God's promises of ZECHARIAHL victory and defence. hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, [declare that I will render double unte saying, We will go with you; for we thee. have heard that God is with you. 13 When I have bent Judah for me, CHAP. IX. filled the bow with Ephraim, and rais ed up thy sons, O Zion. against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. THE burden of the word of the THE LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascusshall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD. 2 And Hamath also shall border thereby Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. 14 And the LORD shall be seen ever them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. 15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling-stones: and they shall 3 AndTyrus did build herself a strong bold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the street. drink, and make a noise as through 4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will sinite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. 16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an en 5 Askelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sor rowful, and Ekron; for her expecta-sign upon his land. tion shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Askelon shall not be inhabited. 6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ash dod, and I will cut off the pride of the 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids. CHAP. X. And I will take away his blood out A of the latter and rain in the time of his mouth, and his abominations shall make bright clouds, and give from between his teeth: but he that them showers of rain, to every one remaineth, even he, shall be for our grass in the field. God, and he shall be as a governor in 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. and the diviners have seen a lie, and 8 And I will encamp about my house have told false dreams; they comfort because of the army, because of him in vain: therefore they went their that passeth by, and because of him way as a flock, they were troubled,be that returneth and no oppressor shall cause there was no shepherd. pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes. 3 T Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle. 9 Rejoice greatly,O daughter of Zion: shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: be hold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a 4 Out of him came forth the corner, colt the foal of an ass. out of him the nail, out of him the 10 And I will cut off the chariot from battle-bow, out of him every oppres Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusa-sor together. lem, and the battle-bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. 11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. 5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shail fight, because the LORD i with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded. 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to 12T Turn you to the strong hold,ye place them: for I have mercy upon ers of hope: even to-day do them; and they shall be as though I XI, XII of Jerusalem. one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. The destruction CHAP had not cast them off for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them. 7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD. 8 I will hiss for them, and gather 10And I took my staff, even Beauty, them; for I have redeemed thein: and and cut it asunder, that I might break they shall increase as they have in-my covenant which I had made with creased. all the people. 11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD. 9 And I will sow them among the people and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 101 will bring them again also out of 12 And I said unto them, If ye think the land of Egypt, and gather them good, give me my price; and if not, out of Assyria; and will bring them! forbear. So they. weighed for my into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; price thirty pieces of silver. and place shall not be found for them. 13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast 11 And he shall pass through the sea it unto the potter: a goodly price that with affliction, and shall smite the I was prized at of them. And I took waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD. CHAP. XI. PEN thy doors, O Lebanon, that the thirty pieces of silver, and castthem to the potter in the house of the LORD. 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff,even Bands,that I might break the brotherhood betweenJudah and Israel. 15 T Aud the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd: 16 For, lo, i will raise up a shepherd 2 Howl, fir-tree, for the cedar is that be cut off, neither shall seek the fallen; because the mighty are spoil-young one, nor heal that that is broken, ed: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, for nor feed that that standeth still; but the forest of the vintage is come down. he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and 3 There is a voice of the howling of tear their claws in pieces. the shepherds; for their glory is spoil 17 Wo to the idol shepherd that leav ed: a voice of the roaring of young lieth the flock! the sword shall be upon ons; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. 4 T Thus saith the LORD my God, Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not. his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. CHAP. XII. HE burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the laud, saith the LORD: but, him. lo, I will deliver the men every one 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a into his neighbour's hand, and into the cup of trembling unto all the people. hand of his king; and they shall smite round about, when they shall be in the the land, and out of their hand I will siege both against Judah and against not deliver them. 7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other 1 called Bands; and, I fed the flock. Three shepherde also 1 cut off in Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. The repentance ZECHARIAH. of Jerusalem. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin smite every horse with astonishment, and for uncleanness and his rider with madness: and 2 T And it shall come to pass in that will open mine eyes upon the house of day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I Judah, and will smite every horse of will cut off the name of the idols out the people with bludness. of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the uncleanspir.ts to pass out of the land. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God. 3 And it shall come to pass, that 6 In that day will I make the gov- when any shall yet prophesy, then his ernors of Judah like a hearth of fire father and his mother that begat him among the wood, and like a torch of shall say unto him, Thou shalt not fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour live; for thou speakest lies in the all the people round about, on the right name of the LORD: and his father hand and on the left: and Jerusalem and his mother that begat him shall shall be inhabited again in her own thrust him through when he prophe place, even in Jerusalem. sieth. 7 The LORD also shall save the tents And it shall come to pass in that of Judah first, that the glory of the day,that the prophets shall be ashamed house of David and the glory of the every one of his vision, when he hath inhabitants of Jerusalem do not mag-prophesied; neither shall they wear a nify themselves against Judah. 8 In that day shall the Lono defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. rough garment to deceive; 5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. 6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thy hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I 9 And it shall come to pass in that was wounded in the house of my day, that I will seek to destroy all the friends. nations that come against Jerusalem. 7 Awake, O sword, against my 10 And I will pour upon the house of Shepherd, and against the man that is David, and upon the inhabitants of Je- my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: rusalem, the spirit of grace and of sup- sanite the Shepherd, and the sheep plications: and they shall look upon shall be scattered: and I will turn my me whom they have pierced, and they hand upon the little ones. shall mourn for him, as one mourneth 8 And it shall come to pass, that in for his only son, and shall be in bitter all the land, saith the LORD, two parts ness for him, as one that is in bitter-therein shall be cut off and die; but ness for his first born. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourn ing of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them. as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my 12 And the land shall mourn, every name, and I will hear them: I will family apart; the family of the house say, It is my people; and they shall of David apart, and their wives apart; say, The LORD is my God. the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; CHAP. XIV. aps the family of the house of Levi Boot, the day spoil shall be apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. CHAP. XIII. IN that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. Jerusalem's enemies. and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighhour. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and balf of it toward the south. 14 And Judah also shall fight at Je5 And ye shall flee to the valley of rusalem; and the wealth of all the the mountains; for the valley of the heathen round about shall be gathered mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, together, gold, and sl ver, and apparel, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from ben great abundance. fore the earthquake in the days of 15 And so shall be the plague of the Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD horse, of the mule, of the camel, and my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. 8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jeru salem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the binder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9 And the LORD shall be King over all the earth; in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. 10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from thetower of Hannaneel untothe king's wine-presses. Il And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely in habited. of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. 16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 16 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishinent of all na tions that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 20 T In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the 12 T And this shall be the plague LORD of hosts: and all they that sawherewith the LORD will smite all crifice shall come and take of them, the people that have fought against and seethe therein: and in that day Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume there shall be no more the Canaanite away while they stand upon their feet, in the house of the LORD of hosts. T MALACHI CHAP. 1. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved The priests MALACHI. sharply reproved. mountains and his heritage waste for 14 But cursed be the deceiver, which the dragons of the wilderness. bath in his flock a male, and voweth, 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are im-and sacrificeth unto the LORD a cor poverished, but we will return and rupt thing: for I am a great King, build the desolate places; thus saith saith the LORD of hosts, and my name the LORD of hosts, They shall build, is dreadful among the heathen. but I will throw down; and they shall CHAP. II. mandment is for you. call them, The border of wickedness, Anwenye priests, this com and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. 5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and 6 TA son honoureth his father, and will curse your blessings: yea, 1 a servant his master: if then I be a fa-have cursed them already, because ye ther, where is mine honour? and if I do not lay it to heart. be a master, where is my fear? saith 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces, 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his 9 And now, I pray you, beseech God lips: he walked with me in peace and that he will be gracious unto us; this equity, and did turn many away from hath been by your means: will lie re-iniquity. gard your persons? saith the LORD of 7 For the priest's lips should keep Losts. knowledge, and they should seek the 10 Who is there even among you that law at his mouth; for he is the meswould shut the doors for nought? nei-senger of the LORD of hosts. ther do ye kindle fire on mine altar for 8 But ye are departed out of the way; nought. I have no pleasure in you, ye have caused many to stumble at saith the LORD of hosts, neither will the law; ye have corrupted the cove 1 accept an offering at your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun, even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. 12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polInted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. 13 Ye said also, Behold, what a wea rmness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which rous toru, and the Jame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. nant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. 10 Have we not all one father? hata not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? 11 T Judah hath dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god. 12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Je |