CHAPTER 11
Zechariah 11:1
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Zechariah 11:2
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled:
howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
Zechariah 11:3
3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is
spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is
spoiled.
Zechariah 11:4
4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
Zechariah 11:5
5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that
sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds
pity them not.
Zechariah 11:6
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but,
lo, I will deliver the men every one 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.
Zechariah 11:7
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And
I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called
Bands; and I fed the flock.
Zechariah 11:8
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and
their soul also abhorred me.
Zechariah 11:9
9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that
that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the
flesh of another.
Zechariah 11:10
10 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break
my covenant which I had made with all the people.
Zechariah 11:11
11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited
upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
Zechariah 11:12
12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not,
forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Zechariah 11:13
13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I
was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them
to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Zechariah 11:14
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the
brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Zechariah 11:15
15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a
foolish shepherd.
Zechariah 11:16
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit
those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that
is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of
the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
Zechariah 11:17
17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon
his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his
right eye shall be utterly darkened.
CHAPTER 12
Zechariah 12:1
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which
stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and
formeth the spirit of man within him.
Zechariah 12:2
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round
about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against
Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:3
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the
people of the earth be gathered together against it.
Zechariah 12:4
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment,
and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of
Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
Zechariah 12:5
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of
Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
Zechariah 12:6
6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire
among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour
all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and
Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:7
7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the
house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify
themselves against Judah.
Zechariah 12:8
8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he
that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of
David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Zechariah 12:9
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 12:10
10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look
upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that
is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zechariah 12:11
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning
of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Zechariah 12:12
12 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 Nathan apart,
and their wives apart;
Zechariah 12:13
13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family
of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
Zechariah 12:14
14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
CHAPTER 13
Zechariah 13:1
1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
Zechariah 13:2
2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith 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.
Zechariah 13:3
3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his
father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not
live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his
mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Zechariah 13:4
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed
every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a
rough garment to deceive:
Zechariah 13:5
5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me
to keep cattle from my youth.
Zechariah 13:6
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he
shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Zechariah 13:7
7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my
fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be
scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Zechariah 13:8
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts
therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Zechariah 13:9
9 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.
CHAPTER 14
Zechariah 14:1
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the
midst of thee.
Zechariah 14:2
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of
the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people
shall not be cut off from the city.
Zechariah 14:3
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he
fought in the day of battle.
Zechariah 14:4
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the
midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a
very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the
north, and half of it toward the south.
Zechariah 14:5
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the
mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from
before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD
my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
Zechariah 14:6
6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear,
nor dark:
Zechariah 14:7
7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor
night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Zechariah 14:8
8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the
hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Zechariah 14:9
9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be
one LORD, and his name one.
Zechariah 14:10
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from
Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate,
and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.
Zechariah 14:11
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction;
but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Zechariah 14:12
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people
that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while
they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their
holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Zechariah 14:13
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD
shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.
Zechariah 14:14
14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the
heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and
apparel, in great abundance.
Zechariah 14:15
15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and
of the *****, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this
plague.
Zechariah 14:16
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship
the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:17
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the
earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them
shall be no rain.
Zechariah 14:18
18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain;
there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that
come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:19
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations
that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:20
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO
THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before
the altar.
Zechariah 14:21
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD
of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and
seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the
house of the LORD of hosts.
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