:2} He said to me, "What do you
see?"

   I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its
bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven
pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it; {4:3} and two
olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on
the left side of it."

   {4:4} I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying,
"What are these, my lord?"

   {4:5} Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Don't you know
what these are?"

   I said, "No, my lord."

   {4:6} Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word of
Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my
Spirit,' says Yahweh of Armies. {4:7} Who are you, great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone
with shouts of 'Grace, grace, to it!'"

   {4:8} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {4:9} "The
hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands
shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent
me to you. {4:10} Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For
these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of
Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth
through the whole earth."

   {4:11} Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the
right side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?"

   {4:12} I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive
branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden
oil out of themselves?"

   {4:13} He answered me, "Don't you know what these are?"

   I said, "No, my lord."

   {4:14} Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by
the [2>]Lord[<2] of the whole earth."

   {5:1} Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying
scroll. {5:2} He said to me, "What do you see?"

   I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and
its breadth ten cubits."

   {5:3} Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the
surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off
according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall
be cut off according to it on the other side. {5:4} I will cause it to
go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of
the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and
it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its
timber and its stones."

   {5:5} Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to
me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."

   {5:6} I said, "What is it?"

   He said, "This is the [3>]ephah[<3] basket that is appearing." He
said moreover, "This is their appearance in all the land {5:7} (and
behold, a [4>]talent[<4] of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman
sitting in the midst of the ephah basket." {5:8} He said, "This is
Wickedness"; and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket;
and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

   {5:9} Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two
women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the
wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and
the sky. {5:10} Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are
these carrying the ephah basket?"

   {5:11} He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar.
When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

   {6:1} Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots
came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains
of brass. {6:2} In the first chariot were red horses; in the second
chariot black horses; {6:3} in the third chariot white horses; and in
the fourth chariot dappled horses, all of them powerful. {6:4} Then I
asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

   {6:5} The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky,
which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. {6:6}
The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country; and
the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward the
south country." {6:7} The strong went out, and sought to go that they
might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around
and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth.

   {6:8} Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, those
who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north
country."

   {6:9} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {6:10} "Take of them of
the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the
same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where
they have come from Babylon. {6:11} Yes, take silver and gold, and make
crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the
high priest; {6:12} and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of
Armies, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up
out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh's temple; {6:13} even he
shall build Yahweh's temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit
and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the
counsel of peace shall be between them both. {6:14} The crowns shall be
to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of
Zephaniah, for a memorial in Yahweh's temple. {6:15} Those who are far
off shall come and build in Yahweh's temple; and you shall know that
Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will
diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your [5>]God[<5]."'"

   {7:1} It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of
Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the
month of Chislev. {7:2} The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem
Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh's favor, {7:3} and to speak to
the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets,
saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have
done these so many years?"

   {7:4} Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying, {7:5}
"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When
you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these
seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me? {7:6} When you
eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves? {7:7} Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the
former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and
its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"

   {7:8} The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying, {7:9} "Thus has
Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment, and show
kindness and compassion every man to his brother. {7:10} Don't oppress
the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let
none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.' {7:11} But
they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears,
that they might not hear. {7:12} Yes, they made their hearts as hard as
flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of
Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great
wrath came from Yahweh of Armies. {7:13} It has come to pass that, as
he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will
not listen," said Yahweh of Armies; {7:14} "but I will scatter them
with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus
the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor
returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

   {8:1} The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me. {8:2} Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am
jealous for her with great wrath."

   {8:3} Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in
the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;'
and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'"

   {8:4} Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Old men and old women will again
dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand
for very age. {8:5} The streets of the city will be full of boys and
girls playing in its streets."

   {8:6} Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "If it is marvelous in the eyes of
the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous
in my eyes?" says Yahweh of Armies.

   {8:7} Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Behold, I will save my people
from the east country, and from the west country; {8:8} and I will
bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they
will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in
righteousness."

   {8:9} Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you who
hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were
in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was
laid, even the temple, that it might be built. {8:10} For before those
days there was no wages for man, nor any wages for an animal; neither
was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the
adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbor. {8:11} But
now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,"
says Yahweh of Armies. {8:12} "For the seed of peace and the vine will
yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens
will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to
inherit all these things. {8:13} It shall come to pass that, as you
were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so
will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your
hands be strong."

   {8:14} For thus says Yahweh of Armies: "As I thought to do evil to
you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Armies,
"and I didn't repent; {8:15} so again have I thought in these days to
do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid. {8:16}
These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with
his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
{8:17} and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his
neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I
hate," says Yahweh.

   {8:18} The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me. {8:19} Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth
months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful
feasts. Therefore love truth and peace."

   {8:20} Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Many peoples, and the
inhabitants of many cities will yet come; {8:21} and the inhabitants of
one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us go speedily to entreat the
favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.' {8:22}
Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies
in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh." {8:23} Thus says
Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all
the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him
who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God
is with you.'"

   {9:1} An oracle.
The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach,
   and will rest upon Damascus;
for the eye of man
   and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;
{9:2} and Hamath, also, which borders on it;
   Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
{9:3} Tyre built herself a stronghold,
   and heaped up silver like the dust,
   and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
{9:4} Behold, the Lord will dispossess her,
   and he will strike her power in the sea;
   and she will be devoured with fire.
{9:5} Ashkelon will see it, and fear;
   Gaza also, and will writhe in agony;
   as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed;
   and the king will perish from Gaza,
   and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
{9:6} Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod,
   and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
{9:7} I will take away his blood out of his mouth,
   and his abominations from between his teeth;
and he also will be a remnant for our God;
   and he will be as a chieftain in Judah,
   and Ekron as a Jebusite.
{9:8} I will encamp around my house against the army,
   that none pass through or return;
   and no oppressor will pass through them any more:
   for now I have seen with my eyes.
{9:9} Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
   Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King comes to you!
   He is righteous, and having salvation;
   lowly, and riding on a donkey,
   even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
{9:10} I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,
   and the horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow will be cut off;
   and he will speak peace to the nations:
   and his dominion will be from sea to sea,
   and from the River to the ends of the earth.
{9:11} As for you also,
   because of the blood of your covenant,
   I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
{9:12} Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!
   Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
{9:13} For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.
   I have filled the bow with Ephraim;
and I will stir up your sons, Zion,
   against your sons, Greece,
   and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
{9:14} Yahweh will be seen over them;
   and his arrow will go flash like lightning;
   and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
   and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
{9:15} Yahweh of Armies will defend them;
   and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones;
   and they will drink, and roar as through wine;
   and they will be filled like bowls,
   like the corners of the altar.
{9:16} Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his
      people;
   for they are like the jewels of a crown,
   lifted on high over his land.
{9:17} For how great is his goodness,
   and how great is his beauty!
Grain will make the young men flourish,
   and new wine the virgins.
{10:1} Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time,
   Yahweh who makes storm clouds,
   and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
{10:2} 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 oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
{10:3} My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
   and I will punish the male goats;
   For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah,
   and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
{10:4} From him will come forth the cornerstone,
   from him the nail,
   from him the battle bow,
   from him every ruler together.
   {10:5} They shall be as mighty men,
   treading down muddy streets in the battle;
   and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them;
   and the riders on horses will be confounded.
{10:6} "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 on them;
   and they will be as though I had not cast them off:
   for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
{10:7} Ephraim will be like a mighty man,
   and their heart will rejoice as through wine;
   yes, their children will see it, and rejoice.
   Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
{10:8} I will signal for them, and gather them;
   for I have redeemed them;
   and they will increase as they have increased.
{10:9} I will sow them among the peoples;
   and they will remember me in far countries;
   and they will live with their children, and will return.
{10:10} 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 there won't be room enough for them.
{10:11} He will pass through the sea of affliction,
   and will strike the waves in the sea,
   and all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
   and the pride of Assyria will be brought down,
   and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
{10:12} I will strengthen them in Yahweh;
   and they will walk up and down in his name," says Yahweh.
{11:1} Open your doors, Lebanon,
   that the fire may devour your cedars.
{11:2} Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen,
   because the stately ones are destroyed.
Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
   for the strong forest has come down.
{11:3} 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 ruined.

   {11:4} Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter. {11:5}
Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them
say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't
pity them. {11:6} For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,"
says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his
neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the
land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."

   {11:7} So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of
the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and
the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock. {11:8} I cut off the
three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their
soul also loathed me. {11:9} Then I said, "I will not feed you. That
which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut
off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh." {11:10} I took
my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I
had made with all the peoples. {11:11} It was broken in that day; and
thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the
word of Yahweh. {11:12} I said to them, "If you think it best, give me
my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty
pieces of silver. {11:13} Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter,
the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty
pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.
{11:14} Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break
the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

   {11:15} Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the
equipment of a foolish shepherd. {11:16} For, behold, I will raise up a
shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither
will seek those who 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. {11:17} Woe to the worthless
shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his
right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will
be totally blinded!"

   {12:1} An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who
stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and
forms the spirit of man within him says: {12:2} "Behold, I will make
Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah
also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem. {12:3} It will happen
in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the
peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded,
and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
{12:4} In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with
terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the
house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with
blindness. {12:5} The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The
inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their
God.' {12:6} In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan
of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they
will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the
left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in
Jerusalem. {12:7} Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that
the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah. {12:8} In that day Yahweh will
defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at
that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God,
like the angel of Yahweh before them. {12:9} It will happen in that
day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against
Jerusalem. {12:10} I will pour on the house of David, and on the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and
they will look to [6>]me[<6] whom they have pierced; and they shall
mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly
for him, as one grieves for his firstborn. {12:11} In that day there
will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon
in the valley of Megiddon. {12:12} The land will 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; {12:13}
the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the
family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; {12:14} all the
families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

   {13:1} "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
{13:2} It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I
will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be
remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of
impurity to pass out of the land. {13:3} It will happen that, when
anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him
will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of
Yahweh;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when
he prophesies. {13:4} It will happen in that day, that the prophets
will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will
they wear a hairy mantle to deceive: {13:5} but he will say, 'I am no
prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a
bondservant from my youth.' {13:6} One will say to him, 'What are these
wounds between your arms?' Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was
wounded in the house of my friends.'

{13:7} "Awake, sword, against my shepherd,
   and against the man who is close to me," says Yahweh of Armies.
"Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
   and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
{13:8} It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh,
   "two parts in it will be cut off and die;
   but the third will be left in it.
{13:9} I will bring the third part into the fire,
   and will refine them as silver is refined,
   and will test them like gold is tested.
They will call on my name, and I will hear them.
   I will say, 'It is my people;'
   and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"

   {14:1} Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be
divided in your midst. {14:2} For I will gather all nations against
Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and
the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and
the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. {14:3} Then
Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought
in the day of battle. {14:4} His feet will stand in that day on the
Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount
of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great
valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it
toward the south. {14:5} You shall flee by the valley of my mountains;
for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall
flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones
with you. {14:6} It will happen in that day, that there will not be
light, cold, or frost. {14:7} It will be a unique day which is known to
Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at
evening time there will be light.

   {14:8} It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out
from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them
toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

   {14:9} Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh
will be one, and his name one. {14:10} All the land will be made like
the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be
lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the
place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of
Hananel to the king's winepresses. {14:11} Men will dwell therein, and
there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely. {14:12}
This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples
who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while
they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their
sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth. {14:13} It
will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among
them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and
his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor. {14:14} Judah
also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding
nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in
great abundance.

   {14:15} So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the
camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those
camps, as that plague. {14:16} It will happen that everyone who is left
of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to
year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of
tents. {14:17} It will be, that whoever of all the families of the
earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies,
on them there will be no rain. {14:18} If the family of Egypt doesn't
go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the
plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to
keep the feast of tents. {14:19} This will be the punishment of Egypt,
and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the
feast of tents. {14:20} In that day there will be on the bells of the
horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH"; and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like
the bowls before the altar. {14:21} Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in
Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice
will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no
longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.





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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all
caps) in other translations.

[2] {4:14} The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."

[3] {5:6}  An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U.
S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel.

[4] {5:7} A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds.

[5] {6:15} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."

[6] {12:10} After "me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the
first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a
grammatical marker.

