The restoration W CHAP. III. CHAP. 1. of Irack ashamed for all thy doings, where O to her that is filthy and pol- thou hast transgressed against me; luted, to the oppressing city! for then I will take away out of the 2 She obeyed not the voice; she re-midst of thee them that rejoice in thy ceived not correction; she trusted not pride; and thou shalt no more be in the LORD; she drew not near to her haughty because of my holy mountain. 12 I will also leave in the midst of 3 Her princes within her are roaring thee an afflicted and poor people, and lions; her judges are evening wolves; they shall trust in the name of the they gnaw not the bones till the mor- LORD. God. row. 13 The remnant of Israel shall not 4 Her prophets are light and treach do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither erous persons: her priests have pol-shall a deceitful tongue be found in luted the sanctuary, they have done their mouth: for they shall feed and violence to the law. lie down, and none shall make them 5 The just LORD is in the midst there- afraid. of; he will not do iniquity: every 14 T Sing, O daughter of Zion; morning doth he bring his judgment shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust with all the heart, O'daughter of Je knoweth no shame. rusalem. 6 I have cut off the nations: their 15 The LORD hath taken away thy towers are desolate; I made their judgments, he hath cast out thine streets waste, that none passeth by enemy: the King of Israel, even the their cities are destroyed, so that there LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou is no man, that there is none inhabit-shalt not see evil any more. ant. 16 In that day it shall be said to Je rusalem, Fear thou not; and to Zion, Let not thy hands be slack. 17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; be will joy over thee with singing. 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howso ever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings, 8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that rise up to the prey; for my determi- 18 I will gather them that are sornation is to gather the nations, that rowful for the solemn assembly, who may assemble the kingdoms, to pour are of thee, to whom the reproach of upon them mine indignation, even it was a burden. all my fierce anger: for all the earth 19 Behold, at that time I will undo shall be devoured with the fire of my all that aflict thee: and I will save jealousy. 9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent. 10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine of fering. 11 In that day shalt thou not be CHAP. I. her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. 20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity be fore your eyes, saith the LORD. THAGGAI [son of Josedech,the high priest,saying, N the second year of Darius the 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, king, in the sixth mouth, in the saying, This people say, The time is first day of the mouth, came the word not come, the time that the Loan's of the LORD by Haggai the prophet house should be built. unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, 3 Then came the word of the LORD governor of Judah, and to Joshua thelby Haggai the prophet, saying, Haggai inciteth HAGGAL. the people to teork 4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell came the word of the LORD by the in your ceiled houses, and this house prophet Haggai, saying, lie waste? 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son 6 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and of hosts; Consider your ways. to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in Jittle; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with 3 Who is left among you that saw drink; ye clothe you, but there is this house in her first glory? and how none warm; and be that earneth wa-do ye see it now? is it not in your ges, earneth wages to put it into a bag eyes in comparison of it as nothing? with holes. 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabe, 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; saith the LORD; and be strong, 0 Consider your ways. Joshua, son of Josedech, the high 8 Go up to the mountain, and bring priest; and be strong, all ye people of wood, and build the house; and I will the land, saith the LORD, and work: take pleasure in it, and I will be glo- for I am with you, saith the LORD of rified, saith the LORD. 9 Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11 And I called for a draught upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. hosts. 5 According to the word that I corenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaine among you; fear ye not. 6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; 7 And I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations shall cone; and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. 8 The silver is mine, and the goki is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. 9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith 12 T Then Zerubbabel the son of the LORD of hosts: and in this place Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jose- will I give peace, saith the LORD of dech, the high priest, with all the rem-bosts. nant of the people, obeyed the voice 10 T In the four and twentieth day of the LORD their God, and the words of the ninth month, in the second of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD year of Darius, came the word of the their God had sent him, and the peo- LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, ple did fear before the LORD. 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rem nant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, 15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year o! Darius the king. 11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. 14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; aud so is the one every work of their hands; and that mouth, unclean CHAP. II. CHAP. 1. The vision of the horses. 15 And now, I pray you, consider, hath not brought forth: from this day from this day and upward, from be-will I bless you. fore a stone was laid upon a stone in 20 T And again the word of the LORD the temple of the LORD: 16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press,there were but twenty. 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. came unto Haggai in the four and 22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the hea then; and I will overthrow the char iots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. 18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the 23 In that day, saith the LORD of day that the foundation of the LORD's hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, temple was laid, consider it. my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the LORD, and will make thee as a as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the pomegranate, and the olive tree, the LORD of hosts. IN CHAP. I. ZECHARIAH. IN the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, Baying, 2 The Load hath been sore displeased with your fathers. 3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turu ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, Baith the LORD. Zechariah, the son of Berechial, the 10 And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said,These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. 11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtletrees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and,behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. 12 T Then the angel of the LORD an swered and said, O LORD of hosts,how 6 But my words and my statutes, long wilt thou not have mercy on Je which I commanded my servants the rusalem and on the cities of Judah, prophets, did they not take hold of Jagainst which thon hast had indignayour fathers? and they returned and tion these threescore and ten years? Baid, Like as the LORD of hosts thought 13 And the LORD answered the angel to do unto us, according to our ways, that talked with me with good words and according to our doings, so hath and comfortable words. he dealt with us. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? 14 So the angel that communed with 7 ¶ Upon the four and twentieth day me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, of the eleventh month, which is the Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am month Sebat, in the second yearof Da- jealous for Jerusalem and for Ziou rius, came the word of the LORD unto with a great jealousy. ZECHARIAH. Christ the Branch is promised. 15 And I am very sore displeased, the nations which spoiled you; for he with the heathen that are at ease; for that toucheth you toucheth the apple I was but a little displeased, and they of his eye. helped forward the affliction. 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; am returned to Jerusalem with mer cies my house shall be built in it, Baith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon JerusaZion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell 17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, My cities through pros perity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LonD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem. 18 Then lifted 1 up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. 19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judab, Israel, and Jerusalem. 20 And the LORD showed me four carpenters. 21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scatteredJudah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to tray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it. CHAP. II. 9 For, behold, I will shake my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts bath sent me. 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. 11 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee. 12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. 13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation. CHAP. III. AND he showed me Joshus the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Salan standing at his right hand to resist him. 2 And the LORD said unto Satan,The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy LIFTED up mine eyes again, and garments, and stood before the angel looked, and behold a man with a4 And he answered and spake unto measuring-line in his hand. those that stood before him, saying, 2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? Take away the filthy garments from And he said unto me, To measure him. And unto him he said, Behold, Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth I have caused thine iniquity to pass thereof, and what is the length thereof. from thee, and I will clothe thee with 3 And, behold, the angel that talked change of raiment. with me went forth, and another angel 5 And I said, Let them set a fair went out to meet him, mitre upon his head. So they set a 4 And said unto him, Run, speak to fair mitre upon his head, and clothed this young man, saying, Jerusalem him with garments. And the angel of shall be inhabited as towns without the LORD stood by. walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: 5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. 6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. 7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwell est with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts: Ser the glory bath he sent me unto 6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying, 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. 8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that t before thee; for they are men wonder ed at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. The vision of the CHAP IV, V. golden candlestick, &c. 9 For behold the stone that I have golden pipes, empty the golden oil out laid before Joshua; upon one stone of themselves? shall be seven eyes: behold, I willen grave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. 13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 14 Then said be, These are the two 10 In that day, saith the LORD of anointed ones, that stand by the LonD hosts, shall ye call every man his of the whole earth. neighbour under the vine and under! the fig tree. CHAP. IV. THE CHAP. V. HEN I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a AND the angel that talked with me flying rolle came again and waked me, as a 2 And he said unto me, What seest man that is wakened out of his sleep, thou? And Iauswered, Isee aflying roll, 2 And said unto me, What seest thou? the length thereof is twenty cubits, And I said, I have looked, and behold and the breadth thereof ten cubits. a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl 3 Then said he unto me, This is the upon the top of it, and his seven lamps curse that goeth forth over the face of thereon, and seven pipes to the seven the whole earth: for every one that lamps, which are upon the top thereof: stealeth shall be cut off as on this side, 3 And two olive trees by it, one upon according to it; and every one that the right side of the bowl, and the sweareth shall be cut off as on that other upon the left side thereof. side according to it. 4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? 5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. 4 I will bring it forth,saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof. 6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the 5 T Then the angel that talked with LORD unto Zerubbabel,saying, Not by me went forth, and said unto me, Lift might, nor by power, but by my Spir-up now thine eyes, and see what is it, saith the LORD of hosts. this that goeth forth. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? 6 And I said, What is it? And he before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the head stone thereof with shoutings,crying, Grace, grace, unto it. 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 9 The hands of Zerrubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it: and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts bath sent me unto you. 10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerrubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth. said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. 9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. 11 Then auswered I, and said unto 10 Then said I to the angel that talkhim, What are these two olive-trees ed with me, Whither do these bear upon the sight side of the candlestick, the ephah? and upon the left side thereof? 11 And he said unto me, To build it 12 And I answered again, and said a house in the land of Shinar. and it unto him, What be these two olive-shall be established, and set there upbranches which, through the two on her own base. |