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+Book 38 Zechariah
+001:001 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word
+        of Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son
+        of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
+001:002 "Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.
+001:003 Therefore tell them:  Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  'Return to me,'
+        says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will return to you,'
+        says Yahweh of Armies.
+001:004 Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets
+        proclaimed, saying:  Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'Return now
+        from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they
+        did not hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
+001:005 Your fathers, where are they?  And the prophets,
+        do they live forever?
+001:006 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants
+        the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers?
+        "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies
+        determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according
+        to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
+001:007 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is
+        the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of
+        Yahweh came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo,
+        the prophet, saying,
+001:008 "I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse,
+        and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine;
+        and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
+001:009 Then I asked, 'My lord, what are these?'"  The angel who talked
+        with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."
+001:010 The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, "They are
+        the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth."
+001:011 They reported to the angel of Yahweh who stood among the myrtle trees,
+        and said, "We have walked back and forth through the earth,
+        and behold, all the earth is at rest and in peace."
+001:012 Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long
+        will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah,
+        against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"
+001:013 Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind
+        and comforting words.
+001:014 So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying,
+        'Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "I am jealous for Jerusalem
+        and for Zion with a great jealousy.
+001:015 I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was
+        but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."
+001:016 Therefore thus says Yahweh:  "I have returned to Jerusalem
+        with mercy.  My house shall be built in it," says Yahweh of Armies,
+        "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'
+001:017 "Proclaim further, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "My cities
+        will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again
+        comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"
+001:018 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
+001:019 I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?"
+        He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered
+        Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
+001:020 Yahweh showed me four craftsmen.
+001:021 Then I asked, "What are these coming to do?"  He said,
+        "These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man
+        lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them,
+        to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their
+        horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."
+002:001 I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring
+        line in his hand.
+002:002 Then I asked, "Where are you going?"  He said to me,
+        "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what
+        is its length."
+002:003 Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another
+        angel went out to meet him,
+002:004 and said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying,
+        'Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls,
+        because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
+002:005 For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it,
+        and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
+002:006 Come!  Come!  Flee from the land of the north,' says Yahweh;
+        'for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,'
+        says Yahweh.
+002:007 'Come, Zion!  Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.'
+002:008 For thus says Yahweh of Armies:  'For honor he has sent me
+        to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you
+        touches the apple of his eye.
+002:009 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be
+        a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh
+        of Armies has sent me.
+002:010 Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come,
+        and I will dwell in the midst of you,' says Yahweh.
+002:011 Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day,
+        and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you,
+        and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
+002:012 Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land,
+        and will again choose Jerusalem.
+002:013 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself
+        from his holy habitation!"
+003:001 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before
+        the angel of Yahweh, and Satan standing at his right hand
+        to be his adversary.
+003:002 Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan!  Yes, Yahweh who
+        has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you!  Isn't this a burning stick
+        plucked out of the fire?"
+003:003 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing
+        before the angel.
+003:004 He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying,
+        "Take the filthy garments off of him."  To him he said,
+        "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you,
+        and I will clothe you with rich clothing."
+003:005 I said, "Let them set a clean turban on his head."
+        So they set a clean turban on his head, and clothed him;
+        and the angel of Yahweh was standing by.
+003:006 The angel of Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying,
+003:007 "Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  'If you will walk in my ways,
+        and if you will keep my charge, then you also shall judge
+        my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you
+        a place of access among these who stand by.
+003:008 Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows
+        who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign:
+        for, behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch.
+003:009 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone
+        are seven eyes:  behold, I will engrave the engraving of it,'
+        says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity
+        of that land in one day.
+003:010 In that day,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'you will invite every
+        man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig tree.'"
+004:001 The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me,
+        as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
+004:002 He said to me, "What do you see?"  I said, "I have seen,
+        and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top
+        of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes
+        to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
+004:003 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl,
+        and the other on the left side of it."
+004:004 I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying,
+        "What are these, my lord?"
+004:005 Then the angel who talked with me answered me, "Don't you know
+        what these are?"  I said, "No, my lord."
+004:006 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the word
+        of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power,
+        but by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of Armies.
+004:007 Who are you, great mountain?  Before Zerubbabel you are a plain;
+        and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of 'Grace,
+        grace, to it!'"
+004:008 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+004:009 "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house.
+        His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh
+        of Armies has sent me to you.
+004:010 Indeed, who despises the day of small things?
+        For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line
+        in the hand of Zerubbabel.  These are the eyes of Yahweh,
+        which run back and forth through the whole earth."
+004:011 Then I asked him, "What are these two olive trees on the right
+        side of the lampstand and on the left side of it?"
+004:012 I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive branches,
+        which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden
+        oil out of themselves?"
+004:013 He answered me, "Don't you know what these are?"
+        I said, "No, my lord."
+004:014 Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand
+        by the Lord of the whole earth."
+005:001 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold,
+        a flying scroll.
+005:002 He said to me, "What do you see?"  I answered, "I see a flying scroll;
+        its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."
+005:003 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over
+        the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall
+        be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone
+        who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on
+        the other side.
+005:004 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it
+        will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house
+        of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain
+        in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber
+        and its stones."
+005:005 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me,
+        "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."
+005:006 I said, "What is it?"  He said, "This is the ephah{ An ephah
+        is a measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons,
+        4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.
+        } basket that is appearing."  He said moreover, "This is
+        their appearance in all the land
+005:007 (and behold, a talent{A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms
+        or 75 pounds.} of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman
+        sitting in the midst of the ephah basket."
+005:008 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into
+        the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead
+        on its mouth.
+005:009 Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold,
+        there were two women, and the wind was in their wings.
+        Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted
+        up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.
+005:010 Then said I to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these
+        carrying the ephah basket?"
+005:011 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar.
+        When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."
+006:001 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots
+        came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were
+        mountains of brass.
+006:002 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second
+        chariot black horses;
+006:003 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot
+        dappled horses, all of them powerful.
+006:004 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
+006:005 The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky,
+        which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
+006:006 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country;
+        and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth
+        toward the south country."
+006:007 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk
+        back and forth through the earth:  and he said, "Go around
+        and through the earth!"  So they walked back and forth
+        through the earth.
+006:008 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold,
+        those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit
+        in the north country."
+006:009 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
+006:010 "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah,
+        and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house
+        of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
+006:011 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on
+        the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
+006:012 and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "Behold,
+        the man whose name is the Branch:  and he shall grow up out
+        of his place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh;
+006:013 even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear
+        the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall
+        be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall
+        be between them both.
+006:014 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah,
+        and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the
+        temple of Yahweh.
+006:015 Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh;
+        and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
+        This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice
+        of Yahweh your God."'"
+007:001 It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word
+        of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month,
+        the month of Chislev.
+007:002 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men,
+        to entreat Yahweh's favor,
+007:003 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies,
+        and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month,
+        separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
+007:004 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
+007:005 "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying,
+        'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh
+        month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me,
+        really to me?
+007:006 When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves,
+        and drink for yourselves?
+007:007 Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets,
+        when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities
+        around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'"
+007:008 The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,
+007:009 "Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true judgment,
+        and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
+007:010 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner,
+        nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his
+        brother in your heart.'
+007:011 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped
+        their ears, that they might not hear.
+007:012 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might
+        hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent
+        by his Spirit by the former prophets.  Therefore great wrath
+        came from Yahweh of Armies.
+007:013 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused
+        to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,"
+        said Yahweh of Armies;
+007:014 "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations
+        which they have not known.  Thus the land was desolate
+        after them, so that no man passed through nor returned:
+        for they made the pleasant land desolate."
+008:001 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
+008:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "I am jealous for Zion with
+        great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."
+008:003 Thus says Yahweh:  "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the
+        midst of Jerusalem.  Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of Truth;'
+        and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.'"
+008:004 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "Old men and old women will again
+        dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff
+        in his hand for very age.
+008:005 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing
+        in its streets."
+008:006 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "If it is marvelous in the eyes
+        of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be
+        marvelous in my eyes?" says Yahweh of Armies.
+008:007 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "Behold, I will save my people
+        from the east country, and from the west country;
+008:008 and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem;
+        and they will be my people, and I will be their God,
+        in truth and in righteousness."
+008:009 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "Let your hands be strong,
+        you who hear in these days these words from the mouth
+        of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation
+        of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple,
+        that it might be built.
+008:010 For before those days there was no wages for man,
+        nor any wages for an animal; neither was there any peace
+        to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary.
+        For I set all men everyone against his neighbor.
+008:011 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in
+        the former days," says Yahweh of Armies.
+008:012 "For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit,
+        and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will
+        give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people
+        to inherit all these things.
+008:013 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among
+        the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I
+        save you, and you shall be a blessing.  Don't be afraid.
+        Let your hands be strong."
+008:014 For thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "As I thought to do evil to you,
+        when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of Armies,
+        "and I didn't repent;
+008:015 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem
+        and to the house of Judah.  Don't be afraid.
+008:016 These are the things that you shall do:  speak every man
+        the truth with his neighbor.  Execute the judgment of truth
+        and peace in your gates,
+008:017 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against
+        his neighbor, and love no false oath:  for all these are things
+        that I hate," says Yahweh.
+008:018 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
+008:019 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "The fasts of the fourth fifth,
+        seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah
+        joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts.  Therefore love
+        truth and peace."
+008:020 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "Many peoples, and the inhabitants
+        of many cities will yet come;
+008:021 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us
+        go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh
+        of Armies.  I will go also.'
+008:022 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh
+        of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh."
+008:023 Thus says Yahweh of Armies:  "In those days, ten men will take hold,
+        out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold
+        of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you,
+        for we have heard that God is with you.'"
+009:001 An oracle.  The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach,
+        and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all
+        the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;
+009:002 and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon,
+        because they are very wise.
+009:003 Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust,
+        and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
+009:004 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her
+        power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.
+009:005 Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in agony;
+        as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed;
+        and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will
+        not be inhabited.
+009:006 Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride
+        of the Philistines.
+009:007 I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations
+        from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant for our God;
+        and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
+009:008 I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass
+        through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more:
+        for now I have seen with my eyes.
+009:009 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!  Shout, daughter
+        of Jerusalem!  Behold, your king comes to you!  He is righteous,
+        and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey,
+        even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
+009:010 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem;
+        and the battle bow 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.
+009:011 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have
+        set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
+009:012 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope!  Even today I
+        declare that I will restore double to you.
+009:013 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me.  I have filled
+        the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion,
+        against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword
+        of a mighty man.
+009:014 Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash
+        like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet,
+        and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
+009:015 Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy
+        and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink,
+        and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls,
+        like the corners of the altar.
+009:016 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock
+        of his people; for they are like the jewels of a crown,
+        lifted on high over his land.
+009:017 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
+        Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
+010:001 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes
+        storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for
+        the plants in the field.
+010:002 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen
+        a lie; and they have told false dreams.  They comfort in vain.
+        Therefore they go their way like sheep.  They are oppressed,
+        because there is no shepherd.
+010:003 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish
+        the male goats; For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock,
+        the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse
+        in the battle.
+010:004 From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail,
+        from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
+010:005 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in
+        the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them;
+        and the riders on horses will be confounded.
+010:006 "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house
+        of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them;
+        and they will be as though I had not cast them off:
+        for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
+010:007 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice
+        as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice.
+        Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
+010:008 I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them;
+        and they will increase as they have increased.
+010:009 I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me
+        in far countries; and they will live with their children,
+        and will return.
+010:010 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt,
+        and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into
+        the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won't be room
+        enough for them.
+010:011 He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike
+        the waves in the sea, and 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.
+010:012 I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up
+        and down in his name," says Yahweh.
+011:001 Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
+011:002 Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately
+        ones are destroyed.  Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong
+        forest has come down.
+011:003 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!  For their glory
+        is destroyed:  a voice of the roaring of young lions!
+        For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
+011:004 Thus says Yahweh my God:  "Feed the flock of slaughter.
+011:005 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished.
+        Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;'
+        and their own shepherds don't pity them.
+011:006 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,"
+        says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone
+        into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king.
+        They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will
+        not deliver them."
+011:007 So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed
+        of the flock.  I took for myself two staffs.
+        The one I called "Favor," and the other I called "Union,"
+        and I fed the flock.
+011:008 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was
+        weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
+011:009 Then I said, "I will not feed you.  That which dies, let it die;
+        and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off;
+        and let those who are left eat each other's flesh."
+011:010 I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break
+        my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
+011:011 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock
+        that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.
+011:012 I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages;
+        and if not, keep them."  So they weighed for my wages thirty
+        pieces of silver.
+011:013 Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price
+        that I was valued at by them!"  I took the thirty pieces of silver,
+        and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.
+011:014 Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break
+        the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
+011:015 Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment
+        of a foolish shepherd.
+011:016 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land,
+        who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek
+        those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken,
+        nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh
+        of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
+011:017 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock!
+        The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye.
+        His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will
+        be totally blinded!"
+012:001 An oracle.  The word of Yahweh concerning Israel.
+        Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation
+        of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
+012:002 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all
+        the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in
+        the siege against Jerusalem.
+012:003 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome
+        stone for all the peoples.  All who burden themselves with it
+        will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth
+        will be gathered together against it.
+012:004 In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse
+        with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open
+        my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse
+        of the peoples with blindness.
+012:005 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants
+        of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.'
+012:006 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan
+        of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves;
+        and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right
+        hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell
+        in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
+012:007 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory
+        of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants
+        of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
+012:008 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
+        He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David,
+        and the house of David will be like God, like the angel
+        of Yahweh before them.
+012:009 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all
+        the nations that come against Jerusalem.
+012:010 I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants
+        of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will
+        look to me{After "me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav"
+        (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as
+        a word, but as a grammatical marker.} whom they have pierced;
+        and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son,
+        and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
+012:011 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem,
+        like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
+012:012 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house
+        of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house
+        of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
+012:013 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;
+        the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
+012:014 all the families who remain, every family apart,
+        and their wives apart.
+013:001 "In that day there will be a spring opened to the house
+        of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin
+        and for uncleanness.
+013:002 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies,
+        that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land,
+        and they will be remembered no more.  I will also cause
+        the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
+013:003 It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies,
+        then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him,
+        'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of Yahweh;'
+        and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him
+        when he prophesies.
+013:004 It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be
+        ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they
+        wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
+013:005 but he will say, 'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground;
+        for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'
+013:006 One will say to him, 'What are these wounds between your arms?'
+        Then he will answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house
+        of my friends.'
+013:007 "Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is
+        close to me," says Yahweh of Armies.  "Strike the shepherd,
+        and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand
+        against the little ones.
+013:008 It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts
+        in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it.
+013:009 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them
+        as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested.
+        They will call on my name, and I will hear them.  I will say,
+        'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
+014:001 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided
+        in your midst.
+014:002 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the
+        city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished.
+        Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest
+        of the people will not be cut off from the city.
+014:003 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations,
+        as when he fought in the day of battle.
+014:004 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is
+        before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be
+        split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley.
+        Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half
+        of it toward the south.
+014:005 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley
+        of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee,
+        just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days
+        of Uzziah king of Judah.  Yahweh my God will come, and all
+        the holy ones with you.
+014:006 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light,
+        cold, or frost.
+014:007 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day,
+        and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time
+        there will be light.
+014:008 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go
+        out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea,
+        and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter
+        will it be.
+014:009 Yahweh will be King over all the earth.  In that day Yahweh
+        will be one, and his name one.
+014:010 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba
+        to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up,
+        and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place
+        of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower
+        of Hananel to the king's winepresses.
+014:011 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse;
+        but Jerusalem will dwell safely.
+014:012 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike
+        all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem:
+        their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet,
+        and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their
+        tongue will consume away in their mouth.
+014:013 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh
+        will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand
+        of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand
+        of his neighbor.
+014:014 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all
+        the surrounding nations will be gathered together:
+        gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
+014:015 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel,
+        and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in
+        those camps, as that plague.
+014:016 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that
+        came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship
+        the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.
+014:017 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't
+        go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies,
+        on them there will be no rain.
+014:018 If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come,
+        neither will it rain on them.  This will be the plague
+        with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up
+        to keep the feast of tents.
+014:019 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all
+        the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.
+014:020 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses,
+        "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be
+        like the bowls before the altar.
+014:021 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh
+        of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take
+        of them, and cook in them.  In that day there will no longer
+        be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
+
+
+
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