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text: Zechariah
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  The Koren Jerusalem Bible
  
  
  Zechariah
  
  
  
  
  
  In the eighth month, in the second year of Daryavesh, the word of the Lord came to Zekharya, the son of Berekhya, the son of ῾Iddo the prophet, saying,
  The Lord has been much displeased with your fathers.
  Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord of hosts; Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the 
  					Lord of hosts.
  Be not like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts; Turn now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, or hearken to 
  					me, says the Lord.
  Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
  But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? so that they repented and said, As the Lord of hosts intended to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has 
  					he dealt with us.
  On the twenty fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shevat, in the second year of Daryavesh, the word of the Lord came to Zekharya, the son of Berekhya, the son of ῾Iddo the prophet,
  saying, I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle bushes that were in the glen; and behind him were there red horses, sorrel, and white.
  Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to me, I will show thee what these are.
  And the man that stood among the myrtle bushes answered and said, These are they whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro in the earth.
  And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle bushes, and said, We have walked to and fro in the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest.
  Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have mercy on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehuda, against which Thou hast had indignation these seventy years?
  And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words, words of comfort.
  So the angel that spoke with me said to me, Proclaim, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts; I am zealous for Yerushalayim and for Żiyyon with a great zeal.
  And I am very much displeased with the nations that are at ease: for I was a little angry, but they helped forward the affliction.
  Therefore thus says the Lord; I have returned to Yerushalayim with mercies: my house shall be rebuilt in it, says the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Yerushalayim.
  Proclaim further, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts; My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; and the Lord shall yet comfort Żiyyon, and shall yet choose Yerushalayim.
  
  
  
  Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
  And I said to the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Yehuda, Yisra᾽el, and Yerushalayim.
  And the Lord showed me four craftsmen.
  Then said I, What are they coming to do? And he spoke, saying, Those were the horns which scattered Yehuda, so that no man could lift up his head: but these are come to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn over the land of Yehuda to scatter it.
  I lifted up my eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.
  Then I said, Where dost thou go? And he said to me, To measure Yerushalayim, to see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it.
  And, behold, the angel that talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,
  and he said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Yerushalayim shall be inhabited like unwalled towns because of the multitude of men and cattle that shall be in it:
  for I, says the Lord, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
  Ho, ho, flee then from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, says the Lord.
  Escape, O Żiyyon, that dwellest with the daughter of Bavel.
  For thus says the Lord of hosts – (because of his honour he sent me to the nations which spoiled you: for 
  					he that touches you touches the apple of his eye) –
  For behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those who served them. And you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.
  Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Żiyyon: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, says the Lord.
  And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord on that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the 
  					Lord of hosts has sent me to thee.
  And the Lord shall inherit Yehuda as his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Yerushalayim again.
  Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord: for he has roused himself out of his holy habitation.
  
  
  
  And he showed me Yehoshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and the adversary standing at his right hand to thwart him.
  And the Lord said to the adversary, The Lord rebukes thee, O adversary; even the Lord who has chosen Yerushalayim rebukes thee: for is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?
  Now Yehoshua was clothed in filthy garments, and he stood before the angel.
  And he answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, Take off the filthy garments from him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused thy iniquity to pass from thee; and I clothe thee in festive garments.
  Then I said, Let them put a pure mitre on his head. So they set the pure mitre on his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.
  And the angel of the Lord forewarned Yehoshua, saying,
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, and thou wilt also judge 
  					my house, and wilt also guard my courts, then I will give thee access among these who stand by.
  Hear now, O Yehoshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows who sit before thee: for they are men of good omen: for, behold, I will bring my servant Żemaĥ.
  For behold the stone that I have laid before Yehoshua; upon one stone are seven facets: behold, I will engrave its inscription, says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
  On that day, says the Lord of hosts, everyone of you shall invite his neighbour to come under his vine and under his fig tree.
  
  
  
  And the angel that talked with me came back, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
  And he said to me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and seven lamps to it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which were upon the top of it:
  and there are two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side of it.
  So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
  Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, Knowst thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
  Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbavel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
  Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbavel become a plain! and he shall produce the headstone of it, amid shoutings of, Grace, grace to it.
  Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  The hands of Zerubbavel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
  For who has despised the day of small things? for those seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbavel; the eyes of the Lord, they rove to and fro through the whole earth.
  Then I answered, and said to him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side of it?
  And I answered again, and said to him, What are these two olive branches which are beside the two golden spouts that empty the golden oil out of themselves?
  And he answered me and said, Knowst thou not what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
  Then he said, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.
  
  
  
  Then I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a flying scroll.
  And he said to me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying scroll; the length of it is twenty cubits, and the breadth of it is ten cubits.
  Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth: for every thief has been hitherto quit of this which is on it, and every false swearer has been quit of this which is on it.
  I have now produced it, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber of it and the stones of it.
  Then the angel that talked with me went out, and said to me, Lift up now thy eyes, and see what is this that goes out.
  And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an efa measure going out. And he said, This is their appearance throughout the earth.
  And behold, the leaden cover was lifted; and there was a woman sitting in the midst of the efa.
  And he said, This is Wickedness. And he cast her into the midst of the efa measure; and he cast the lead cover over the mouth of it.
  Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the efa measure between the earth and the sky.
  Then I said to the angel that talked with me, Where are they taking the efa?
  And he said to me, To build with it a house in the land of Shin῾ar: and when it is prepared, they will set it down there upon its base.
  
  
  
  And I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out four chariots from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
  In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot, black horses;
  and in the third chariot, white horses; and in the fourth chariot, grizzled, bay horses.
  Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, What are these, my lord? And the angel answered and said to me.
  These are the four winds of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
  That in which are the black horses goes out into the north country; and the white go after them; and the grizzled go towards the south country.
  And the bay horses went out, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
  Then he cried upon me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these that go towards the north country have relieved my spirit in the north country.
  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  Take from the Exiles, from Helday, from Toviyya, and from Yeda῾ya, and come thou on that same day and go into the house of Yoshiyya the son of Żefanya who have come from Bavel;
  and take from them silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Yehoshua the son of Yehożadaq, the high priest;
  and speak to him, saying, Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold a man whose name is Żemaĥ, and who shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of the Lord:
  he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and there shall be a priest before his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
  But the crowns shall remain for a memorial to Helem, and to Toviyya, and to Yeda῾ya, and to Ĥen the son of Żefanya, in the temple of the Lord.
  And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and you shall know that the Lord of Hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the 
  					Lord your God.
  
  
  
  And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Daryavesh, that the word of the Lord came to Zekharya on the fourth day of the ninth month, in Kislev;
  when Bet-el, Shar᾽eżer, and Regem-melekh, and his men had sent to entreat the favour of the Lord,
  and to speak to the priests who were in the house of the Lord of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
  Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
  Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you really fasted?
  And when you did eat, and when you did drink, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
  Should you not hear the words which the Lord has proclaimed by the former prophets, when Yerushalayim was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities round about her, when the Negev and the coastal plain were inhabited?
  And the word of the Lord came to Zekharya, saying,
  Thus spoke the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show loyal love and mercy every man to his brother:
  and do not oppress the widow, or the fatherless, the stranger, or the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
  But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear:
  and they made their hearts an adamant stone, lest they should hear the Tora, and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore a great anger came from the 
  					Lord of hosts.
  And so, when he cried, and they would not hear, the Lord of hosts said: So shall they cry, and I will not hear;
  but I will scatter them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they know not; and the land shall be desolate after them, so that no man shall pass by or return. Thus they made the pleasant land a desolation.
  
  
  
  And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; I was zealous for Żiyyon with great zeal, and I was zealous for her with a great fury.
  Thus says the Lord; I have returned to Żiyyon, and will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim: and Yerushalayim shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of the 
  					Lord of hosts, The holy mountain.
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; Old men and old women shall yet again dwell in the streets of Yerushalayim, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
  And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, it will also be marvellous in my eyes, says the 
  					Lord of hosts.
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
  and I will bring them in, and they will dwell in the midst of Yerushalayim: and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, you that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, who spoke on the day that the foundation of the house of the 
  					Lord of hosts was laid, saying that the temple might be built.
  For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; nor was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the adversary: for I set all men everyone against his neighbour.
  But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the Lord of hosts.
  For there shall be the seed of peace; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall yield its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
  And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Yehuda, and house of Yisra᾽el; so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
  For thus says the Lord of hosts; As I intended to do you mischief, when your fathers provoked me to anger, says the Lord of hosts, and I did not relent:
  so have I turned about, and do purpose in these days to do good to Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehuda: fear not.
  These are the things that you shall do; Speak every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
  and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.
  And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,
  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 become times of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts to the house of Yehuda; therefore love the truth and peace.
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
  and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favour of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also.
  And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Yerushalayim, and to pray before the Lord.
  Thus says the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold, and shall seize the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that 
  					God is with you.
  
  
  
  The burden of the word of the Lord; in the land of Ĥadrakh and Dammeseq shall his resting place be: for the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Yisra᾽el, shall be towards the 
  					Lord:
  and in Ĥamat also which borders thereby; Żor and Żidon, though it be very wise.
  And Żor did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
  Behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions, and he will smite her power into the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.
  Ashqelon shall see it, and fear; ῾Azza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and ῾Eqron shall see that her expectation has been confounded; and the king shall perish from ῾Azza, and Ashqelon shall not be inhabited.
  And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Pelishtim.
  And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his detestable things from between his teeth: and he too, shall remain for our God, and he shall be like a clan in Yehuda, and ῾Eqron like the Yevusite.
  And I will encamp about my house against any army, against any that pass by, and return: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with 
  					my eyes.
  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Żiyyon; shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim: behold, thy king comes to thee: he is just, and victorious; humble, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.
  And I will cut off the chariot from Efrayim, and the horse from Yerushalayim, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
  As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit in which there was no water.
  Return to the stronghold you prisoners of hope: even to day will I restore to thee a double promise.
  For I have bent Yehuda for me, I have filled the bow with Efrayim, and raised up my sons, O Żiyyon, against thy sons, O Yavan, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
  And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth like the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the shofar, and shall move in the stormwinds of the south.
  The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and be boisterous as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and like the corners of the altar.
  And the Lord their God shall save them on that day as the flock of his people; for they shall be like the stones of a crown gloaming over 
  					his land.
  For how goodly they are, and how beautiful! corn shall make young men flourish; and new wine, the virgins.
  
  
  
  Ask rain of the Lord in the time of the latter rain, of the Lord who makes lightnings; and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.
  For the terafim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreams tell falsehood; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were afflicted, because there was no shepherd.
  My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the goats: for the Lord of hosts has remembered his flock, the house of Yehuda, and makes them like the magnificent steed in the battle.
  Out of him shall come forth the cornerstone, out of him the stake, out of him the battle bow, out of him every ruler together.
  And they shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
  And I will strengthen the house of Yehuda, and I will save the house of Yosef, and I will bring them back again for I have had mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the 
  					Lord their God, and will hear them.
  And they of Efrayim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: and their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.
  I will whistle to them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have before increased.
  And I will sow them among the peoples: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.
  And I will bring them back out of the land of Miżrayim, and gather them out of Ashshur, and I will bring them into the land of Gil῾ad and Levanon; so that there will be no room for them.
  And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the River shall dry up: and the pride of Ashshur shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Miżrayim shall depart away.
  And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, says the Lord.
  
  
  
  Open thy doors, O Levanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
  Wail, O cypress tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: wail, O you oaks of Bashan; for the thick forest is come down.
  There is a voice of the wailing of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the wild country of the Yarden is plundered.
  Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter;
  whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed is the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
  For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
  So I fed the flock of slaughter, indeed the poorest of the flock. And I took for myself two rods; the one I called Grace, and the other I called Severity; and I fed the flock.
  Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and I became impatient with them, and their soul also abhorred me.
  Then I said, I will not be your shepherd: that which dies let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat the flesh of one another.
  And I took my rod, Grace, and snapped it, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
  And it was broken on that day: and so the poorest of the flock who paid heed to me knew that it was the word of the Lord.
  And I said to them, If you think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.
  And the Lord said to me, Cast it into the treasury: the goodly price that I was priced at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the treasury in the house of the 
  					Lord.
  Then I snapped my other staff, Severity, that I might break the brotherhood between Yehuda and Yisra᾽el.
  And the Lord said to me, Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
  For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not take care of those who are cut off, nor seek the young one, nor heal the broken, nor feed that which stands still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and break their hoofs in pieces.
  Woe to my worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be dried up, and his right eye shall be darkened.
  
  
  
  The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Yisra᾽el. The saying of the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him;
  Behold, I will make Yerushalayim a cup of staggering to all the peoples round about, and it shall also be for Yehuda during the siege against Yerushalayim.
  And on that day I will make Yerushalayim a burdensome stone for all the peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall be grievously hurt: and all the peoples of the earth shall be gathered together against it.
  On that day, says the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open my eyes upon the house of Yehuda, and will smite every horse of the nations with blindness.
  And the governors of Yehuda shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Yerushalayim are my strength through the Lord of hosts their 
  					God.
  On that day I will make the chiefs of Yehuda like a hearth of fire among trees, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Yerushalayim shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Yerushalayim.
  And the Lord shall save the tents of Yehuda first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim do not magnify themselves against Yehuda.
  On that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Yerushalayim; and he that stumbles among them at that day shall be like David; and the house of David shall be like a divine being, like the angel of the 
  					Lord before them.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Yerushalayim.
  But I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplication: and they shall look towards me, regarding those whom the nations have thrust through. And they shall mourn for him (that is slain) as one mourns for an only son, and shall be in bitterness over him, as one that is in bitterness for a firstborn.
  On that day shall there be a great mourning in Yerushalayim, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
  And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Natan apart, and their wives apart;
  the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shim῾i apart, and their wives apart;
  all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
  
  
  
  On that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim for cleansing and for sprinkling.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
  And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother who begot him shall say to him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he has prophesied; and they shall not put on the hairy mantle to deceive:
  but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
  And one shall say to him, What are these wounds between thy hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
  Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is associated with me, says the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn 
  					my hand against the little ones.
  And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts in it shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left in it.
  And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is 
  					my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
  
  
  
  Behold, the day of the Lord comes, when thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
  For I will gather all the nations against Yerushalayim to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go into exile, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
  Then shall the Lord go out, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
  And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east, and the mount of Olives shall be split along the middle of it by a very great valley from east to west; and half of the mountain shall be removed towards the north, and half of it, towards the south.
  And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Ażel: and you shall flee, just as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of ῾Uzziyya king of Yehuda: and the 
  					Lord my God shall come, and all the holy ones with thee.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that there shall neither be bright light nor thick darkness;
  but it shall be one particular day which shall be known as the Lord’s, neither day, nor night: but it shall come to pass that at evening time, there will be light.
  And on that day, living waters shall go out from Yerushalayim; half of them towards the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
  And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: on that day the Lord shall be one, and his name One.
  All the land shall be changed like the ῾Arava from Geva to Rimmon south of Yerushalayim; whilst she shall be lifted up, and shall remain in her place, from the gate of Binyamin to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Ĥanan᾽el to the king’s winepresses.
  And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Yerushalayim shall dwell secure.
  And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the peoples that have fought against Yerushalayim; their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
  And it shall come to pass on that day, that a great panic 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.
  And Yehuda also shall fight at Yerushalayim; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.
  And such 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 in these camps, as this plague.
  And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations who came against Yerushalayim, shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of booths.
  And whoever does not come up of all the families of the earth to Yerushalayim to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, upon them shall be no rain.
  And if the family of Miżrayim does not go up, and does not come, then they shall have no overflow. This shall be the plague, with which the Lord will smite the nations that shall not come up to keep the feast of booths.
  This shall be the punishment of Miżrayim, and the punishment of all nations that do not come up to keep the feast of booths.
  On that day shall there be (inscribed) upon the bells of the horses, Holiness to the Lord; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the basins before the altar.
  And every pot in Yerushalayim and in Yehuda shall be sacred to the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and cook in them: and on that day there shall be no more merchants in the house of the 
  					Lord of hosts.