1In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying, 2 “The Lord was angry concerning your ancestors with a great anger. 3 So you will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Turn to me,” says the Lord of hosts. “And I will turn to you,” says the Lord of hosts. 4 “So do not become like your ancestors, whom the former prophets summoned, saying, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Turn back from your evil ways and from your evil pursuits.” ’ But they did not listen, and they did not give heed to obey me,” says the Lord. 5 “Where are your ancestors? And will the prophets live for eternity? 6 But receive my words and my statutes, as many as I command with my spirit to my servants, the prophets, who took hold of your ancestors. And they replied and said, ‘Just as the Lord Almighty set himself against them to do to us according to our ways and according to our pursuits, thus he did to us.’ ” ’ ” A Vision of a Rider upon a Red Horse 7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, saying, 8 “I have seen in the night, and behold, a man mounted upon a red horse. And this one stood between the hills of shade, and behind him were red and dapple gray and multicolored and white horses. 9 And I said, ‘What are these, Lord?’ And the angel, the one speaking with me, said to me, ‘I will show you what these things are.’ 10 And the man, the one standing between the hills, answered and said to me, ‘These are those whom the Lord sent forth to travel around the land.’ 11 And they answered the angel of the Lord, the one standing between the hills, and they said, ‘We have traveled around all the land, and behold, all the land has been settled and is at rest.’ 12 And the angel of the Lord answered and said, ‘O Lord Almighty, until when will you show no mercy to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, which you have neglected these seventy years?’ 13 And the Lord Almighty answered the angel, the one speaking with me, beautiful words and comforting words. 14 And the angel, the one speaking with me, said to me, ‘Cry out, saying, “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I have been jealous of Jerusalem and Zion with a great jealousy. 15 And with a great anger I am angry against the nations, the ones who join in attacking. Because, on the one hand, I was angry a little, but they joined in attacking for evil. 16 On account of this,’ says the Lord, ‘I will look upon Jerusalem with compassion, and my house will be rebuilt in it,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And a measurement will still be stretched out upon Jerusalem.’ ” ’ 17 And the angel, the one speaking with me, said to me, ‘Cry out, saying, “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Yet cities will be spread with good, and the Lord will still show mercy for Zion and will choose Jerusalem.’ ” ’ ” A Vision of Four Horns and Four Carpenters 18 aAnd I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns! 19 And I said to the angel, the one speaking with me, “What are these things, Lord?” And he said to me, “These are the horns, the ones that have scattered Judah and Israel and Jerusalem.” 20 And the Lord showed me four carpenters.
2And I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, “These are the horns, the ones that scattered Judah and shattered Israel, and none of them lifted up its head. And these were going out to sharpen them, the four horns, into their hands, the nations who raised up their horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it abroad.” A Vision of a Man with a Geometrical Cord 2 And I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a man, and in his hand was a geometrical cord. 2 And I said to him, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how long is its width and how long the length.” 3 And behold, the angel, the one speaking with me, stood, and another angel went out for a meeting with him. 4 And he said to him, saying, “Run and speak to that young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be fully settled from a multitude of humans and livestock in the middle of it. 5 “And I will become for it,” says the Lord, “a wall of fire surrounding it, and I will be the glory in the middle of it.” ’ ” 6 “Flee from the land of the north,” says the Lord, “because from the four winds of heaven I will gather you together,” says the Lord. 7 “Escape into Zion, the ones who dwell with daughter Babylon.”[1] 8 Because this is what the Lord Almighty says: “From behind the glory he sent me against the nations, the ones plundering you, because the ones touching you are as ones touching the pupil of my eye. 9 Behold, I lay my hand upon them, and they will be spoils for the ones serving them. And you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me. 10 Delight, and cheer, O daughter of Zion, because behold, I am coming, and I will dwell in the middle of you,” says the Lord. 11 “And many nations will flee tob the Lord in that day, and they will be to him a people, and they will dwell in the middle of you, and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. 12 And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will still choose Jerusalem. 13 Let all flesh be afraid of the face of the Lord, for he will rise up from his holy clouds.”
3And the Lord showed me the great priest Joshua standing before the presence of the angel of the Lord, and the adversary stood to his right to resist him. 2 And the Lord said to the adversary, “The Lord rebuke you, O adversary! And the Lord, the one who chose Jerusalem, rebuke you! Behold, is this not as a firebrand removed from the fire?” 3 And Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and he stood before the face of the angel. 4 And he answered and said to the ones standing before his face, saying, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And he said to him, “Behold I have removed your lawlessness. And clothe him with a robe 5 and put a clean turban on his head.” And they placed a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood nearby. 6 And the angel of the Lord warned Joshua, saying, 7 “This says the Lord Almighty: ‘You shall walk in my ways and observe my commands; then you will judge my house. And if you keep watch over my court, then I will give to you the ones returning in the middle of these who are established. 8 Hear then, Joshua, the great priest, you and the ones close to you, the ones seated before your face, since they are wonder-observing men. Because behold, I bring out my servant, the Rising Sun.[2] 9 Because the stone that I gave before the face of Joshua, upon the one stone there are seven eyes. Behold, I am digging a pit,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will touch every injustice of that land in one day. 10 In that day,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘you will call together each of his neighbors under the vine and under the fig tree.’ ” A Vision of a Gold Lampstand
4And the angel, the one speaking with me, turned and lifted me up in what manner when a person is awakened out of his sleep. 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I have looked, and behold, an entirely golden lampstand, and the bowl over it, and seven lamps over it, and seven vessels for the lamps, for the ones over it, 3 and two olive trees in front of it, one to the right of its bowl and one to its left.” 4 And I asked and said to the angel, the one speaking with me, saying, “What are these things, O Lord?” 5 And the angel, the one speaking with me, answered and spoke to me, saying, “Do you not know what these things are?” And I said, “No, Lord.” 6 And he answered and said to me, saying, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not with great power, nor with strength, but with my spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. 7 ‘Who are you, O great mountain, to erect yourself before the face of Zerubbabel. And I will carry out the stone of the inheritance, with equality of grace, as the grace of it.’ ” 8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel established this house, and his hands will finish it, and you will know that the Lord Almighty sent me to you. 10 For who disdains small days? And they will rejoice and see the stone made of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven eyes are the ones looking attentively on all the earth.” 11 And I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees, the ones to the right of the lampstand and to the left?” 12 And I asked a second time and said to him, “What are the two branches of the olive trees, the ones in the hands of the two golden vessels, the ones that pour through the golden vessel?” 13 And he said to me, “Do you not know what these things are?” And I said, “No, Lord.” 14 And he said, “These are the two sons of olive oil who stand near the Lord of all the earth.” A Vision of a Flying Sickle
5And I turned and lifted up my eyes and saw and behold, a flying sickle.[3] 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying sickle, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” 3 And he said to me, “This is the curse, the one going out upon the face of all the land, because every thief will be punished until death from this, and everyone who swears falsely will be punished from this. 4 And I will carry it out,” says the Lord Almighty, “and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing in my name concerning lies, and it will settle in the middle of his house and finish it off, both its wood and its stones.” A Vision of a Woman in a Measurement 5 And the angel, the one speaking with me, went out and said to me, “Look up with your eyes and see what this is that is going out.” 6 And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the measurement, the one going out.” And he said, “This is their injustice in all the earth.” 7 And behold, a talent of lead was being lifted up, and behold, one woman sat in the middle of the measurement. 8 And he said, “This is lawlessness.” And he threw it in the middle of the measurement, and he threw the stone of lead into its mouth. 9 And I lifted up my eyes and saw and behold, two women going out. And wind was in their wings, and these had wings of hoopoe birds, and they took up the measurement between the earth and the heavens. 10 And I said to the angel, the one speaking with me, “Where are these carrying the measurement?” 11 And he said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Babylon, and to prepare so that they can place it there upon its foundation.” A Vision of Four Chariots
6And I turned and lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots going out from in the middle of two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of copper. 2 In the first chariot the horses were red, and in the second chariot the horses were black, 3 and in the third chariot the horses were white, and in the fourth chariot the horses were spotted dapple gray. 4 And I answered and said to the angel, the one speaking with me, “What are these things, O Lord?” 5 And the angel, the one speaking with me, answered and said, “These are the four winds of heaven going out to be near the Lord of all the earth, 6 in which the black horses were going out upon the land of the north, and the white ones went behind them, and the spotted ones went upon the land of the south. 7 And the dapple-gray ones went and looked attentively to go to travel around the land.” And he said, “Go, and travel around the land.” And they traveled around the land. 8 And they cried out and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, the ones going out upon the north land have put my wrath to rest in the north land.” The Crowning of Joshua 9 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 10 “Take the things out of captivity, from the rulers and from its useful ones and from the ones who know it, and you will enter in that day into the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, the one who has come out of Babylon. 11 And you will take silver and gold, and you will make crowns and place them upon the head of the great priest Joshua, the son of Jehozadak. 12 And you will say to him, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Behold, a man; Anatolea is his name, and from beneath him he will rise up and build the house of the Lord. 13 And he will receive virtue, and he will sit and rule upon his throne, and the priest will be out of his right, and there will be a peaceful plan between both. 14 The crown will be for the ones remaining and its useful ones and for the ones acknowledging it. And it will be for creditb for the son of Zephaniah and for a song of praise in the house of the Lord. 15 And the ones far away from them will come and build in the house of the Lord, and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you. And it will exist if, while listening, you hear the voice of the Lord, your God.” ’ ” The Question concerning Fasting for Jerusalem
7And it happened 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 And the king and his men sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to Bethel to propitiate the Lord, 3 saying to the priests who are in the house of the Lord Almighty and to the prophets, “It has come here in the fifth month, the holy object, as he did already in plenty of years.” 4 And the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, 5 “Speak to all the people of the earth and the priests, saying, ‘If you fast or mourn in the fifth or in the seventh months— behold, for seventy years—you did not fast a fast for me, did you? 6 And if you eat or drink, are you not eating and drinking for yourselves? 7 Are not these the words that the Lord spoke through the hands of the previous prophets, when Jerusalem was settled and prospering, and its surrounding cities and the mountainous area and the plain were settled?’ ” 8 And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, 9 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘You will judge with righteous judgments, and you will do mercy and compassion, each to his brother. 10 And do not oppress the widow and the orphan and the immigrant and the poor. And let not each one bear an evil grudge against his brother in your hearts. 11 And they refused to pay attention, and they gave their deranged back, and they weighed down their ears so as to not listen; 12 and they appointed their heart as resistant so as to not listen to my instruction and the words that the Lord Almighty sent through his Spirit, through the hand of the previous prophets, and great anger came from the Lord Almighty. 13 And it will be, in what manner he said, and they did not listen. So thus, they have cried out, but I will not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty. 14 ‘And I will cast them out into every nation that they did not know, and the land will be destroyed behind them from their traveling through and from their turning it upside down. And they have appointed choice land for destruction.’ ” A Message of Restoration and Rejoicing
8And the word of the Lord Almighty came, saying, 2 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I was jealous of Jerusalem and Zion with a great jealousy, and I have envied her with wrath.’ 3 This is what the Lord says: ‘I will return upon Zion and dwell in the middle of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem will be called the genuine city, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called a holy mountain.’ 4 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Male elders and female elders will yet sit in the wide streets of Jerusalem, each having his staff in his hand, having lived for many days. 5 And the wide streets of the city will be full of young boys and young girls playing in its wide streets.’ 6 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Whether it seems impossible before the remnant of this people in those days, should it seem impossible even to me?’ says the Lord Almighty. 7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Behold, I am saving my people from the land of the east and from the land of the west, 8 and I will lead them and settle them in the middle of Jerusalem, and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God, in truth and in righteousness.’ 9 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Let your hands be strengthened, you who obeyed in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, from the day that the house of the Lord Almighty was established and from the day in which the temple was built. 10 Because before those days, the wages of the people did not exist for profit, and the wages of the livestock were not present, and for the one going out and for the one going in peace from oppression did not exist; so I sent away all the people, each against his neighbor. 11 And now, I will not do to the remnant of this people according to the previous days,’ says the Lord Almighty. 12 ‘Rather, I will show peace; the vine will give its fruit, and the land will give its produce, and the sky will give its dew, and I will give an inheritance to the remnant of this my people all these things. 13 And it will be, the way you were as a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, thus I will deliver you, and you will be as a blessing. Be bold, and be strong in your hands!’ 14 Because this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘The way I have intended to mistreat you, when your ancestors provoked me to anger,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I did not reconsider, 15 thus I have set in order and intend in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Be courageous! 16 These are the words that you should do: Speak truth, each to his neighbor; judge truth and make peaceful judgments in your gates; 17 and let each not consider the evil of his neighbor in your hearts; and do not love a false oath, since I have hated all these things,’ says the Lord Almighty.” 18 And the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 19 “The Lord Almighty says, ‘The fourth fast and the fifth fast and the seventh fast and the tenth fast will be for the house of Judah for joy and merriment, and for a good feast, so you will rejoice and love truth and peace.’ 20 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Yet many people will come, even ones who dwell in many cities. 21 And those who dwell in five cities shall come together into one city, saying, “Let us go to pray before the face of the Lord and to seek out the face of the Lord Almighty; and I myself will go.” 22 And many people and many nations will come to seek out the face of the Lord Almighty in Jerusalem and to propitiate the face the Lord.’ 23 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In those days if ten men from every tongue of the nations should seize, then let them seize the fringe of the garment of a Judean man, saying, “We will go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.” ’ ” The Judgment of Israel’s Enemies
9The oracle of the word of the Lord. In the land of Hadrach and Damascus is his sacrifice, because the Lord will oversee the people and every tribe of Israel. 2 And in Hamath among its borders, Tyre and Sidon, because they have very much understanding. 3 And Tyre built a stronghold for itself and stored up silver as dust, and gold as the mud of the road. 4 And on account of this the Lord will inherit them, and he will strike its power into the sea, and this one will be consumed in fire. 5 Ashkelon will see and fear, and even Gaza will feel very much pain, and Ekron, because it will be ashamed concerning its transgressions; and the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be settled. 6 And foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will take down the pride of foreigners. 7 And I will lift up their blood out of their mouth, and their abominations out of the middle of their teeth. But even these will be spared for our God, and they will be as a captain in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites. 8 And I will set under my house an encampment so that no one may pass across, not even to turn back; and it should surely not attack against them, no longer driving them away, because now I have seen with my eyes. 9 Rejoice very much, O daughter of Zion; announce, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king comes to you, righteous and able to keep alive; he is humble and mounted upon a mule, even a young foal of an ass.[4] 10 And he will utterly destroy chariots from Ephraim, and a horse out of Jerusalem, and a warlike bow will be utterly destroyed, even a number of them; and there will be peace from the nations, and he will rule waters to seas and rivers, the passageway of the land. 11 And you, in the blood of your covenant, sent away your prisoners from a pit that has no water. 12 Drop down in the strongholds, O prisoners of the assembly, and in place of one day of your exile I will repay you double. 13 Because I stretched you, O Judah, for myself like a bow; I filled Ephraim; and I shall awaken your children, O Zion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will touch you like a sword of a fighter. 14 And the Lord will be upon them, and he will come out like a lightning bolt, and the Lord Almighty will sound with a war trumpet, and he will come with a surge of his anger.[5] 15 The Lord Almighty will protect them, and they will consume them, and they will overwhelm them with sling stones, and they will drink them like wine, and they will fill up a shallow bowl like an altar. 16 And the Lord, their God, will save them in that day, his people like sheep, since like holy stones they will roll down upon his land. 17 Because if anything is good, it is from him; and if anything is beautiful, it is him; grain for young men and a fragrant wine for virgins. The Lord Providentially Cares for His People
10Ask rain from the Lord, according to the early season and late in the season. The Lord made a sign, and he will give winter rain to them, to each herb in the field. 2 Because the ones who speak spoke troubles, and the seers have false visions, and they were speaking false dreams; they proposed pointless ideas through this. They will be dried up like sheep, and they were afflicted, because there was no healing. 3 “My wrath is provoked against the shepherds, and I will visit upon the lambs; and the Lord God Almighty will examine his flock, the house of Judah, and he will appoint them as his beautiful horse in battle. 4 And from him he looked out attentively, and from him he appointed, and from him was a bow in wrath; from him everyone who drives out will go out with it. 5 And they will be like warriors walking on mud in the roads in battle, and they will set up an army, because the Lord is with them, and the horse riders will be dishonored. 6 And I will prevail over the house of Judah, and I will preserve the house of Joseph, and I will establish them, because I have loved them; and they will be as though I had not turned them back, because I am the Lord, their God, and I will hear them. 7 And they will be like the warriors of Ephraim, and their heart will be glad, as if with wine, and their children will see and be gladdened, and their heart will be glad concerning the Lord. 8 I will make known to them, and I will receive them, because I will redeem them, and they will be multiplied as they were many. 9 And I will sow them among the people, and the ones from afar will remember me; they will rear their children, and they will return. 10 And I will return them from the land of Egypt, and from Assyria I will receive them, and to Gilead and to Lebanon I will bring them in, and not even one of them will be left behind. 11 And they will pass through a narrow sea, and they will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the rivers will dry up. And every pride of Assyria will be removed, and the scepter of Egypt will be taken away. 12 And I will prevail over them in the Lord, their God, and in his name, they will boast,” says the Lord. The Two Shepherds
11Open your doors, O Lebanon, and let fire devour your cedar trees. 2 Let the pine tree cry out, because the cedar has fallen, because great men have suffered greatly. Cry out, O oak trees of Bashan, because the thickly wooded thicket has been destroyed. 3 There is a sound of mourning shepherds, because their greatness has suffered misery; there is a sound of roaring lions, because the pride of the Jordan has suffered misery. 4 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Herd the sheep of slaughter, 5 which those who acquired them slaughtered, and they did not repent. And those selling them were saying, ‘Blessed is the Lord, and we have become rich,’ and their shepherds did not suffer anything for them. 6 On account of this, I will not have pity any longer on the ones who dwell in the land,” says the Lord. “And behold, I hand over the people, each into the hands of his neighbor and into the hands of his king, and they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue them out of their hand.” 7 So I will shepherd the sheep of the slaughter into the land of the Canaanites. And I will take for myself two rods; the one I called “Beauty” and the other I called “Allotment”; and I will shepherd the sheep. 8 And I will lift up three shepherds in one month, and my life will be hardened against them, for even their lives howl against me. 9 And I said, “I will not shepherd you. The thing that dies, let it die; and the thing that remains, let it remain; and as for the remaining, let them be devoured, each one the flesh of his neighbor.” 10 And I will take my rod, the beautiful one, and I will put it away in order to scatter abroad my covenant, which I disposed with all the people. 11 And it will be scattered abroad in that day, and the Canaanites will acknowledge the guarded sheep for me, because this is the word of the Lord. 12 And I will say to them, “If it is good before you, give me my wages or forbid it.” So, they established my wages as thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said to me, “Drop them into the smelting furnace, and I will search out if it is good, in what manner it is tested concerning them.” So, I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them into the house of the Lord, into the smelting furnace. 14 And I threw away the second rod, Allotment, to scatter abroad the possession between Judah and Israel. 15 And the Lord said to me, “Yet once more, take for yourself the equipment of a shepherd, of an unskillful shepherd. 16 Because behold, I will raise up a shepherd upon the earth. He will not visit the perishing, and he will not seek the scattered, and he will not restore the shattered, and he will not direct the intact, and he will devour the meat of the chosen, and he will dislocate their joints.” 17 Oh, you who tend the pointless things, and you who leave behind the sheep. There will be swords upon his arm and upon his right eye. His arm, drying up, will dry up; and his right eye, being blinded, will be made blind. The Lord Delivers Jerusalem
12The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord says, the one stretching out heaven and laying the foundation of the earth and forming the breath of a person in him, 2 “Behold, I set Jerusalem as a doorway to be shaken by all the surrounding people, and in Judah there will be a fortified enclosure against Jerusalem. 3 And it will be in that day, I will set Jerusalem as a trampled stone by all nations; everyone who tramples it when mocking will mock. And all the nations of the land will be gathered together against it. 4 In that day,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will strike every horse with terror and its rider with madness—but on the house of Judah I will open my eyes—and all the horses of the people I will strike with blindness. 5 And the captains of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘We will find for ourselves the ones who dwell in Jerusalem in the Lord Almighty, their God.’ 6 “In that day I will set the captains of Judah as a firebrand of fire in firewood and as torches of fire in straw, and they will devour from the right and from the left all the people from all around, and Jerusalem will settle itself down again, even in Jerusalem. 7 And the Lord will save the tents of Judah just as from the beginning, so that the pride of the house of David and the elation of the ones who reside in Jerusalem might not be increased over Judah. 8 And it will be in that day, the Lord will protect over the ones who reside in Jerusalem, and the weak will be among them in that day like David, and the house of David will be like the house of God, like an angel of the Lord before them. 9 And it will be in that day, I will desire to remove all the nations coming against Jerusalem. 10 “And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the ones who dwell in Jerusalem a spirit of grace and of mercy, and they will look attentively to me, because they danced triumphantly; and they will mourn for it with a mourning as for a beloved friend, and they will be grieved with a grief as for the firstborn. 11 In that day the mourning in Jerusalem will increase like the mourning for a pomegranate orchard that is cut down in a plain. 12 And the land will mourn, tribes by tribes, the tribe of the house of David according to itself and its women according to themselves, the tribe of the house of Nathan according to itself and its women according to themselves, 13 the tribe of the house Levi according to itself and its women according to themselves, the tribe of the Shimeites according to itself and its women according to themselves, 14 all the tribes who remain, a tribe according to itself and its women according to themselves. The Lord Cleanses Israel
13“In that day every place will be laid open for the house of David and those who dwell in Jerusalem for removal and for separation. 2 And it will be in that day,” says the Lord Sabaoth, “I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from the earth, and there will no longer be a memory of them. And I will remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit from the land. 3 And it will be, if a person should still prophesy, even his father and his mother, who brought him forth, will say to him, ‘You should not live, because you have spoken false things against the name of the Lord.’ And his father and his mother, who brought him forth, will bind him while he prophesies. 4 And it will be in that day, the prophets will be ashamed, each of his vision while he prophesied, and they will put on a cloak made of hair, because they lied. 5 And he will say, ‘I am not a prophet, because I am a person working the land, because a human brought me forth from my youth.’ 6 And I will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your hands?’ And he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my beloved.’ ” 7 “A sword has been raised up against my shepherds and against my male citizen,” says the Lord Almighty. “Strike the shepherds, and remove the sheep, and I will lay my hand upon the small. 8 And it will be in all the earth,” says the Lord. “Two of its parts will be utterly destroyed and come to an end, but the third part will be spared in it. 9 And I will carry over the third part through fire, and I will make them red-hot like silver tried by fire, and I will test them like gold that has been tested. He will call on my name, and I will hear him, and I will say, ‘This is my people,’ and he will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ” The Lord as King over All the Earth
14Behold, the days of the Lord are coming, and your spoils will be divided among you. 2 And I will gather together all nations against Jerusalem for war, and the city will be conquered, and the houses will be snatched away, and the women will be defiled, and half of the city will go out in captivity; but the rest of my people will not be utterly destroyed from the city. 3 And the Lord will go out and set up an army against those nations, just like the day of his arrangement in a day of war. 4 And in that day his feet will be placed upon the Mount of Olives, the one opposite Jerusalem from the east, and the Mount of Olives will be separated, half to the east and to the sea, a very great abyss; and half of the mountain will slope to the north, and half of it to the south. 5 And the ravine of my mountains will be shut up, and the ravine of the mountains will be joined to Azal, and it will be blocked up just as it was blocked in the days of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah. And the Lord, my God, will be present and all the holy ones with him. 6 And it will be in that day, there will be no light and life and frost. 7 It will be for one day—and that day is known to the Lord—and not a day and not a night, and toward evening there will be light. 8 And in that day living water will go out from Jerusalem, half of it into the first sea, and half of it into the last sea, and in summer and in spring it will be thus. 9 And the Lord will be king upon all the earth; in that day the Lord will be first and his name first. 10 One will surround all the earth and the wilderness from Geba to Rimmon down south to Jerusalem. But Ramah will remain upon the place, from the gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate to the gate of the corners and to the tower of Hananel, to the vessels of the king. 11 They will dwell in it, and it will no longer be accursed, and Jerusalem will reside confidently. 12 And this will be the falling by which the Lord will slaughter all the people, as many as made war against Jerusalem: Their flesh will melt while they have stood upon their feet, and their eyes will run out of their sockets, and their tongues will melt in their mouth. 13 And it will be in that day, a great terror of the Lord will come upon them, and each one will seize the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will be joined to the hand of his neighbor. 14 And Judah will set up an army in Jerusalem, and it will gather together the strength of all the people from all around—gold and silver and clothing for a great multitude. 15 And this will be the falling of the horses and the mules and the camels and the asses and of all the livestock, the ones that are in those camps, according to this falling. 16 And it will be, as many as were left behind from all the nations, the ones who came upon Jerusalem, they will go up yearly to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of the Tents. 17 And it will be, as many as do not go up from every tribe of the land to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these will be added to those. 18 But if the tribe of Egypt does not go up nor come, then on them shall be the destruction by which the Lord will strike every nation, as many as do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tents. 19 This will be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all the nations, as many as do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tents. 20 In that day, there will be upon the bridle of the horse, “Holy to the Lord Almighty.” And the kettles will be in the house of the Lord like shallow bowls in front of the face of the altar. 21 And every kettle in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty. And all those sacrificing will come, and they will receive from them, and they will boil in them. And there will no longer be Canaanites in the house of the Lord Almighty in that day.