Zechariah

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Area	Total	Changed	%
Verses	211	130	61.61%
Words	4104	376	9.16%

Verses

1:3	So tell the people:, ‘This is what the Lord of HostsArmies says: Return to Me”—me — this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“Armies — and I will return to you, says the Lord of HostsArmies.
1:4	Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of HostsArmies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to Me”—me — this is the Lord’s declaration.
1:5	“Where are your ancestors now? And do the prophets live forever?
1:6	But didn’t Mymy words and Mymy statutes that I commanded Mymy servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? They’” So the people repented and said:, “As the Lord of HostsArmies purposeddecided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so Hehe has dealt with us.”
1:8	I looked out in the night and saw a man riding on a redchestnut horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the valley. Behind him were redchestnut, sorrelbrown, and white horses.
1:11	They reported to the Angelangel of the Lord standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and right now the whole earth is calm and quiet.”
1:12	Then the Angelangel of the Lord responded, “How long, Lord of HostsArmies, will Youyou withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that Youyou have been angry with these 70seventy years?”
1:14	So the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim: The Lord of HostsArmies says: I am extremely jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.
1:15	I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease, for I was a little angry, but they made itthe destruction worse.
1:16	Therefore, this is what the Lord says: In mercy, I have returned to Jerusalem; Mymy house will be rebuilt within it”— — this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“Armies — and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.
1:17	“Proclaim further: This is what the Lord of HostsArmies says: My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will once more comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”
1:21	I asked, “What are they coming to do?” He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so no one could raise his head. These craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off the horns of the nations that raised theira hornshorn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
2:4	He said to him, “Run and tell this young man: Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the number of people and livestockanimals in it.”
2:5	The declaration of the Lord: “I myself will be a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory within it.”
2:6	“GetListen! upListen! LeaveFlee from the land of the north”—”  — this is the Lord’s declaration—“ — “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven”—” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
2:7	“GoListen, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon.”
2:8	For the Lord of HostsArmies says this: “HeIn haspursuit sentof Mehis forglory, Hishe glorysent me against the nations who are plundering you, for anyonewhoever who touches you touches the pupil of Hismy eye.
2:9	For look, I willam moveraising my hand against them with My power, and they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the Lord of HostsArmies has sent Meme.
2:10	“Daughter Zion, shout for joy and be glad, for I am coming to dwell among you”—” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
2:11	“Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and become Mymy people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of HostsArmies has sent Meme to you.
2:12	The Lord will take possession of Judah as Hishis portion in the Holy Land, and Hehe will once again choose Jerusalem.
2:13	Let all peoplehumanity be silent before the Lord, for Hefrom ishis comingholy fromdwelling Hishe holyhas dwellingroused himself.”
3:1	Then he showed me Joshua the high priest Joshua standing before the Angelangel of the Lord, with Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.
3:2	The Lord said to Satan:, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! May the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
3:3	Now Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the Angelangel.
3:4	So the Angelangel of the Lord spoke to those standing before Himhim, “Take off his filthy clothes!” Then Hehe said to him, “See, I have removed your guiltiniquity from you, and I will clothe you with splendidfestive robes.”
3:5	Then I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So a clean turban was placed on his head, and they clothed him in garments while the Angelangel of the Lord was standing nearby.
3:6	Then the Angelangel of the Lord charged Joshua:,
3:7	“This is what the Lord of HostsArmies says: If you walk in Mymy ways and keep Mymy instructionsmandates, you will both rule Mymy house and take care of Mymy courts; I will also grant you access among these who are standing here.
3:8	“Listen, JoshuaHigh thePriest high priestJoshua, you and your colleagues sitting before you; indeed, these men are a sign that I am about to bring Mymy servant, the Branch.
3:9	Notice the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave an inscription on it”—” — this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“Armies — “and I will take away the guiltiniquity of this land in a single day.
3:10	On that day, each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree.” This is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies.
4:2	He asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a solid gold lampstand there with a bowl onat itsthe top. ItThe lampstand also has seven lamps onat itthe andtop with seven channelsspouts for each of the lamps on its top.
4:6	So he answered me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by Mymy Spirit,’ says the Lord of HostsArmies.
4:7	‘What are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it!’”! ’”
4:9	“Zerubbabel’s hands have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of HostsArmies has sent me to you.
4:10	For who scornsdespises the day of small things? These seven eyes of the Lord, which scan throughout the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumbceremonial linestone in Zerubbabel’s hand.”
4:12	And I questioned him further, “What are the two olivestreams branchesof beside the twoolive gold conduitstrees, from which the golden oil poursis outpouring through the two golden conduits?”
5:2	“What do you see?” he asked me. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “30thirty feet long and 15fifteen feet wide.”
5:3	Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyeveryone thiefwho willis bea removedthief, accordingcontrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who swears falsely, willcontrary be removed according to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.
5:4	I will send it out,”—,”  — this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“Armies — “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by Mymy name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”
6:1	Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from between two mountains. AndThe the mountains were made of bronze.
6:2	The first chariot had redchestnut horses, the second chariot black horses,
6:3	the third chariot white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses — all strong horses.
6:8	Then Hehe summoned me saying, “See, those going to the land of the north have pacified Mymy Spirit in the northern land.”
6:11	Take silver and gold, make crownsa crown, and place themit on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
6:12	You are to tell him: This is what the Lord of HostsArmies says: Here is a man whose name is Branch; Hehe will branch out from Hishis place and build the Lord’s temple.
6:13	Yes, Hehe will build the Lord’s temple; Hehe will bebear clothedroyal in splendor and will sit on Hishis throne and rule. There will also be a priest on Hishis throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two of them.
6:15	People who are far off will come and build the Lord’s temple, and you will know that the Lord of HostsArmies has sent Meme to you. This will happen when you fully obey the Lord your God.”
7:3	by asking the priests who were at the house of the Lord of HostsArmies as well as the prophets, “Should we mourn and fast in the fifth month as we have done these many years?”
7:4	Then the word of the Lord of HostsArmies came to me:
7:5	“Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these 70seventy years, did you really fast for Meme?
7:9	“The Lord of HostsArmies says this: ‘Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another.
7:10	Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreignerresident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one another..’
7:12	They made their hearts like a rock so as not to obey the law or the words that the Lord of HostsArmies had sent by Hishis Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore greatintense anger came from the Lord of HostsArmies.
7:13	Just as Hehe had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen,”, says the Lord of HostsArmies.
7:14	“I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”
8:1	The word of the Lord of HostsArmies came:
8:2	“The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “I am extremely jealous for Zion; I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
8:3	The Lord says this: “I will return to Zion and live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City,; the mountain of the Lord of Hosts,Armies andwill be called the Holy Mountain.”
8:4	The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “Old men and women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of advanced age.
8:6	The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “Though it may seem incredibleimpossible to the remnant of this people in those days, should it also seem incredibleimpossible to Me?”—me?” — this is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies.
8:7	The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “I will save Mymy people from the land of the east and the land of the west.
8:8	I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem. They will be Mymy people, and I will be their faithful and righteous God.”
8:9	The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words that the prophets spoke when the foundations were laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of the Lord of HostsArmies.
8:10	For prior to those days neither manpeople nor beastanimals had wages. There was no safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I turned everyone against his neighbor.
8:11	But now, I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days”—” — this is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies.
8:14	For the Lord of HostsArmies says this: “As I resolved to treat you badly when your fathersancestors provoked Meme to anger, and I did not relent,” says the Lord of HostsArmies,
8:16	These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another; make true and sound decisions within your city gates.
8:17	Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this”—” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
8:18	Then the word of the Lord of HostsArmies came to me:
8:19	“The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.”
8:20	The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “Peoples will yet come, the residents of many cities;
8:21	the residents of one city will go to another, saying: Let’s go at once to plead for the Lord’s favor and to seek the Lord of HostsArmies. I am also going.
8:22	Many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of HostsArmies in Jerusalem and to plead for the Lord’s favor.”
8:23	The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “In those days, 10ten men from nations of every language will grab the robe of a Jewish man tightly, urging: Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”
9:1	AnA Oraclepronouncement: The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its resting place — for the eyes of menhumanity and all the tribes of Israel are on the Lord  —
9:7	I will remove the blood from their mouths and the detestableabhorrent things from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah and Ekron like the Jebusites.
9:8	I will setencamp up camp at Mymy house againstas ana armyguard, against those who march back and forth, and no oppressor will march against them again, for now I have seen with Mymy own eyes.
9:9	Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; Hehe is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
9:10	I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem. The bow of war will be removed, and Hehe will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
9:13	For I will bend Judah as Mymy bow; I will fill that bow with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece. I will make you like a warrior’s sword.
9:14	Then the Lord will appear over them, and Hishis arrow will fly like lightning. The Lord God will sound the trumpetram’s horn and advance with the southern storms.
9:15	The Lord of HostsArmies will defend them. They will consume and conquer with slingstones; they will drink and be rowdy as if with wine. They will be as full as the sprinkling basin, like those at the corners of the altar.
9:16	The Lord their God will save them on that day as the flock of Hishis people; for they are like jewels in a crown, sparkling over Hishis land.
9:17	How lovely and beautiful they will be! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine, the young women.
10:1	Ask the Lord for rain in the season of spring rain. The Lord makes the rain clouds, and Hehe will give them showers of rain and crops in the field for everyone.
10:3	My anger burns against the shepherds, so I will punish the leaders. For the Lord of HostsArmies has tended Hishis flock, the house of Judah; Hehe will make them like Hishis majestic steed in battle.
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10:5	theyThey will be like warriors in battle trampling down the mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord is with them, and they will put horsemen to shame.
10:6	I will strengthen the house of Judah and deliver the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had never rejected them. For I am Yahwehthe Lord their God, and I will answer them.
10:7	Ephraim will be like a warrior, and their hearts will be glad as if with wine. Their children will see it and be glad; their hearts will rejoice in Yahwehthe Lord.
10:9	Though I sow them among the nations, they will remember Meme in the distant lands; they and their children will live and return.
10:11	YahwehThe Lord will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will come to an end.
10:12	I will strengthen them in Yahwehthe Lord, and they will march in Hishis name — this is Yahwehthe Lord’s declaration.
11:4	YahwehThe Lord my God says this: “Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter.
11:5	Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say:, Praise‘Blessed be the Lord because I have become rich!!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
11:6	Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—” — this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliverrescue it from themtheir hand.”
11:7	So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the afflictedoppressed of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.
11:9	Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is goingperishing astray go astrayperish; let the rest devour each other’s flesh.”
11:11	It was annulled on that day, and so the afflictedoppressed of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord.
11:12	Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed my wages, 30thirty pieces of silver.
11:13	“Throw it to the potter,” the Lord said to me — this magnificent price I was valued by them. So I took the 30thirty pieces of silver and threw it into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
11:15	The Lord also said to me:, “Take the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
11:16	I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astrayperishing, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.
12:1	AnA Oraclepronouncement: The word of the Lord concerning Israel. A declaration of the Lord, who stretched out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him.
12:4	On that day”—” — this is the Lord’s declaration—“ — “I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. I will keep a watchful eye on the house of Judah but strike all the horses of the nations with blindness.
12:5	Then each of the leaders of Judah will think to himself: The residents of Jerusalem are my strength through the Lord of HostsArmies, their God.
12:8	On that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that on that day the one who is weakest among them will be like David on that day, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angelangel of the Lord, before them.
12:10	“Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at Meme whom they pierced. They will mourn for Himhim as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Himhim as one weeps for a firstborn.
13:2	On that day”—” — this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“Armies — “I will eraseremove the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will removebanish the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
13:3	If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him:, ‘You cannot remain alive because you have spoken falselya lie in the name of Yahweh.the Lord.’ When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.
13:5	He will say:, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for a man purchased me as a servant since my youth..’
13:6	If someone asks him:, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?—?’  — then he will answer:, ‘I received the wounds in the house of my friends..’
13:7	Sword, awake against Mymy shepherd, against the man who is Mymy associate — this is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will also turn Mymy hand against the little ones.
13:8	In the whole land — this is the Lord’s declaration — two-thirds will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it.
13:9	I will put this third through the fire; I will refine them as silver is refined and test them as gold is tested. They will call on Mymy name, and I will answer them. I will say:, ‘They are Mymy people,,’ and they will say:, Yahweh‘The Lord is our God.”.’”
14:1	ALook, a day ofbelonging to the Lord is coming when yourthe plunder taken from you will be divided in your presence.
14:3	Then the Lord will go out to fight against those nations as Hehe fights on a day of battle.
14:4	On that day Hishis feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in half from east to west, forming a huge valley, so that half the mountain will move to the north and half to the south.
14:5	You will flee by Mymy mountain valley, for the valley of the mountains will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with Himhim.
14:7	It will be a unique day known only to Yahwehthe Lord, without day or night, but there will be light at evening.
14:9	On that day Yahwehthe Lord will become King over all the whole earth  —Yahweh the Lord alone, and Hishis name alone.
14:12	This will be the plague with which the Lord strikes all the peoplespeople with, who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
14:16	Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of HostsArmies, and to celebrate the Festival of BoothsShelters.
14:17	Should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of HostsArmies, rain will not fall on them.
14:18	And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the Lord inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of BoothsShelters.
14:19	This will be the punishment of Egypt and all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of BoothsShelters.
14:20	On that day, the words HOLYHoly TOto THEthe LORDLord will be on the bells of the horses. The pots in the house of the Lord will be like the sprinkling basins before the altar.
14:21	Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of HostsArmies. EveryoneAll who sacrificessacrifice will come and takeuse some of the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of HostsArmies.