1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word

of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of

Iddo the prophet, saying,

1:2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:

1:3 And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord

of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will

come back to you.

1:4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier

prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and

from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take

note, says the Lord.

1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go

on living for ever?

1:6 But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the

prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning

back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to

do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he

done.

1:7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month

Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came

to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the

prophet, saying,

1:8 I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the

mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red,

black, white, and of mixed colours.

1:9 Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who

was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what

they are.

1:10 And the man who was between the mountains, answering me,

said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down

through the earth.

1:11 And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said

to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the

earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.

1:12 Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of

armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem

and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been

burning for seventy years?

1:13 And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to

the angel who was talking to me.

1:14 And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your

voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of

armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of

Zion.

1:15 And I am very angry with the nations who are living

untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the

evil worse.

1:16 So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to

Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says

the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over

Jerusalem.

1:17 And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the

Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing

with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion

and take Jerusalem for himself.

1:18 And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.

1:19 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are

these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent

Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.

1:20 And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.

1:21 Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These

are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from

lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on

them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns

against the land of Judah to send it in flight.

2:1 And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in

his hand.

2:2 And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me,

To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long

it is.

2:3 And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another

angel went out, and, meeting him,

2:4 Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem

will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men

and cattle in her.

2:5 For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about

her, and I will be the glory inside her.

2:6 Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the

Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of

heaven, says the Lord.

2:7 Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with

the daughter of Babylon.

2:8 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of

glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your

goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to

him.

2:9 For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be

taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that

the Lord of armies has sent me.

2:10 Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I

will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.

2:11 And a number of nations will be joined to the Lord in that

day, and will become my people; and I will be living among you,

and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.

2:12 And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and

Jerusalem will again be his.

2:13 Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord:

for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.

3:1 And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place

before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand

ready to take up a cause against him.

3:2 And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp

against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken

Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out

of the fire?

3:3 Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his

place before the angel.

3:4 And he made answer and said to those who were there before

him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in

clean robes;

3:5 And let them put a clean head-dress on his head. So they put

a clean head-dress on his head, clothing him with clean robes:

and to him he said, See, I have taken your sin away from you.

3:6 And the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and

said,

3:7 These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in

my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be

judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will

give you the right to come in among those who are there.

3:8 Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your

friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a

sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.

3:9 For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one

stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my

work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of

that land in one day.

3:10 In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one

another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.

4:1 And the angel who was talking to me came again, awaking me

as a man out of his sleep.

4:2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a

light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it

and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one

of the lights which are on the top of it;

4:3 And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup

and one on the left.

4:4 And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to

me, What are these, my lord?

4:5 Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said,

Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my

lord.

4:6 This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by

force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.

4:7 Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will

become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries

of Grace, grace, to it.

4:8 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in

place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be

clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.

4:10 For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things?

for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line

in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These

seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and

down through all the earth.

4:11 And I made answer and said to him, What are these two

olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the

left?

4:12 And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these

two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained

out?

4:13 And he said in answer to me, Have you no knowledge what

these are? And I said, No, my lord.

4:14 And he said, These are the two sons of oil, whose place is

by the Lord of all the earth.

5:1 Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through

the air.

5:2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going

through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.

5:3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over

the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone

without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false

oaths gone without punishment.

5:4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will

go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who

takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house,

causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its

stones.

5:5 And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me,

Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is

going out.

5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which

is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in

all the land.

5:7 And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was

seated in the middle of the ephah.

5:8 And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the

ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

5:9 And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the

wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a

stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and

heaven.

5:10 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are

they taking the ephah?

5:11 And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of

Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in

the place which is hers.

6:1 And again lifting up my eyes I saw four war-carriages coming

out from between the two mountains; and the mountains were

mountains of brass.

6:2 In the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the

second, black horses;

6:3 And in the third, white horses; and in the fourth, horses of

mixed colour.

6:4 And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to

me, What are these, my lord?

6:5 And the angel, answering, said to me, These go out to the

four winds of heaven from their place before the Lord of all

the earth.

6:6 The carriage in which are the black horses goes in the

direction of the north country; the white go to the west; and

those of mixed colour go in the direction of the south country.

6:7 And the red ones go to the east; and they made request that

they might go up and down through the earth: and he said, Go up

and down through the earth. So they went up and down through

the earth.

6:8 Then crying out to me, he said, See, those who are going to

the north country have given rest to the spirit of the Lord in

the north country.

6:9 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

6:10 Take the offerings of those who went away as prisoners,

from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, and from the family of

Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, who have come from Babylon;

6:11 And take silver and gold and make a crown and put it on the

head of Zerubbabel;

6:12 And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies:

See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be

fertile growth.

6:13 And he will be the builder of the Temple of the Lord; and

the glory will be his, and he will take his place as ruler on

the seat of power; and Joshua will be a priest at his right

hand, and between them there will be a design of peace.

6:14 And the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and

Jedaiah and the son of Zephaniah, to keep their memory living

in the house of the Lord.

6:15 And those who are far away will come and be builders in the

Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord

of armies has sent me to you.

7:1 And 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, the month Chislev.

7:2 Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to

make a request for grace from the Lord,

7:3 And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies

and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month,

separating myself as I have done in past years?

7:4 Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying

7:5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When

you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth

and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do

it because of me?

7:6 And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it

only for yourselves?

7:7 Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the

earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth,

and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland

were peopled?

7:8 And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

7:9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging

be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and

pity for his brother:

7:10 Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father,

on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be

no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

7:11 But they would not give attention, turning their backs and

stopping their ears from hearing;

7:12 And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that

they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord

of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came

great wrath from the Lord of armies.

7:13 And it came about that as they would not give ear to his

voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of

armies:

7:14 But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the

nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste

after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they

had made waste the desired land.

8:1 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

8:2 These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about

the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.

8:3 This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion,

and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will

be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord

of armies The holy mountain.

8:4 This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again

be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of

Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is

so old.

8:5 And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and

girls playing in its open spaces.

8:6 This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a

wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says

the Lord of armies.

8:7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the

saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west

country;

8:8 And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and

they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in

good faith and in righteousness.

8:9 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be

strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of

the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the

house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the

building of the house, that is the Temple.

8:10 For before those days there was no payment for a man's

work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him

who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I

had every man turned against his neighbour.

8:11 But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was

in the past, says the Lord of armies.

8:12 For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will

give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the

heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of

this people all these things for their heritage.

8:13 And it will come about that, as you were a curse among the

nations, O children of Judah and children of Israel, so I will

give you salvation and you will be a blessing: have no fear and

let your hands be strong.

8:14 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my

purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says

the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:

8:15 So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to

Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.

8:16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say

what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace

in your towns.

8:17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his

neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these

things are hated by me, says the Lord.

8:18 And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,

8:19 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The times of

going without food in the fourth month and in the fifth and the

seventh and the tenth months, will be for the people of Judah

times of joy and happy meetings; so be lovers of good faith and

of peace.

8:20 This is what the Lord of armies has said: It will again

come about that when peoples and those living in great towns

come,

8:21 And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us

certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to

give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.

8:22 And great peoples and strong nations will come to give

worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests

for grace from the Lord.

8:23 This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days,

ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out

their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew,

saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that

God is with you.

9:1 A word of the Lord: The Lord has come to the land of

Hadrach, and Damascus is his resting-place: for the towns of

Aram are the Lord's,

9:2 As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and

Zidon, because they are very wise.

9:3 And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together

silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the

streets.

9:4 See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her

power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.

9:5 Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain;

and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be

cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.

9:6 And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have

the pride of the Philistines cut off.

9:7 And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his

disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his

people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in

Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.

9:8 And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that

there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will

again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.

9:9 Be full of joy, O daughter of Zion; give a glad cry, O

daughter of Jerusalem: see, your king comes to you: he is

upright and has overcome; gentle and seated on an ass, on a

young ass.

9:10 And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and

the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off:

and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule

will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the

earth.

9:11 And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I

have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there

is no water.

9:12 And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as

prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back

twice as much;

9:13 For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made

Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion,

take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you

like the sword of a man of war.

9:14 And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go

out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the

war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.

9:15 The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will

overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take

their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the

sides of the altar.

9:16 And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day,

giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be

like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.

9:17 For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the

young men strong and new wine the virgins.

10:1 Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the

spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames;

and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in

the field.

10:2 For the images have said what is not true, and the readers

of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false

dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the

way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.

10:3 My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I

will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies

takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make

them like the horse of his pride in the fight.

10:4 From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from

him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler;

10:5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their

haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will

make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will

be shamed.

10:6 And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be

the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them

come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as

if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I

will give them an answer.

10:7 And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts

will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with

joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.

10:8 With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I

have given the price to make them free: and they will be

increased as they were increased.

10:9 Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep

me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their

children and will come back.

10:10 And I will make them come back out of the land of Egypt,

and will get them together out of Assyria; and I will take them

into the land of Gilead, and it will not be wide enough for

them.

10:11 And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the

deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of

Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken

away.

10:12 And their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride

will be in his name, says the Lord.

11:1 Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be

burning among your cedars.

11:2 Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar,

because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief,

O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have

come down.

11:3 The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for

their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the

young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

11:4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the

flock of death;

11:5 Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin;

and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised

for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no

pity for them.

11:6 For I will have no more pity for the people of the land,

says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's

hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land

waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

11:7 So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made

profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming

one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the

flock.

11:8 And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the

flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were

disgusted with me.

11:9 And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to

any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut

off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

11:10 And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that

the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples,

might be broken.

11:11 And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who

were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the

Lord.

11:12 And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my

payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment

by weight, thirty shekels of silver.

11:13 And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the

price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty

shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the

house of the Lord.

11:14 Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it

in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and

Israel might be broken.

11:15 And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a

foolish keeper of sheep.

11:16 For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will

have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in

search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he

will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for

his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

11:17 A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the

flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his

arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely

dark.

12:1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the

heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in

place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

12:2 See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the

peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.

12:3 And it will come about in that day that I will make

Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all

those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations

of the earth will come together against it.

12:4 In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every

horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will

be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of

the peoples blind.

12:5 And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The

people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies,

their God.

12:6 In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot

with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut

grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round

about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be

living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.

12:7 And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah

first, so that the glory of the family of David and the glory

of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of

Judah.

12:8 In that day the Lord will be a cover over the people of

Jerusalem; and he who is feeble among them in that day will be

as strong as David, and the family of David will be as God, as

the angel of the Lord before them.

12:9 And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand

the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.

12:10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the

people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and

their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their

hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and

their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one

sorrowing for his oldest son.

12:11 In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem,

like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

12:12 And the land will give itself to weeping, every family

separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives

by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their

wives by themselves;

12:13 The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by

themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives

by themselves;

12:14 And all the other families by themselves, and their wives

by themselves.

13:1 In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of

David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that

which is unclean.

13:2 And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of

armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of

the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will

send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the

land.

13:3 And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father

and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not

go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of

the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword

through him when he does so.

13:4 And it will come about in that day that the prophets will

be shamed, every man on account of his vision, when he is

talking as a prophet; and they will not put on a robe of hair

for purposes of deceit:

13:5 But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land;

for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was

young.

13:6 And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between

your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in

the house of my friends.

13:7 Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against

him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the

keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my

hand will be turned against the little ones.

13:8 And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord,

two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the

third will be still living there.

13:9 And I will make the third part go through the fire,

cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold

is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will

give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will

say, The Lord is my God.

14:1 See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make

division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

14:2 For I will get all the nations together to make war against

Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken

from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the

town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will

not be cut off from the town.

14:3 Then the Lord will go out and make war against those

nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

14:4 And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives,

which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of

Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the

west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will

be moved to the north and half of it to the south.

14:5 And the valley will be stopped ... and you will go in

flight as you went in flight from the earth-shock in the days

of Uzziah, king of Judah: and the Lord my God will come, and

all his holy ones with him.

14:6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

14:7 And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge

of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it

will be light.

14:8 And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem;

half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea

on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.

14:9 And the Lord will be King over all the earth: in that day

there will be one Lord and his name one.

14:10 And all the land will become like the Arabah, from Geba to

Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and be

living in her place; from the doorway of Benjamin to the place

of the first doorway, to the doorway of the angle, and from the

tower of Hananel to the king's wine-crushing places, men will

be living in her.

14:11 And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be

living without fear of danger.

14:12 And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on

all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem:

their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet,

their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in

their mouths.

14:13 And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent

among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his

neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against

his neighbour's.

14:14 And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the

wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together,

a great store of gold and silver and clothing.

14:15 And the horses and the transport beasts, the camels and

the asses and all the beasts in those tents will be attacked by

the same disease.

14:16 And it will come about that everyone who is still living,

of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up

from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of

armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

14:17 And it will be that if any one of all the families of the

earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King,

the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain.

14:18 And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there,

they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send

on the nations:

14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment

of all the nations who do not go up to keep the feast of tents.

14:20 On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to

the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the

basins before the altar.

14:21 And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to

the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come

and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there

will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.