| 1:8 |
I saw at night, and behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel, and white horses behind him. |
| 1:11 |
So they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is peaceful and quiet. |
| 1:12 |
Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wiltwill ThouYou have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which ThouYou hasthave been indignant these seventy years? |
| 1:13 |
AndThe the Lord answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words. |
| 1:16 |
Therefore, thus says the Lord, I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem. |
| 1:19 |
So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem. |
| 1:21 |
And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it. |
| 2:4 |
and said to him, Run, speak to that young man, saying, Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls, because of the multitude of men and cattle within it. |
| 2:9 |
For behold, I will wave My hand over them, so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me. |
| 2:11 |
AndMany many nations will join themselves to the Lord in that day and will become My people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. |
| 2:12 |
AndThe the Lord will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem. |
| 3:2 |
AndThe the Lord said to Satan, The Lord rebuke you, Satan! Indeed, the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire? |
| 3:4 |
AndHe he spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, Remove the filthy garments from him. Again he said to him, See, I have taken your iniquity away from you and will clothe you with festal robes. |
| 3:6 |
And the angel of the Lord admonished Joshua, saying, |
| 3:7 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts, If you will walk in My ways, and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here. |
| 3:8 |
Now listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you —indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My servant the Branch. |
| 4:1 |
Then the angel who was speaking with me returned, and roused me, as a man who is awakened from his sleep. |
| 4:2 |
AndHe he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it; |
| 4:4 |
Then I answered and said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, What are these, my Lord? |
| 4:6 |
Then he answered and said to me, This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. |
| 4:8 |
Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
| 4:10 |
For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel —these are the eyes of the Lord which range to and fro throughout the earth. |
| 4:11 |
Then I answered and said to him, What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left? |
| 4:13 |
So he answered me, saying, Do you not know what these are? And I said, No, my Lord. |
| 4:14 |
Then he said, These are the two anointed ones, who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth. |
| 5:5 |
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is, going forth. |
| 5:6 |
And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah going forth. Again he said, This is their appearance in all the land |
| 5:10 |
And I said to the angel who was speaking with me, Where are they taking the ephah? |
| 6:5 |
AndThe the angel answeredreplied and said to me, These are the four spirits of heaven, going forth after standing before the Lord of all the earth, |
| 6:9 |
The word of the Lord also came to me, saying, |
| 6:10 |
Take an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah; and you go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have arrived from Babylon. |
| 6:11 |
AndTake take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest. |
| 6:14 |
Now the crown will become a reminder in the temple of the Lord to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah. |
| 6:15 |
AndThose those who are far off will come and build the temple of the Lord. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. And it will take place, if you completely obey the Lord your God. |
| 7:1 |
ThenIn it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. |
| 7:3 |
speaking to the priests who belong to the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years? |
| 7:4 |
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, |
| 7:6 |
AndWhen when you eat and drink, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves? |
| 7:7 |
Are not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills were inhabited? |
| 7:9 |
Thus has the Lord of hosts said, Dispense true justice, and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother; |
| 7:11 |
But they refused to pay attention, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing. |
| 7:12 |
AndThey they made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts. |
| 7:13 |
And it came about that just as He called and they would not listen, so they called and I would not listen, says the Lord of hosts; |
| 7:14 |
but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them, so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate. |
| 8:1 |
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came, saying, |
| 8:8 |
and I will bring them back, and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem,; and they willshall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness. |
| 8:12 |
For there will be peace for the seed: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. |
| 8:13 |
AndIt it will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong. |
| 8:18 |
Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, |
| 8:19 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts, The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace. |
| 8:21 |
AndThe the inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts; I will also go. |
| 8:23 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts, In those days ten men from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you. |
| 9:7 |
And I will remove their blood from their mouth, And their detestable things from between their teeth. Then they also will be a remnant for our God, And be like a clan in Judah, And Ekron like a Jebusite. |
| 9:10 |
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, And the horse from Jerusalem; And the bow of war 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. |
| 9:15 |
The Lord of hosts will defend them. And they will devour, and trample on the sling stones; And they will drink, and be boisterous as with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Drenched like the corners of the altar. |
| 10:1 |
Ask rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain— The Lord who makes the storm clouds; And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man. |
| 10:2 |
For the teraphim speak iniquity, And the diviners see lying visions, And tell false dreams; They comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd. |
| 10:5 |
AndThey they will be as mighty men, Treading down the enemy in the mire of the streets in battle; And they will fight, for the Lord will be with them; And the riders on horses will be put to shame. |
| 10:6 |
And I shallwill strengthen the house of Judah, And I shallwill save the house of Joseph, And I shallwill bring them back, Because I have had compassion on them; And they will be as though I had not rejected them, For I am the Lord their God, and I will answer them. |
| 10:7 |
And Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will be glad as if from wine; Indeed, their children will see it and be glad, Their heart will rejoice in the Lord. |
| 10:10 |
I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, And gather them from Assyria; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, Until no room can be found for them. |
| 10:11 |
And Hethey will pass through the sea of distress, And He will strike the waves in the sea, So that 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 |
And I shallwill strengthen them in the Lord, And in His name they will walk, declares the Lord. |
| 11:6 |
For I shallwill no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land, declares the Lord; but behold, I shallwill cause the men to fall, each into anothers power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I shallwill not deliver them from their power. |
| 11:7 |
So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor, and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock. |
| 11:10 |
And I took my staff, Favor, and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. |
| 11:12 |
And I said to them, If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind! So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages. |
| 11:14 |
Then I cut in pieces my second staff, Union, in pieces, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
| 11:15 |
AndThe the Lord said to me, Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
| 11:17 |
Woe to the worthless shepherd Who leaves the flock! A sword will be on his arm And on his right eye! His arm will be totally withered, And his right eye will be blind. |
| 12:1 |
The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. ThusT hus declares the Lord who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him, |
| 12:3 |
AndIt it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it. |
| 12:4 |
In that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with bewilderment, and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. |
| 12:7 |
The Lord also will save the tents of Judah first, inso order that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem maywill not be magnified above Judah. |
| 12:9 |
And it will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. |
| 12:10 |
And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first bornfirstborn. |
| 12:12 |
AndThe the land will mourn, every family by itself; the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; |
| 12:13 |
the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; |
| 12:14 |
all the families that remain, every family by itself, and their wives by themselves. |
| 13:2 |
AndIt it will come about in that day, declares the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. |
| 13:3 |
And it will come about that if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the Lord; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. |
| 13:8 |
AndIt it will come about in all the land, Declares the Lord, That two parts in it will be cut off and perish; But the third will be left in it. |
| 14:2 |
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city. |
| 14:4 |
AndIn in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley, so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. |
| 14:5 |
AndYou you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; yes, you will flee just as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with Him! |
| 14:6 |
AndIn it will come about in that day that there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle. |
| 14:8 |
And it will come about in that day that living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter. |
| 14:11 |
AndPeople people will live in it, and there will no longer be noa more curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security. |
| 14:13 |
AndIt it will come about in that day that a great panic from the Lord will fall on them; and they will seize one anothers hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another. |
| 14:14 |
And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. |
| 14:15 |
So also like this plague, will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps. |
| 14:18 |
AndIf if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the Lord smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. |
| 14:21 |
AndEvery every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts in that day. |