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  Zechariah

  1:1 In the eighth month, in the sed year of Darius, came the , saying,

  1:2 The LORD hath been sore displeased hers.

  1:3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turo me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I s.

  1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto he LORD.

  1:5 Your fathers, hey live for ever?

  1:6 But my h us.

  1:7 Upon the four aieth day of the eleventh month, , saying,

  1:8 I sae.

  1:9 Then said I, O my lord, hese be.

  1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees ansh.

  1:11 And they ans.

  1:12 Then the angel of the LORD ansen years?

  1:13 And the LORD ansable words.

  1:14 So the ahatmunedjealousy.

  1:15 And I am very sore displeased ion.

  1:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returo Jerusalem h upon Jerusalem.

  1:17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yetfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

  1:18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

  1:19 And I said unto the ahat talked ered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

  1:20 And the LORD sheers.

  1:21 Then said I, Whate these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns .

  2:1 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man h a measuring line in his hand.

  2:2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see hereof.

  2:3 And, behold, the ahat talkedhim,

  2:4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as toherein:

  2:5 For I, saith the LORD,of her.

  2:6 Ho, ho,e forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four he LORD.

  2:7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that der of Babylon.

  2:8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he seo the nations he apple of his eye.

  2:9 For, behold, Ime.

  2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, Ie, and I he LORD.

  2:11 And many nations shall be joio the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I hee.

  2:12 And the LORD shall i Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

  2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

  3:1 And he she him.

  3:2 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?

  3:3 Nohe angel.

  3:4 And he ans.

  3:5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him ood by.

  3:6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,

  3:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou and by.

  3:8 Hear nohe BRANCH.

  3:9 For behold the stohat I have laid before Joshua; upoone shall be seven eyes: behold, Iland in one day.

  3:10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour uhe vine and uhe fig tree.

  4:1 And the ahat talkedof his sleep.

  4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a dlestick all of gold, hereof:

  4:3 Ando olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bohereof.

  4:4 So I anshese, my lord?

  4:5 Then the ahat talked hese be? And I said, No, my lord.

  4:6 Then he anss.

  4:7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt be a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstohereof .

  4:8 Moreover the o me, saying,

  4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt knoo you.

  4:10 For h.

  4:11 Then anshereof?

  4:12 And I anshemselves?

  4:13 And he anshese be? And I said, No, my lord.

  4:14 Then said he, These are theo anointed ohat stand by the LORD of the h.

  5:1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

  5:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I anss.

  5:3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the .

  5:4 I hereof.

  5:5 Then the ahat talked h.

  5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblahrough all the earth.

  5:7 And, behold, there he ephah.

  5:8 And he said, This is hereof.

  5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came outo he heaven.

  5:10 Then said I to the ahat talked he ephah?

  5:11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, ahere upon her own base.

  6:1 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from beeno mountains; and the mountains ains of brass.

  6:2 In the first chariotblack horses;

  6:3 And ihird chariotgrisled and bay horses.

  6:4 Then I anshese, my lord?

  6:5 And the angel ansh.

  6:6 The black horses ry.

  6:7 And the bay h.

  6:8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go tory.

  6:9 And the o me, saying,

  6:10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, he son of Zephaniah;

  6:11 Then take silver and gold, and make cro;

  6:12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man he LORD:

  6:13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the sel of peace shall be been them both.

  6:14 And the crohe LORD.

  6:15 And they that are far off shalle and build iemple of the LORD, and ye shall knohe LORD yod.

  7:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the h, even in Chisleu;

  7:2 When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

  7:3 And to speak unto the priests hese so many years?

  7:4 Then came the o me, saying,

  7:5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth ah month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

  7:6 Andfor yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

  7:7 Should ye not hear the he plain?

  7:8 And the o Zechariah, saying,

  7:9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and sheher:

  7:10 And oppress not the .

  7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled a hear.

  7:12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the las.

  7:13 Therefore it ise to pass, that as he cried, and they s:

  7:14 But I scattered them e.

  8:1 Again the o me, saying,

  8:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ifury.

  8:3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and ain.

  8:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old aff in his hand for very age.

  8:5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing ireets thereof.

  8:6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

  8:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I ry;

  8:8 And I eousness.

  8:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these .

  8:10 For before these days therehis neighbour.

  8:11 But nos.

  8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dehings.

  8:13 And it shalle to pass, that as ye rong.

  8:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, :

  8:15 So again have I thought in these days to do .

  8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every maruth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and pea yates:

  8:17 A none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

  8:18 And the o me, saying,

  8:19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

  8:20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yete to pass, that there shalle people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

  8:21 And the inhabitants of oy shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

  8:22 Yea, many people and strong nations shalle to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

  8:23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shalle to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jeh you.

  9:1 The burden of the he LORD.

  9:2 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.

  9:3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

  9:4 Behold, the LORD h fire.

  9:5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorroed.

  9:6 And a bastard shall dines.

  9:7 And I e.

  9:8 And I h mine eyes.

  9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy Kih unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lohe foal of an ass.

  9:10 And I h.

  9:11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy ant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit er.

  9:12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I hee;

  9:13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the boy man.

  9:14 And the LORD shall be seehem, and his arroh.

  9:15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue ar.

  9:16 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 croed up as an ensign upon his land.

  9:17 For hohe maids.

  10:1 Ask ye of the LORD rain iime of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them shohe field.

  10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; theyfort in vain: therefore they here was no shepherd.

  10:3 Mine anger le.

  10:4 Out of him came forth the er, out of him the nail, out of him the battle boher.

  10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, he riders on horses shall be founded.

  10:6 And I hem.

  10:7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through he LORD.

  10:8 I hey have increased.

  10:9 And I urn again.

  10:10 I hem.

  10:11 And he shall pass through the seaaway.

  10:12 And I he LORD.

  11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

  11:2 Hoage ise down.

  11:3 There is a voice of the hohe pride of Jordan is spoiled.

  11:4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

  11:5 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 o.

  11:6 For I hem.

  11:7 And I he flock.

  11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

  11:9 Then said I, I her.

  11:10 And I took my staff, evey, and cut it asuhat I might break my ant he people.

  11:11 And it he LORD.

  11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they y pieces of silver.

  11:13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I he LORD.

  11:14 Then I cut asunder miher staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood been Judah and Israel.

  11:15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

  11:16 For, lo, I heir claws in pieces.

  11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the serly darkened.

  12:1 The burden of the hin him.

  12:2 Behold, IJerusalem.

  12:3 And in that day .

  12:4 In that day, saith the LORD, I h blindness.

  12:5 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.

  12:6 In that day ed again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

  12:7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

  12:8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; ahat 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.

  12:9 And it shalle to pass in that day, that IJerusalem.

  12:10 And I born.

  12:11 In that day shall there be a great m in Jerusalem, as the m of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

  12:12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their ;

  12:13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their ;

  12:14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their .

  13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opeo the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for unness.

  13:2 And it shalle to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I he land.

  13:3 And it shalle to pass, that h.

  13:4 And it shalle to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, o deceive:

  13:5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

  13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are these he house of my friends.

  13:7 Ale ones.

  13:8 And it shalle to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD,o parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

  13:9 And I hey shall say, The LORD is my God.

  14:1 Behold, the day of the LORDeth, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

  14:2 For I y.

  14:3 Then shall the Lo forth, and fight against those nations, as le.

  14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, h.

  14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reato Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shalle, and all the saints hee.

  14:6 And it shalle to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

  14:7 But it shall be one day .

  14:8 And it shall be in that day, that livingbe.

  14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

  14:10 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 er gate, and from the tohe king"s winepresses.

  14:11 And men shall ded.

  14:12 And this shall be the plague h.

  14:13 And it shalle 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 neighbour.

  14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and theabundance.

  14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be ients, as this plague.

  14:16 And it shalle to pass, that every ohat is left of all the nations abernacles.

  14:17 And it shall be, that hem shall be no rain.

  14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, a, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, abernacles.

  14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations thate not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

  14:20 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 boar.

  14:21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shalle and take of them, ahe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the aanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.