ZEC 1:1 In the
eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word
of the Lord came to Zechariah the prophet, the son
of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying,
ZEC 1:2 "The Lord was very angry with your
fathers.
ZEC 1:3 "Therefore say to them, 'Thus says
the Lord of hosts," Return to Me, "declares the Lord
of hosts," that I may return to you, "says the Lord
of hosts.
ZEC 1:4 "Do not be like your fathers, to whom
the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus says
the Lord of hosts," Return now from your evil ways
and from your evil deeds."'But they did not listen
or give heed to Me," declares the Lord.
ZEC 1:5 "Your fathers, where are they? And
the prophets, do they live forever?
ZEC 1:6 "But did not My words and My
statutes, which I commanded My servants the
prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented
and said, 'As the Lord of hosts purposed to do to us
in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has
dealt with us.'"' "
ZEC 1:7 On the twenty-fourth day of the
eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the
second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to
Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son
of Iddo, as follows:
ZEC 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 #663300 horses behind him.
ZEC 1:9 Then I said, "My lord, what are
these?" And the angel who was speaking with me said
to me, "I will show you what these are."
ZEC 1:10 And the man who was standing among
the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those
whom the Lord has sent to patrol the earth."
ZEC 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."
ZEC 1:12 Then the angel of the Lord answered
and said, "O Lord of hosts, how long wilt Thou have
no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah,
with which Thou hast been indignant these seventy
years?"
ZEC 1:13 And the Lord answered the angel who
was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting
words.
ZEC 1:14 So the angel who was speaking with
me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says the
Lord of hosts," I am exceedingly jealous for
Jerusalem and Zion.
ZEC 1:15 "But I am very angry with the
nations who are at ease; for while I was only a
little angry, they furthered the disaster."
ZEC 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."'
ZEC 1:17 "Again, proclaim, saying, 'Thus says
the Lord of hosts," My cities will again overflow
with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort
Zion and again choose Jerusalem."'"
ZEC 1:18 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked,
and behold, there were four horns.
ZEC 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."
ZEC 1:20 Then the Lord showed me four
craftsmen.
ZEC 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."
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ZEC 2:1 Then I
lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was
a man with a measuring line in his hand.
ZEC 2:2 So I said, "Where are you going?" And
he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see how
wide it is and how long it is."
ZEC 2:3 And behold, the angel who was
speaking with me was going out, and another angel
was coming out to meet him,
ZEC 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.
ZEC 2:5 'For I,' declares the Lord,' will be
a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory
in her midst.' "
ZEC 2:6 "Ho there! Flee from the land of the
north," declares the Lord, "for I have dispersed you
as the four winds of the heavens," declares the
Lord.
ZEC 2:7 "Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living
with the daughter of Babylon."
ZEC 2:8 For thus says the Lord of hosts,
"After glory He has sent me against the nations
which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches
the apple of His eye.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 2:10 "Sing for joy and be glad, O
daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will
dwell in your midst," declares the Lord.
ZEC 2:11 "And 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.
ZEC 2:12 "And the Lord will possess Judah as
His portion in the holy land, and will again choose
Jerusalem.
ZEC 2:13 "Be silent, all flesh, before the
Lord; for He is aroused from His holy habitation."
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ZEC 3:1 Then he
showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the
angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right
hand to accuse him.
ZEC 3:2 And 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?"
ZEC 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy
garments and standing before the angel.
ZEC 3:4 And 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."
ZEC 3:5 Then 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, while the
angel of the Lord was standing by.
ZEC 3:6 And the angel of the Lord admonished
Joshua saying,
ZEC 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.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 3:9 'For behold, the stone that I have
set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes.
Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,'
declares the Lord of hosts,' and I will remove the
iniquity of that land in one day.
ZEC 3:10 'In that day,' declares the Lord of
hosts,' every one of you will invite his neighbor to
sit under his vine and under his fig tree.'"
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ZEC 4:1 Then the
angel who was speaking with me returned, and roused
me as a man who is awakened from his sleep.
ZEC 4:2 And 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;
ZEC 4:3 also two olive trees by it, one on
the right side of the bowl and the other on its left
side."
ZEC 4:4 Then I answered and said to the angel
who was speaking with me saying, "What are these, my
lord?"
ZEC 4:5 So the angel who was speaking with me
answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these
are?" And I said, "No, my lord."
ZEC 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.
ZEC 4:7 'What are you, O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he
will bring forth the top stone with shouts of
"Grace, grace to it!"' "
ZEC 4:8 Also the word of the Lord came to me
saying,
ZEC 4:9 "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid
the foundation of this house, and his hands will
finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts
has sent me to you.
ZEC 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."
ZEC 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?"
ZEC 4:12 And I answered the second time and
said to him, "What are the two olive branches which
are beside the two golden pipes, which empty the
golden oil from themselves?"
ZEC 4:13 So he answered me saying, "Do you
not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."
ZEC 4:14 Then he said, "These are the two
anointed ones, who are standing by the Lord of the
whole earth."
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ZEC 5:1 Then I
lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold,
there was a flying scroll.
ZEC 5:2 And he said to me, "What do you see?"
And I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length
is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits."
ZEC 5:3 Then he said to me, "This is the
curse that is going forth over the face of the whole
land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away
according to the writing on one side, and everyone
who swears will be purged away according to the
writing on the other side.
ZEC 5:4 "I will make it go forth," declares
the Lord of hosts, "and it will enter the house of
the thief and the house of the one who swears
falsely by My name; and it will spend the night
within that house and consume it with its timber and
stones."
ZEC 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."
ZEC 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
ZEC 5:7 (and behold, a lead cover was lifted
up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah."
ZEC 5:8 Then he said, "This is Wickedness!"
And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah
and cast the lead weight on its opening.
ZEC 5:9 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked,
and there two women were coming out with the wind in
their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a
stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the
earth and the heavens.
ZEC 5:10 And I said to the angel who was
speaking with me, "Where are they taking the ephah?"
ZEC 5:11 Then he said to me, "To build a
temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is
prepared, she will be set there on her own
pedestal."
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ZEC 6:1 Now I
lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, four
chariots were coming forth from between the two
mountains; and the mountains were bronze mountains.
ZEC 6:2 With the first chariot were red
horses, with the second chariot black horses,
ZEC 6:3 with the third chariot #663300
horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled
horses.
ZEC 6:4 Then I spoke and said to the angel
who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
ZEC 6:5 And the angel answered and said to
me, "These are the four spirits of heaven, going
forth after standing before the Lord of all the
earth,
ZEC 6:6 with one of which the black horses
are going forth to the north country; and the
#663300 ones go forth after them, while the dappled
ones go forth to the south country.
ZEC 6:7 "When the strong ones went out, they
were eager to go to patrol the earth." And He said,
"Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the earth.
ZEC 6:8 Then He cried out to me and spoke to
me saying, "See, those who are going to the land of
the north have appeased My wrath in the land of the
north."
ZEC 6:9 The word of the Lord also came to me
saying,
ZEC 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.
ZEC 6:11 "And take silver and gold, make an
ornate crown, and set it on the head of Joshua the
son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
ZEC 6:12 "Then say to him, 'Thus says the
Lord of hosts," Behold, a man whose name is Branch,
for He will branch out from where He is; and He will
build the temple of the Lord.
ZEC 6:13 "Yes, it is He who will build the
temple of the Lord, and He who will bear the honor
and sit and rule on His throne. Thus, He will be a
priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace will
be between the two offices."'
ZEC 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.
ZEC 6:15 "And 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.
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ZEC 7:1 Then 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.
ZEC 7:2 Now the town of Bethel had sent
Sharezer and Regemmelech and their men to seek the
favor of the Lord,
ZEC 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?"
ZEC 7:4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts
came to me saying,
ZEC 7:5 "Say to all the people of the land
and to the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in
the fifth and seventh months these seventy years,
was it actually for Me that you fasted?
ZEC 7:6 'And when you eat and drink, do you
not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for
yourselves?
ZEC 7:7 'Are not these the words which the
Lord proclaimed by the former prophets, when
Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous with its
cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills
were inhabited?' "
ZEC 7:8 Then the word of the Lord came to
Zechariah saying,
ZEC 7:9 "Thus has the Lord of hosts said,
'Dispense true justice, and practice kindness and
compassion each to his brother;
ZEC 7:10 and do not oppress the widow or the
orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise
evil in your hearts against one another.'
ZEC 7:11 "But they refused to pay attention,
and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their
ears from hearing.
ZEC 7:12 "And 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.
ZEC 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;
ZEC 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."
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ZEC 8:1 Then the
word of the Lord of hosts came saying,
ZEC 8:2 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'I am
exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath
I am jealous for her.'
ZEC 8:3 "Thus says the Lord, 'I will return
to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.
Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and
the mountain of the Lord of hosts will be called the
Holy Mountain.'
ZEC 8:4 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Old
men and old women will again sit in the streets of
Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand
because of age.
ZEC 8:5 'And the streets of the city will be
filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.'
ZEC 8:6 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'If it
is too difficult in the sight of the remnant of this
people in those days, will it also be too difficult
in My sight?' declares the Lord of hosts.
ZEC 8:7 "Thus says the Lord of hosts,
'Behold, I am going to save My people from the land
of the east and from the land of the west;
ZEC 8:8 and I will bring them back, and they
will live in the midst of Jerusalem, and they will
be My people and I will be their God in truth and
righteousness.'
ZEC 8:9 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Let
your hands be strong, you who are listening in these
days to these words from the mouth of the prophets,
those who spoke in the day that the foundation of
the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, to the end
that the temple might be built.
ZEC 8:10 'For before those days there was no
wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who
went out or came in there was no peace because of
his enemies, and I set all men one against another.
ZEC 8:11 'But now I will not treat the
remnant of this people as in the former days,'
declares the Lord of hosts.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 8:13 'And 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.'
ZEC 8:14 "For thus says the Lord of hosts,
'Just as I purposed to do harm to you when your
fathers provoked Me to wrath,' says the Lord of
hosts, 'and I have not relented,
ZEC 8:15 so I have again purposed in these
days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of
Judah. Do not fear!
ZEC 8:16 'These are the things which you
should do: speak the truth to one another; judge
with truth and judgment for peace in your gates.
ZEC 8:17 'Also let none of you devise evil in
your heart against another, and do not love perjury;
for all these are what I hate,' declares the Lord."
ZEC 8:18 Then the word of the Lord of hosts
came to me saying,
ZEC 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.'
ZEC 8:20 "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'It
will yet be that peoples will come, even the
inhabitants of many cities.
ZEC 8:21 'And 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."
ZEC 8:22 'So many peoples and mighty nations
will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and
to entreat the favor of the Lord.'
ZEC 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."'"
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ZEC 9:1 The
burden of the word of the Lord is against the land
of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for
the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of
Israel, are toward the Lord),
ZEC 9:2 And Hamath also, which borders on it;
Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
ZEC 9:3 For Tyre built herself a fortress And
piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mire of
the streets.
ZEC 9:4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her
And cast her wealth into the sea; And she will be
consumed with fire.
ZEC 9:5 Ashkelon will see it and be afraid.
Gaza too will writhe in great pain; Also Ekron, for
her expectation has been confounded. Moreover, the
king will perish from Gaza, And Ashkelon will not be
inhabited.
ZEC 9:6 And a mongrel race will dwell in
Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the
Philistines.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 9:8 But I will camp around My house
because of an army, Because of him who passes by and
returns; And no oppressor will pass over them
anymore, For now I have seen with My eyes.
ZEC 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold,
your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed
with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey,
Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 9:11 As for you also, because of the
blood of My covenant with you, I have set your
prisoners free from the waterless pit.
ZEC 9:12 Return to the stronghold, O
prisoners who have the hope; This very day I am
declaring that I will restore double to you.
ZEC 9:13 For I will bend Judah as My bow, I
will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up
your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece; And
I will make you like a warrior's sword.
ZEC 9:14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the
Lord God will blow the trumpet, And will march in
the storm winds of the south.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 9:16 And the Lord their God will save
them in that day As the flock of His people; For
they are as the stones of a crown, Sparkling in His
land.
ZEC 9:17 For what comeliness and beauty will
be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish,
and new wine the virgins.
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ZEC 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.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 10:3 "My anger is kindled against the
shepherds, And I will punish the male goats; For the
Lord of hosts has visited His flock, the house of
Judah, And will make them like His majestic horse in
battle.
ZEC 10:4 "From them will come the
cornerstone, From them the tent peg, From them the
bow of battle, From them every ruler, all of them
together.
ZEC 10:5 "And 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.
ZEC 10:6 "And I shall strengthen the house of
Judah, And I shall save the house of Joseph, And I
shall 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.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 10:8 "I will whistle for them to gather
them together, For I have redeemed them; And they
will be as numerous as they were before.
ZEC 10:9 "When I scatter them among the
peoples, They will remember Me in far countries, And
they with their children will live and come back.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 10:11 "And He will pass through the sea
of distress, And 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.
ZEC 10:12 "And I shall strengthen them in the
Lord, And in His name they will walk," declares the
Lord.
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ZEC 11:1 Open
your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your
cedars.
ZEC 11:2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has
fallen, Because the glorious trees have been
destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the
impenetrable forest has come down.
ZEC 11:3 There is a sound of the shepherds'
wail, For their glory is ruined; There is a sound of
the young lions' roar, For the pride of the Jordan
is ruined.
ZEC 11:4 Thus says the Lord my God, "Pasture
the flock doomed to slaughter.
ZEC 11:5 "Those who buy them slay them and go
unpunished, and each of those who sell them says,
'Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich!' And
their own shepherds have no pity on them.
ZEC 11:6 "For I shall no longer have pity on
the inhabitants of the land," declares the Lord;
"but behold, I shall cause the men to fall, each
into another's power and into the power of his king;
and they will strike the land, and I shall not
deliver them from their power."
ZEC 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.
ZEC 11:8 Then I annihilated the three
shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient
with them, and their soul also was weary of me.
ZEC 11:9 Then I said, "I will not pasture
you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be
annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those
who are left eat one another's flesh."
ZEC 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.
ZEC 11:11 So it was broken on that day, and
thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me
realized that it was the word of the Lord.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 11:13 Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it
to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was
valued by them." So I took the thirty shekels of
silver and threw them to the potter in the house of
the Lord.
ZEC 11:14 Then I cut my second staff, Union,
in pieces, to break the brotherhood between Judah
and Israel.
ZEC 11:15 And the Lord said to me, "Take
again for yourself the equipment of a foolish
shepherd.
ZEC 11:16 "For behold, I am going to raise up
a shepherd in the land who will not care for the
perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or
sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh
of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.
ZEC 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."
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ZEC 12:1 The
burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
Thus declares the Lord who stretches out the
heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms
the spirit of man within him,
ZEC 12:2 "Behold, I am going to make
Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the
peoples around; and when the siege is against
Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.
ZEC 12:3 "And 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.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 12:5 "Then the clans of Judah will say in
their hearts, 'A strong support for us are the
inhabitants of Jerusalem through the Lord of hosts,
their God.'
ZEC 12:6 "In that day I will make the clans
of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a
flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on
the right hand and on the left all the surrounding
peoples, while the inhabitants of Jerusalem again
dwell on their own sites in Jerusalem.
ZEC 12:7 "The Lord also will save the tents
of Judah first in order that the glory of the house
of David and the glory of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.
ZEC 12:8 "In that day the Lord will defend
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is
feeble among them in that day will be like David,
and the house of David will be like God, like the
angel of the Lord before them.
ZEC 12:9 "And it will come about in that day
that I will set about to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.
ZEC 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-born.
ZEC 12:11 "In that day there will be great
mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of
Hadadrimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
ZEC 12:12 "And 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;
ZEC 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;
ZEC 12:14 all the families that remain, every
family by itself, and their wives by themselves.
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ZEC 13:1 "In that
day a fountain will be opened for the house of David
and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and
for impurity.
ZEC 13:2 "And 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.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 13:4 "Also it will come about in that day
that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision
when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy
robe in order to deceive;
ZEC 13:5 but he will say,' I am not a
prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man sold
me as a slave in my youth.'
ZEC 13:6 "And one will say to him, 'What are
these wounds between your arms?' Then he will say,
'Those with which I was wounded in the house of my
friends.'
ZEC 13:7 "Awake, O sword, against My
Shepherd, And against the man, My Associate,"
Declares the Lord of hosts."Strike the Shepherd that
the sheep may be scattered; And I will turn My hand
against the little ones.
ZEC 13:8 "And 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.
ZEC 13:9 "And I will bring the third part
through the fire, Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested. They will call on
My name, And I will answer them; I will say, 'They
are My people,' And they will say, 'The Lord is my
God.'"
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ZEC 14:1 Behold,
a day is coming for the Lord when the spoil taken
from you will be divided among you.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 14:3 Then the Lord will go forth and
fight against those nations, as when He fights on a
day of battle.
ZEC 14:4 And 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.
ZEC 14:5 And 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!
ZEC 14:6 And it will come about in that day
that there will be no light; the luminaries will
dwindle.
ZEC 14:7 For it will be a unique day which is
known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but it
will come about that at evening time there will be
light.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 14:9 And the Lord will be king over all
the earth; in that day the Lord will be the only
one, and His name the only one.
ZEC 14:10 All the land will be changed into a
plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but
Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from
Benjamin's Gate as far as the place of the First
Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of
Hananel to the king's wine presses.
ZEC 14:11 And people will live in it, and
there will be no more curse, for Jerusalem will
dwell in security.
ZEC 14:12 Now this will be the plague with
which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have
gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot
while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will
rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in
their mouth.
ZEC 14:13 And it will come about in that day
that a great panic from the Lord will fall on them;
and they will seize one another's hand, and the hand
of one will be lifted against the hand of another.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 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.
ZEC 14:16 Then it will come about that any
who are left of all the nations that went against
Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship
the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the
Feast of Booths.
ZEC 14:17 And it will be that whichever of
the families of the earth does not go up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts,
there will be no rain on them.
ZEC 14:18 And 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.
ZEC 14:19 This will be the punishment of
Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do
not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
ZEC 14:20 In that day there will be inscribed
on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO THE LORD." And
the cooking pots in the Lord's house will be like
the bowls before the altar.
ZEC 14:21 And 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.
