| 1:1 |
In the eighth month in the second year of Darius the word of the Lord came to Zechari′ahthe prophet Zechariah the son of Berechi′ahBerechiah son of Iddo the prophet saying |
| 1:3 |
Therefore say to them Thus saysdeclares the Lord of hosts: Return to me says the Lord of hosts and I will return to you says the Lord of hosts |
| 1:4 |
BeDo not be like your fathers to whom the former prophets cried out Thus says the Lord of hosts Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds But they did not hear or heedpay attention to me saysdeclares the Lord |
| 1:5 |
Your fathers where are they And the prophets do they live for ever forever |
| 1:7 |
On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month which is the month of Shebat in the second year of Darius the word of the Lord came to Zechari′ahthe prophet Zechariah the son of Berechi′ahBerechiah son of Iddo the prophet; and Zechari′ah said saying |
| 1:8 |
I saw in the night and behold a man riding uponon a red horse He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind him were red sorrel and white horses |
| 1:11 |
And 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 remains at rest |
| 1:12 |
Then the angel of the Lord said O Lord of hosts how long wiltwill thouyou have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah against which thouyou hasthave hadbeen indignationangry these seventy years |
| 1:15 |
And I am veryexceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster |
| 1:16 |
Therefore thus says the Lord I have returned to Jerusalem with compassionmercy; my house shall be built in it saysdeclares the Lord of hosts and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem |
| 1:17 |
Cry out again Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem |
| 1:19 |
And I said to the angel who talked with me What are these And he answeredsaid to me These are the horns whichthat have scattered Judah Israel and Jerusalem |
| 1:20 |
Then the Lord showed me four smiths craftsmen |
| 1:21 |
And I said What are these coming to do He answeredsaid These are the horns whichthat scattered Judah so that no manone raised his head; andAnd these have come to terrify them to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it |
| 2:2 |
Then I said Where are you going And he said to me To measure Jerusalem to see what is its breadthwidth and what is its length |
| 2:4 |
and said to him Run say to that young man Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls because of the multitude of menpeople and cattlelivestock in it |
| 2:5 |
ForAnd I will be to her a wall of fire roundall aboutaround saysdeclares the Lord and I will be the glory withinin her midst |
| 2:6 |
HoUp hoUp Flee from the land of the north saysdeclares the Lord; forFor I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens saysdeclares the Lord |
| 2:7 |
HoUp Escape to Zion you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon |
| 2:10 |
Sing and rejoice O daughter of Zion; for lobehold I come and I will dwell in theyour midst ofdeclares you says the Lord |
| 2:11 |
And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day and shall be my people; andAnd I will dwell in theyour midst of you and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you |
| 2:13 |
Be silent all flesh before the Lord; for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling |
| 3:4 |
And the angel said to those who were standing before him Remove the filthy garments from him And to him he said Behold I have taken your iniquity away from you and I will clothe you with richpure apparel vestments |
| 3:5 |
And I said Let them put a clean turban on his head So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments; andAnd the angel of the Lord was standing by |
| 3:6 |
And the angel of the Lord enjoinedsolemnly assured Joshua |
| 3:8 |
Hear now O Joshua the high priest you and your friends who sit before you for they are men ofwho goodare omena sign: behold I will bring my servant the Branch |
| 3:9 |
For behold uponon the stone whichthat I have set before Joshua uponon a single stone with seven facetseyes I will engrave its inscription saysdeclares the Lord of hosts and I will remove the guiltiniquity of this land in a single day |
| 3:10 |
In that day saysdeclares the Lord of hosts every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree |
| 4:1 |
And the angel who talked with me came again and wakedwoke me like a man thatwho is wakenedawakened out of his sleep |
| 4:2 |
And he said to me What do you see I said I see and behold a lampstand all of gold with a bowl on the top of it and seven lamps on it with seven lips on each of the lamps whichthat are on the top of it |
| 4:5 |
Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me Do you not know what these are I said No my lord |
| 4:6 |
Then he said to me This is the word of the Lord to Zerub′babelZerubbabel: Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit says the Lord of hosts |
| 4:7 |
WhatWho are you O great mountain Before Zerub′babelZerubbabel you shall become a plain; andAnd he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of Grace grace to it |
| 4:8 |
MoreoverThen the word of the Lord came to me saying |
| 4:9 |
The hands of Zerub′babelZerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you |
| 4:10 |
For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice and shall see the plummetplumb line in the hand of Zerub′babelZerubbabel These seven are the eyes of the Lord which range through the whole earth |
| 4:12 |
And a second time I answered and said to him What are these two branches of the olive trees which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out |
| 4:14 |
Then he said These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth |
| 5:2 |
And he said to me What do you see I answered I see a flying scroll; itsIts length is twenty cubits and its breadthwidth ten cubits |
| 5:3 |
Then he said to me This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land; forFor everyeveryone one who steals shall be cutcleaned offout henceforth according to itwhat andis everyon one side and everyone who swears falsely shall be cutcleaned offout henceforth according to itwhat is on the other side |
| 5:4 |
I will send it forthout saysdeclares the Lord of hosts and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by my name; andAnd it shall abideremain in his house and consume it both timber and stones |
| 5:5 |
Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me Lift your eyes and see what this is that goesis forthgoing out |
| 5:6 |
And I said What is it He said This is the ephahbasket that goesis forthgoing out And he said This is their iniquity in all the land |
| 5:7 |
And behold the leaden cover was lifted and there was a woman sitting in the ephah basket |
| 5:8 |
And he said This is Wickedness And he thrust her back into the ephahbasket and thrust down the leaden weight uponon its mouth opening |
| 5:9 |
Then I lifted my eyes and saw and behold two women coming forward The wind was in their wings; theyThey had wings like the wings of a stork and they lifted up the ephahbasket between earth and heaven |
| 5:10 |
Then I said to the angel who talked with me Where are they taking the ephah basket |
| 5:11 |
He said to me To the land of Shinar to build a house for it; andAnd when this is prepared they will set the ephahbasket down there on its base |
| 6:1 |
AndAgain again I lifted my eyes and saw and behold four chariots came out from between two mountains; andAnd the mountains were mountains of bronze |
| 6:3 |
the third white horses and the fourth chariot dappled gray horses—all of them strong |
| 6:4 |
Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me What are these my lord |
| 6:5 |
And the angel answered and said to me These are going forthout to the four winds of heaven after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth |
| 6:6 |
The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country the white ones go towardafter thethem west country and the dappled ones go toward the south country |
| 6:7 |
When the steedsstrong horses came out they were impatient to getgo off and patrol the earth And he said Go patrol the earth So they patrolled the earth |
| 6:10 |
Take from the exiles Heldai Tobi′jahTobijah and Jedai′ahJedaiah who have arrived from Babylon; and go the same day to the house of Josi′ahJosiah the son of Zephani′ah Zephaniah |
| 6:11 |
Take from them silver and gold and make a crown and set it uponon the head of Joshua the son of Jehoz′adakJehozadak the high priest; |
| 6:12 |
andAnd say to him Thus says the Lord of hosts Behold the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall growbranch upout infrom his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord |
| 6:13 |
It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord and shall bear royal honor and shall sit and rule uponon his throne And there shall be a priest byon his throne and peacefulthe understandingcounsel of peace shall be between them both |
| 6:14 |
And the crown shall be in the temple of the Lord as a reminder to HeldaiHelem Tobi′jahTobijah Jedai′ahJedaiah and Josi′ahHen the son of Zephani′ahZephaniah |
| 6:15 |
And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the Lord; andAnd you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you And this shall come to pass if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God |
| 7:1 |
In the fourth year of King Darius the word of the Lord came to Zechari′ahZechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month which is Chislev |
| 7:2 |
Now the people of Bethel had sent Share′zerSharezer and Reg′emRegem mel′echmelech and their men to entreat the favor of the Lord |
| 7:3 |
andsaying to ask the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and the prophets Should I mournweep and fastabstain in the fifth month as I have done for so many years |
| 7:7 |
WhenWere not these the words that the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and inprosperous prosperity with her cities roundaround about her and the South and the lowland were inhabited were not these the words which the Lord proclaimed by the former prophets |
| 7:8 |
And the word of the Lord came to Zechari′ahZechariah saying |
| 7:9 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts Render true judgments show kindness and mercy each to hisone brother another |
| 7:10 |
do not oppress the widow the fatherless the sojourner or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against hisanother brother in your heart |
| 7:11 |
But they refused to hearkenpay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear |
| 7:12 |
They made their hearts likediamond adamanthard lest they should hear the law and the words whichthat the Lord of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets Therefore great wrathanger came from the Lord of hosts |
| 7:14 |
and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whichthat they had not known Thus the land they left was desolate so that no one went to and fro and the pleasant land was made desolate |
| 8:1 |
And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me saying |
| 8:3 |
Thus says the Lord: I willhave returnreturned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain |
| 8:4 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem each with staff in hand forbecause veryof great age |
| 8:6 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in thesethose days should it also be marvelous in my sight saysdeclares the Lord of hosts |
| 8:7 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold I will save my people from the east country and from the west country; |
| 8:8 |
and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; andAnd they shall be my people and I will be their God in faithfulness and in righteousness |
| 8:9 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Let your hands be strong you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets sincewho were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid that the temple might be built |
| 8:10 |
For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in; for I set every man against his fellow neighbor |
| 8:11 |
But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days saysdeclares the Lord of hosts |
| 8:12 |
For there shall be a sowing of peace; theThe vine shall yieldgive its fruit and the ground shall give its increaseproduce and the heavens shall give their dew; andAnd I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things |
| 8:14 |
For thus says the Lord of hosts: As I purposed to dobring evildisaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath and I did not relent says the Lord of hosts |
| 8:15 |
so again have I purposed in these days to dobring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not |
| 8:16 |
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace ; |
| 8:17 |
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another and love no false oath for all these things I hate saysdeclares the Lord |
| 8:19 |
Thus says 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 seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts; thereforeTherefore love truth and peace |
| 8:20 |
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come even the inhabitants of many cities; |
| 8:21 |
theThe inhabitants of one city shall go to another saying Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going |
| 9:1 |
AnThe Oracleoracle Theof the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and willDamascus restis uponits Damascusresting place For to the Lord belonghas thean citieseye ofon Arammankind evenand ason all the tribes of Israel; |
| 9:2 |
and on Hamath also which borders thereonon it Tyre and Sidon though they are very wise |
| 9:3 |
Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust and fine gold like the mud of the streets |
| 9:4 |
But lobehold the Lord will strip her of her possessions and hurlstrike down her wealthpower intoon the sea and she shall be devoured by fire |
| 9:5 |
Ash′kelonAshkelon shall see it and be afraid; Gaza too and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also because its hopes are confounded The king shall perish from Gaza; Ash′kelonAshkelon shall be uninhabited; |
| 9:6 |
a mongrelmixed people shall dwell in Ashdod; and I will makecut anoff end of the pride of Philistia |
| 9:7 |
I will take away its blood from its mouth and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah and Ekron shall be like the Jeb′usitesJebusites |
| 9:8 |
Then I will encamp at my house as a guard so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again overrunmarch over them for now I see with my own eyes |
| 9:9 |
Rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion Shout aloud O daughter of Jerusalem LoBehold your king comesis coming to you; triumphantrighteous and victorioushaving salvation is he humble and ridingmounted on ana assdonkey on a colt the foal of ana assdonkey |
| 9:10 |
I will cut off the chariot from E′phraimEphraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off and he shall commandspeak peace to the nations; his dominionrule shall 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 my covenant with you I will set your captivesprisoners free from the waterless pit |
| 9:13 |
For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made E′phraimEphraim its arrow I will brandishstir up your sons O Zion overagainst your sons O Greece and wield you like a warriors sword |
| 9:14 |
Then the Lord will appear over them and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south |
| 9:15 |
The Lord of hosts will protect them and they shall devour and tread down the slingers;sling stones and they shall drink theirand bloodroar likeas if drunk with wine and be full like a bowl drenched like the corners of the altar |
| 9:16 |
On that day the Lord their God will save them foras they are the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land |
| 9:17 |
YeaFor how goodgreat is his goodness and how fairgreat ithis shallbeauty be Grain shall make the young men flourish and new wine the maidensyoung women |
| 10:1 |
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain from the Lord who makes the storm clouds whoand giveshe menwill give them showers of rain to everyeveryone one the vegetation in the field |
| 10:2 |
For the teraphimhousehold gods utter nonsense and the diviners see lies; thethey dreamers tell false dreams and give empty consolation Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for wantlack of a shepherd |
| 10:3 |
My anger is hot against the shepherds and I will punish the leaders; for the Lord of hosts cares for his flock the house of Judah and will make them like his proudmajestic steed in battle |
| 10:4 |
OutFrom ofhim them shall come the cornerstone outfrom ofhim them the tent peg outfrom ofhim them the battle bow outfrom him every ruler—all of them every rulertogether |
| 10:5 |
TogetherThey they shall be like mighty men in battle trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the Lord is with them and they shall confoundput to shame the riders on horses |
| 10:6 |
I will strengthen the house of Judah and I will save the house of Joseph I will bring them back because I have compassion on them and they shall be as though I had not rejected them; for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them |
| 10:7 |
Then E′phraimEphraim shall become like a mighty warrior and their hearts shall be glad as with wine Their children shall see it and rejoicebe glad; their hearts shall exultrejoice in the Lord |
| 10:8 |
I will signalwhistle for them and gather them in for I have redeemed them and they shall be as many as ofthey oldwere before |
| 10:10 |
I will bring them home from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon till there is no room for them |
| 10:11 |
TheyHe shall pass through the sea of Egypttroubles and strike down the waves of the sea shall be smitten and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up The pride of Assyria shall be laid low and the scepter of Egypt shall depart |
| 10:12 |
I will make them strong in the Lord and they shall glorywalk in his name saysdeclares the Lord |
| 11:3 |
HarkThe sound of the wail of the shepherds for their glory is despoiledruined HarkThe sound of the roar of the lions for the junglethicket of the Jordan is laid wasteruined |
| 11:5 |
Those who buy them slayslaughter them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say Blessed be the Lord I have become rich; and their own shepherds have no pity on them |
| 11:6 |
For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land saysdeclares the Lord LoBehold I will cause meneach of them to fall each into the hand of his shepherdneighbor and each into the hand of his king; and they shall crush the earthland and I will deliver none from their hand |
| 11:7 |
So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slainslaughtered forby those who trafficked in the sheep traders And I took two staffs; one I named GraceFavor the other I named Union And I tended the sheep |
| 11:9 |
So I said I will not be your shepherd What is to die let it die; whatWhat is to be destroyed let it be destroyed; andAnd let those thatwho are left devour the flesh of one another |
| 11:10 |
And I took my staff GraceFavor and I broke it annulling the covenant whichthat I had made with all the peoples |
| 11:11 |
So it was annulled on that day and the traffickerssheep intraders the sheep who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord |
| 11:12 |
Then I said to them If it seems rightgood to you give me my wages; but if not keep them And they weighed out as my wages thirty shekelspieces of silver |
| 11:13 |
Then the Lord said to me CastThrow it intoto the treasurypotter—the lordly price at which I was paidpriced off by them So I took the thirty shekelspieces of silver and castthrew them into the treasuryhouse inof the houseLord ofto the Lord potter |
| 11:15 |
Then the Lord said to me Take once more the implementsequipment of a worthlessfoolish shepherd |
| 11:16 |
For lobehold I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for thethose perishingbeing destroyed or seek the wanderingyoung or heal the maimed or nourish the soundhealthy but devours the flesh of the fat ones tearing off even their hoofs |
| 11:17 |
Woe to my worthless shepherd who deserts the flock May the sword smitestrike his arm and his right eye Let his arm be wholly withered his right eye utterly blinded |
| 12:1 |
AnThe Oracleoracle Theof the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus saysdeclares the Lord who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: |
| 12:2 |
LoBehold I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reelingstaggering to all the surrounding peoples roundThe about;siege itof Jerusalem will also be against Judah also in the siege against Jerusalem |
| 12:3 |
On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; allAll who lift it shallwill grievouslysurely hurt themselves And all the nations of the earth will comegather together against it |
| 12:4 |
On that day saysdeclares the Lord I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness But uponfor the sake of the house of Judah I will openkeep my eyes open when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness |
| 12:6 |
On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood like a flaming torch among sheaves; andAnd they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples round about while Jerusalem shall stillagain be inhabited in its place in Jerusalem |
| 12:7 |
And the Lord will give victorysalvation to the tents of Judah first that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not besurpass exalted over that of Judah |
| 12:8 |
On that day the Lord will putprotect a shield about the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David and the house of David shall be like God like the angel of the Lord atgoing theirbefore head them |
| 12:10 |
And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassiongrace and supplicationpleas for mercy so that when they look on me on him whom they have pierced they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a first born firstborn |
| 12:11 |
On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad rim′monrimmon in the plain of Megid′do Megiddo |
| 12:12 |
The land shall mourn each 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 Shim′eShimeites ites by itself and their wives by themselves; |
| 13:2 |
And on that day saysdeclares the Lord of hosts I will cut off the names of the idols from the land so that they shall be remembered no more; andAnd also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit of uncleanness |
| 13:3 |
And if anyanyone one again appearsprophesies as a prophet his father and mother who bore him will say to him You shall not live for you speak lies in the name of the Lord; andAnd his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies |
| 13:4 |
On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; heHe will not put on a hairy mantlecloak in order to deceive |
| 13:5 |
but he will say I am no prophet I am a tillerworker of the soil; for thea landman hassold beenme myin possession since my youth |
| 13:7 |
Awake O sword against my shepherd against the man who stands next to me saysdeclares the Lord of hosts Strike the shepherd thatand the sheep maywill be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones |
| 13:8 |
In the whole land saysdeclares the Lord two thirds shall be cut off and perish and one third shall be left alive |
| 13:9 |
And I will put this third into the fire and refine them as one refines silver and test them as gold is tested They will call onupon my name and I will answer them I will say They are my people; and they will say The Lord is my God |
| 14:1 |
Behold a day ofis coming for the Lord is coming when the spoil taken from you will be divided in theyour midst of you |
| 14:2 |
For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women ravished;raped halfHalf of the city shall go out into exile but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city |
| 14:3 |
Then the Lord will go forthout and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle |
| 14:4 |
On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives whichthat lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley; so that one half of the Mount shall withdrawmove northward and the other half southward |
| 14:5 |
And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains shall be stopped up for the valley of the mountains shall touchreach theto sideAzal ofAnd it; and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzzi′ahUzziah king of Judah Then the Lord yourmy God will come and all the holy ones with him |
| 14:6 |
On that day there shall be neitherno light cold noror frost |
| 14:7 |
And there shall be continuousa unique day itwhich is known to the Lord notneither day andnor not night forbut at evening time there shall be light |
| 14:8 |
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; itIt shall continue in summer as in winter |
| 14:9 |
And the Lord will becomebe king over all the earth; onOn that day the Lord will be one and his name one |
| 14:10 |
The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem But Jerusalem shall remain aloft uponon its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate to the Corner Gate and from the Tower of Han′anelHananel to the kings wine presses winepresses |
| 14:11 |
And it shall be inhabited for there shall never again be noa moredecree curse;of utter destruction Jerusalem shall dwell in security |
| 14:12 |
And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will smitestrike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shallwill rot while they are still standing on their feet their eyes shallwill rot in their sockets and their tongues shallwill rot in their mouths |
| 14:13 |
And on that day a great panic from the Lord shall fall on them so that each will layseize hold on the hand of hisanother fellow and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other; |
| 14:14 |
evenEven Judah will fight againstat Jerusalem And the wealth of all the surrounding nations round about shall be collected gold silver and garments in great abundance |
| 14:15 |
And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses the mules the camels the assesdonkeys and whatever beasts may be in those camps |
| 14:16 |
Then everyeveryone onewho that survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King the Lord of hosts and to keep the feastFeast of booths Booths |
| 14:17 |
And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King the Lord of hosts there will be no rain uponon them |
| 14:18 |
And if the family of Egypt dodoes not go up and present themselves then uponon them there shall comebe no rain; there shall be the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the feastFeast of booths Booths |
| 14:19 |
This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the feastFeast of boothsBooths |
| 14:20 |
And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses Holy to the Lord And the pots in the house of the Lord shall be as the bowls before the altar; |
| 14:21 |
andAnd every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacredholy to the Lord of hosts so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the fleshmeat of the sacrifice in them And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day |