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In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius,
the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berechiah son of Iddo,
saying: 2 The LORD was very angry with your ancestors. 3 Therefore say to them,
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will
return to you, says the LORD of hosts. 4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom
the former prophets proclaimed, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your
evil ways and from your evil deeds." But they did not hear or heed me, says the
LORD. 5 Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did
they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, "The LORD of hosts
has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he planned to do." 7
On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the
second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah son of
Berechiah son of Iddo; and Zechariah said, 8 In the night I saw a man riding on
a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen; and behind him
were red, sorrel, and white horses. 9 Then I said, "What are these, my lord?"
The angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what they are." 10 So
the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, "They are those whom
the LORD has sent to patrol the earth." 11 Then they spoke to the angel of the
LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, "We have patrolled the earth, and
lo, the whole earth remains at peace." 12 Then the angel of the LORD said, "O
LORD of hosts, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of
Judah, with which you have been angry these seventy years?" 13 Then the LORD
replied with gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me. 14
So the angel who talked with me said to me, Proclaim this message: Thus says the
LORD of hosts; I am very jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion. 15 And I am
extremely angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was only a little
angry, they made the disaster worse. 16 Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have
returned to Jerusalem with compassion; my house shall be built in it, says the
LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem. 17
Proclaim further: Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow
with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem. 18
And I looked up and saw four horns. 19 I asked the angel who talked with me,
"What are these?" And he answered me, "These are the horns that have scattered
Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." 20 Then the LORD showed me four blacksmiths. 21
And I asked, "What are they coming to do?" He answered, "These are the horns
that scattered Judah, so that no head could be raised; but these have come to
terrify them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted up their horns
against the land of Judah to scatter its people."
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I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2
Then I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem, to
see what is its width and what is its length." 3 Then the angel who talked with
me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him, 4 and said to him,
"Run, say to that young man: Jerusalem shall be inhabited like villages without
walls, because of the multitude of people and animals in it. 5 For I will be a
wall of fire all around it, says the LORD, and I will be the glory within it." 6
Up, up! Flee from the land of the north, says the LORD; for I have spread you
abroad like the four winds of heaven, says the LORD. 7 Up! Escape to Zion, you
that live with daughter Babylon. 8 For thus said the LORD of hosts (after his
glory sent me) regarding the nations that plundered you: Truly, one who touches
you touches the apple of my eye. 9 See now, I am going to raise my hand against
them, and they shall become plunder for their own slaves. Then you will know
that the LORD of hosts has sent me. 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion! For
lo, I will come and dwell in your midst, says the LORD. 11 Many nations shall
join themselves to the LORD on that day, and shall be my people; and I will
dwell in your midst. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to
you. 12 The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will
again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be silent, all people, before the LORD; for he has
roused himself from his holy dwelling.
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Then he showed me the high priest Joshua standing before the
angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2 And the
LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen
Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this man a brand plucked from the fire?" 3 Now
Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel
said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes." And
to him he said, "See, I have taken your guilt away from you, and I will clothe
you with festal apparel." 5 And I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his
head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with the apparel;
and the angel of the LORD was standing by. 6 Then the angel of the LORD assured
Joshua, saying 7 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and
keep my requirements, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts,
and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here. 8 Now
listen, Joshua, high priest, you and your colleagues who sit before you! For
they are an omen of things to come: I am going to bring my servant the Branch. 9
For on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven
facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will
remove the guilt of this land in a single day. 10 On that day, says the LORD of
hosts, you shall invite each other to come under your vine and fig tree."
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The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as one
is wakened from sleep. 2 He said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see a
lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it; there are seven lamps on
it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. 3 And by it
there are two olive trees, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its
left." 4 I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?" 5
Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Do you not know what these are?"
I said, "No, my lord." 6 He said to me, "This is the word of the LORD to
Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of
hosts. 7 What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a
plain; and he shall bring out the top stone amid shouts of 'Grace, grace to
it!'" 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9 "The hands of
Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete
it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. 10 For whoever
has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in
the hand of Zerubbabel. "These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range
through the whole earth." 11 Then I said to him, "What are these two olive trees
on the right and the left of the lampstand?" 12 And a second time I said to him,
"What are these two branches of the olive trees, which pour out the oil through
the two golden pipes?" 13 He said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" I
said, "No, my lord." 14 Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand
by the Lord of the whole earth."
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Again I looked up and saw a flying scroll. 2 And he said to me,
"What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty
cubits, and its width ten cubits." 3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that
goes out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut
off according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall
be cut off according to the writing on the other side. 4 I have sent it out,
says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house
of anyone who swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in that house and
consume it, both timber and stones." 5 Then the angel who talked with me came
forward and said to me, "Look up and see what this is that is coming out." 6 I
said, "What is it?" He said, "This is a basket coming out." And he said, "This
is their iniquity in all the land." 7 Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there
was a woman sitting in the basket! 8 And he said, "This is Wickedness." So he
thrust her back into the basket, and pressed the leaden weight down on its
mouth. 9 Then I looked up and saw two women coming forward. The wind was in
their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the
basket between earth and sky. 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me,
"Where are they taking the basket?" 11 He said to me, "To the land of Shinar, to
build a house for it; and when this is prepared, they will set the basket down
there on its base."
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And again I looked up and saw four chariots coming out from
between two mountains--mountains of bronze. 2 The first chariot had red horses,
the second chariot black horses, 3 the third chariot white horses, and the
fourth chariot dappled gray horses. 4 Then I said to the angel who talked with
me, "What are these, my lord?" 5 The angel answered me, "These are the four
winds of heaven going out, after presenting themselves before the LORD of all
the earth. 6 The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country,
the white ones go toward the west country, and the dappled ones go toward the
south country." 7 When the steeds came out, they were impatient to get off and
patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." So they patrolled the
earth. 8 Then he cried out to me, "Lo, those who go toward the north country
have set my spirit at rest in the north country." 9 The word of the LORD came to
me: 10 Collect silver and gold from the exiles--from Heldai, Tobijah, and
Jedaiah--who have arrived from Babylon; and go the same day to the house of
Josiah son of Zephaniah. 11 Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set
it on the head of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak; 12 say to him: Thus
says the LORD of hosts: Here is a man whose name is Branch: for he shall branch
out in his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD. 13 It is he that
shall build the temple of the LORD; he shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and
rule on his throne. There shall be a priest by his throne, with peaceful
understanding between the two of them. 14 And the crown shall be in the care of
Heldai, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Josiah son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the
temple of the LORD. 15 Those who are far off shall come and help to build the
temple of the LORD; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to
you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.
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In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to
Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. 2 Now the
people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men, to entreat
the favor of the LORD, 3 and to ask the priests of the house of the LORD of
hosts and the prophets, "Should I mourn and practice abstinence in the fifth
month, as I have done for so many years?" 4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts
came to me: 5 Say to all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted
and lamented in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was
it for me that you fasted? 6 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat
and drink only for yourselves? 7 Were not these the words that the LORD
proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, along with the towns around it, and when the Negeb and the Shephelah
were inhabited? 8 The word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying: 9 Thus says
the LORD of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one
another; 10 do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do
not devise evil in your hearts against one another. 11 But they refused to
listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears in order not to
hear. 12 They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the
words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets.
Therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. 13 Just as, when I called,
they would not hear, so, when they called, I would not hear, says the LORD of
hosts, 14 and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they
had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and
fro, and a pleasant land was made desolate.
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The word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying: 2 Thus says
the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous
for her with great wrath. 3 Thus says the LORD: I will return to Zion, and will
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city,
and the mountain of the LORD of hosts shall be called the holy mountain. 4 Thus
says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of
Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age. 5 And the streets
of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. 6 Thus says
the LORD of hosts: Even though it seems impossible to the remnant of this people
in these days, should it also seem impossible to me, says the LORD of hosts? 7
Thus says the LORD of hosts: I will save my people from the east country and
from the west country; 8 and I will bring them to live in Jerusalem. They shall
be my people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness. 9
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Let your hands be strong--you that have recently
been hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets who were present when
the foundation was laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of the LORD
of hosts. 10 For before those days there were no wages for people or for
animals, nor was there any safety from the foe for those who went out or came
in, and I set them all against one other. 11 But now I will not deal with the
remnant of this people as in the former days, says the LORD of hosts. 12 For
there shall be a sowing of peace; the vine shall yield its fruit, the ground
shall give its produce, and the skies shall give their dew; and I will cause the
remnant of this people to possess all these things. 13 Just as you have been a
cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save
you and you shall be a blessing. Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.
14 For thus says the LORD of hosts: Just as I purposed to bring disaster upon
you, when your ancestors provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the
LORD of hosts, 15 so again I have purposed in these days to do good to Jerusalem
and to the house of Judah; do not be afraid. 16 These are the things that you
shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that
are true and make for peace, 17 do not devise evil in your hearts against one
another, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, says the
LORD. 18 The word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying: 19 Thus says 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 seasons of joy and gladness,
and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah: therefore love truth and peace.
20 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, the inhabitants of many
cities; 21 the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, "Come, let
us go to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I myself
am going." 22 Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of
hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of the LORD. 23 Thus says the LORD
of hosts: In those days ten men from nations of every language shall take hold
of a Jew, grasping his garment and saying, "Let us go with you, for we have
heard that God is with you."
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The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will
rest upon Damascus. For to the LORD belongs the capital of Aram, as do all the
tribes of Israel; 2 Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though
they are very wise. 3 Tyre has built itself a rampart, and heaped up silver like
dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets. 4 But now, the Lord will strip it
of its possessions and hurl its wealth into the sea, and it shall be devoured by
fire. 5 Ashkelon shall see it and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in
anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are withered. The king shall perish from
Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited; 6 a mongrel people shall settle in Ashdod,
and I will make an end of the pride of Philistia. 7 I will take away its blood
from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a
remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like
the Jebusites. 8 Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that no one shall
march to and fro; no oppressor shall again overrun them, for now I have seen
with my own eyes. 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter
Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble
and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 He will cut off the
chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall
be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be
from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. 11 As for you
also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners
free from the waterless pit. 12 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope;
today I declare that I will restore to you double. 13 For I have bent Judah as
my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will arouse your sons, O Zion, against
your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior's sword. 14 Then the LORD will
appear over them, and his arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound
the trumpet and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south. 15 The LORD of hosts
will protect them, and they shall devour and tread down the slingers; they shall
drink their blood like wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners
of the altar. 16 On that day the LORD their God will save them for they are the
flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his
land. 17 For what goodness and beauty are his! Grain shall make the young men
flourish, and new wine the young women.
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Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from
the LORD who makes the storm clouds, who gives showers of rain to you, the
vegetation in the field to everyone. 2 For the teraphim utter nonsense, and the
diviners see lies; the dreamers tell false dreams, and give empty consolation.
Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer for lack of a shepherd. 3 My
anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD
of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his
proud war horse. 4 Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent
peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every commander. 5 Together they
shall be like warriors in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets;
they shall fight, for the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the
riders on horses. 6 I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the
house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and
they shall be as though I had not rejected them; for I am the LORD their God and
I will answer them. 7 Then the people of Ephraim shall become like warriors, and
their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and
rejoice, their hearts shall exult in the LORD. 8 I will signal for them and
gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as numerous as they
were before. 9 Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries
they shall remember me, and they shall rear their children and return. 10 I will
bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; I will
bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, until there is no room for
them. 11 They shall pass through the sea of distress, and the waves of the sea
shall be struck down, and all the depths of the Nile dried up. The pride of
Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart. 12 I will make
them strong in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name, says the LORD.
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Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your
cedars! 2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are
ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled! 3 Listen,
the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Listen, the roar of the
lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed! 4 Thus said the LORD my
God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. 5 Those who buy them kill
them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, "Blessed be the LORD, for I
have become rich"; and their own shepherds have no pity on them. 6 For I will no
longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the LORD. I will cause
them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbor, and each into the
hand of the king; and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one
from their hand. 7 So, on behalf of the sheep merchants, I became the shepherd
of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favor, the
other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep. 8 In one month I disposed of the
three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested
me. 9 So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what
is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the
flesh of one another!" 10 I took my staff Favor and broke it, annulling the
covenant that I had made with all the peoples. 11 So it was annulled on that
day, and the sheep merchants, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of
the LORD. 12 I then said to them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages;
but if not, keep them." So they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of
silver. 13 Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it into the treasury"--this lordly
price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and
threw them into the treasury in the house of the LORD. 14 Then I broke my second
staff Unity, annulling the family ties between Judah and Israel. 15 Then the
LORD said to me: Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd. 16 For I
am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or
seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy, but devours the
flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs. 17 Oh, my worthless
shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye!
Let his arm be completely withered, his right eye utterly blinded!
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The word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus says the LORD,
who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit
within: 2 See, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the
surrounding peoples; it will be against Judah also in the siege against
Jerusalem. 3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the
peoples; all who lift it shall grievously hurt themselves. And all the nations
of the earth shall come together against it. 4 On that day, says the LORD, I
will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But on the house
of Judah I will keep a watchful eye, when I strike every horse of the peoples
with blindness. 5 Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, "The
inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God." 6
On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot on a pile of wood,
like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to
the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited
in its place, in Jerusalem. 7 And the LORD will give victory to the tents of
Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the
inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah. 8 On that day
the LORD will shield the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the feeblest among
them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God,
like the angel of the LORD, at their head. 9 And on that day I will seek to
destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 And I will pour out a
spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they
shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over
him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem
will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12
The land shall mourn, each 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; 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; 14 and all the families that are left, each by
itself, and their wives by themselves.
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On that day a fountain shall be opened for the house of David
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. 2 On
that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the
land, so that they shall be remembered no more; and also I will remove from the
land the prophets and the unclean spirit. 3 And if any prophets appear again,
their fathers and mothers who bore them will say to them, "You shall not live,
for you speak lies in the name of the LORD"; and their fathers and their mothers
who bore them shall pierce them through when they prophesy. 4 On that day the
prophets will be ashamed, every one, of their visions when they prophesy; they
will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive, 5 but each of them will say,
"I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil; for the land has been my possession
since my youth." 6 And if anyone asks them, "What are these wounds on your
chest?" the answer will be "The wounds I received in the house of my friends." 7
"Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate," says
the LORD of hosts. Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will
turn my hand against the little ones. 8 In the whole land, says the LORD,
two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one-third shall be left alive. 9 And
I will put this third into the fire, refine them as one refines silver, 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 our God."
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See, a day is coming for the LORD, when the plunder taken from
you will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations against
Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses looted and the
women raped; half the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall
not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight against
those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. 4 On that day his feet shall
stand on the Mount of Olives, which lies before Jerusalem on the east; and the
Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley;
so that one half of the Mount shall withdraw northward, and the other half
southward. 5 And you shall flee by the valley of the Lord's mountain, for the
valley between the mountains shall reach to Azal; and you shall flee as you fled
from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the LORD my God
will come, and all the holy ones with him. 6 On that day there shall not be
either cold or frost. 7 And there shall be continuous day (it is known to the
LORD), not day and not night, for at evening time there shall be light. 8 On
that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the
eastern sea and half of them to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as
in winter. 9 And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the
LORD will be one and his name one. 10 The whole land shall be turned into a
plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft
on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the
Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's wine presses. 11 And it
shall be inhabited, for never again shall it be doomed to destruction; Jerusalem
shall abide in security. 12 This shall be the plague with which the LORD will
strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot
while they are still on their feet; their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and
their tongues shall rot in their mouths. 13 On that day a great panic from the
LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of a neighbor, and the
hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other; 14 even Judah will
fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be
collected--gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. 15 And a plague like
this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and
whatever animals may be in those camps. 16 Then all who survive of the nations
that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the festival of booths. 17 If any of the
families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, there will be no rain upon them. 18 And if the family of Egypt do not go
up and present themselves, then on them shall come the plague that the LORD
inflicts on the nations that do not go up to keep the festival of booths. 19
Such shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that
do not go up to keep the festival of booths. 20 On that day there shall be
inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to the LORD." And the cooking pots
in the house of the LORD shall be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar; 21
and every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be sacred to the LORD of
hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and use them to boil the flesh of the
sacrifice. And there shall no longer be traders in the house of the LORD of
hosts on that day.
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