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Book 38 Zechariah
38:001:001 In the eighth month, in
the second year of Darius, came the
word of the LORD unto
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son
of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
38:001:002 The LORD hath been sore
displeased with your fathers.
38:001:003 Therefore say thou unto
them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Turn ye unto me, saith
the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto
you, saith the LORD of
hosts.
38:001:004 Be ye not as your
fathers, unto whom the former prophets have
cried, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from
your evil ways, and
from your evil doings: but they did not
hear, nor hearken unto
me, saith the LORD.
38:001:005 Your fathers, where are
they? and the prophets, do they live
for ever?
38:001:006 But my words and my
statutes, which I commanded my servants
the prophets, did they
not take hold of your fathers? and they
returned and said, Like
as the LORD of hosts thought to do
unto us, according to
our ways, and according to our doings,
so hath he dealt with
us.
38:001:007 Upon the four and
twentieth day of the eleventh month, which
is the month Sebat, in
the second year of Darius, came the
word of the LORD unto
Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son
of Iddo the prophet,
saying,
38:001:008 I saw by night, and
behold a man riding upon a red horse, and
he stood among the
myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and
behind him were there
red horses, speckled, and white.
38:001:009 Then said I, O my lord,
what are these? And the angel that
talked with me said
unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
38:001:010 And the man that stood
among the myrtle trees answered and
said, These are they
whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and
fro through the earth.
38:001:011 And they answered the
angel of the LORD that stood among the
myrtle trees, and said,
We have walked to and fro through the
earth, and, behold, all
the earth sitteth still, and is at
rest.
38:001:012 Then the angel of the
LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts,
how long wilt thou not
have mercy on Jerusalem and on the
cities of Judah,
against which thou hast had indignation these
threescore and ten
years?
38:001:013 And the LORD answered
the angel that talked with me with good
words and comfortable
words.
38:001:014 So the angel that
communed with me said unto me, Cry thou,
saying, Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; I am jealous for
Jerusalem and for Zion
with a great jealousy.
38:001:015 And I am very sore
displeased with the heathen that are at
ease: for I was but a
little displeased, and they helped
forward the affliction.
38:001:016 Therefore thus saith
the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with
mercies: my house shall
be built in it, saith the LORD of
hosts, and a line shall
be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.
38:001:017 Cry yet, saying, Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; My cities
through prosperity
shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD
shall yet comfort Zion,
and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
38:001:018 Then lifted I up mine
eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
38:001:019 And I said unto the
angel that talked with me, What be these?
And he answered me,
These are the horns which have scattered
Judah, Israel, and
Jerusalem.
38:001:020 And the LORD shewed me
four carpenters.
38:001:021 Then said I, What come
these to do? And he spake, saying,
These are the horns
which have scattered Judah, so that no man
did lift up his head:
but these are come to fray them, to cast
out the horns of the
Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over
the land of Judah to
scatter it.
38:002:001 I lifted up mine eyes
again, and looked, and behold a man with
a measuring line in his
hand.
38:002:002 Then said I, Whither
goest thou? And he said unto me, To
measure Jerusalem, to
see what is the breadth thereof, and
what is the length
thereof.
38:002:003 And, behold, the angel
that talked with me went forth, and
another angel went out
to meet him,
38:002:004 And said unto him, Run,
speak to this young man, saying,
Jerusalem shall be
inhabited as towns without walls for the
multitude of men and
cattle therein:
38:002:005 For I, saith the LORD,
will be unto her a wall of fire round
about, and will be the
glory in the midst of her.
38:002:006 Ho, ho, come forth, and
flee from the land of the north, saith
the LORD: for I have
spread you abroad as the four winds of
the heaven, saith the
LORD.
38:002:007 Deliver thyself, O
Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of
Babylon.
38:002:008 For thus saith the LORD
of hosts; After the glory hath he sent
me unto the nations
which spoiled you: for he that toucheth
you toucheth the apple
of his eye.
38:002:009 For, behold, I will
shake mine hand upon them, and they shall
be a spoil to their
servants: and ye shall know that the LORD
of hosts hath sent me.
38:002:010 Sing and rejoice, O
daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I
will dwell in the midst
of thee, saith the LORD.
38:002:011 And many nations shall
be joined to the LORD in 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 hath sent me unto thee.
38:002:012 And the LORD shall
inherit Judah his portion in the holy land,
and shall choose
Jerusalem again.
38:002:013 Be silent, O all flesh,
before the LORD: for he is raised up
out of his holy
habitation.
38:003:001 And he shewed me Joshua
the high priest standing before the
angel of the LORD, and
Satan standing at his right hand to
resist him.
38:003:002 And the LORD said unto
Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan;
even the LORD that hath
chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not
this a brand plucked
out of the fire?
38:003:003 Now Joshua was clothed
with filthy garments, and stood before
the angel.
38:003:004 And he answered and
spake unto those that stood before him,
saying, Take away the
filthy garments from him. And unto him
he said, Behold, I have
caused thine iniquity to pass from
thee, and I will clothe
thee with change of raiment.
38:003:005 And I said, Let them
set a fair mitre upon his head. So they
set a fair mitre upon
his head, and clothed him with garments.
And the angel of the
LORD stood by.
38:003:006 And the angel of the
LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
38:003:007 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways,
and if thou wilt keep
my charge, then thou shalt also judge my
house, and shalt also
keep my courts, and I will give thee
places to walk among
these that stand by.
38:003:008 Hear now, O Joshua the
high priest, thou, and thy fellows that
sit before thee: for
they are men wondered at: for, behold, I
will bring forth my
servant the BRANCH.
38:003:009 For behold the stone
that I have laid before Joshua; upon one
stone shall be seven
eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving
thereof, saith the LORD
of hosts, and I will remove the
iniquity of that land
in one day.
38:003:010 In that day, saith the
LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man
his neighbour under the
vine and under the fig tree.
38:004:001 And the angel that
talked with me came again, and waked me, as
a man that is wakened
out of his sleep.
38:004:002 And said unto 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 his seven
lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the
seven lamps, which are
upon the top thereof:
38:004:003 And two olive trees by
it, one upon the right side of the
bowl, and the other
upon the left side thereof.
38:004:004 So I answered and spake
to the angel that talked with me,
saying, What are these,
my lord?
38:004:005 Then the angel that
talked with me answered and said unto me,
Knowest thou not what
these be? And I said, No, my lord.
38:004:006 Then he answered and
spake unto me, saying, This is the word
of the LORD unto
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by
power, but by my
spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
38:004:007 Who art thou, O great
mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt
become a plain: and he
shall bring forth the headstone thereof
with shoutings, crying,
Grace, grace unto it.
38:004:008 Moreover the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
38:004:009 The hands of Zerubbabel
have laid the foundation of this
house; his hands shall
also finish it; and thou shalt know
that the LORD of hosts
hath sent me unto you.
38:004:010 For who hath despised
the day of small things? for they shall
rejoice, and shall see
the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel
with those seven; they
are the eyes of the LORD, which run to
and fro through the
whole earth.
38:004:011 Then answered I, and
said unto him, What are these two olive
trees upon the right
side of the candlestick and upon the left
side thereof?
38:004:012 And I answered again,
and said unto him, What be these two
olive branches which
through the two golden pipes empty the
golden oil out of
themselves?
38:004:013 And he answered me and
said, Knowest thou not what these be?
And I said, No, my
lord.
38:004:014 Then said he, These are
the two anointed ones, that stand by
the LORD of the whole
earth.
38:005:001 Then I turned, and
lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold
a flying roll.
38:005:002 And he said unto me,
What seest thou? And I answered, I see a
flying roll; the length
thereof is twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof ten
cubits.
38:005:003 Then said he unto me,
This is the curse that goeth forth over
the face of the whole
earth: for every one that stealeth shall
be cut off as on this
side according to it; and every one that
sweareth shall be cut
off as on that side according to it.
38:005:004 I will bring it forth,
saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall
enter into the house of
the thief, and into the house of him
that sweareth falsely
by my name: and it shall remain in the
midst of his house, and
shall consume it with the timber
thereof and the stones
thereof.
38:005:005 Then the angel that
talked with me went forth, and said unto
me, Lift up now thine
eyes, and see what is this that goeth
forth.
38:005:006 And I said, What is it?
And he said, This is an ephah that
goeth forth. He said
moreover, This is their resemblance
through all the earth.
38:005:007 And, behold, there was
lifted up a talent of lead: and this is
a woman that sitteth in
the midst of the ephah.
38:005:008 And he said, This is
wickedness. And he cast it into the midst
of the ephah; and he
cast the weight of lead upon the mouth
thereof.
38:005:009 Then lifted I up mine
eyes, and looked, and, behold, there
came out two women, and
the wind was in their wings; for they
had wings like the
wings of a stork: and they lifted up the
ephah between the earth
and the heaven.
38:005:010 Then said I to the
angel that talked with me, Whither do these
bear the ephah?
38:005:011 And he said unto me, To
build it an house in the land of
Shinar: and it shall be
established, and set there upon her
own base.
38:006:001 And I turned, and
lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and,
behold, there came four
chariots out from between two
mountains; and the
mountains were mountains of brass.
38:006:002 In the first chariot
were red horses; and in the second
chariot black horses;
38:006:003 And in the third
chariot white horses; and in the fourth
chariot grisled and bay
horses.
38:006:004 Then I answered and
said unto the angel that talked with me,
What are these, my
lord?
38:006:005 And the angel answered
and said unto me, These are the four
spirits of the heavens,
which go forth from standing before
the LORD of all the
earth.
38:006:006 The black horses which
are therein go forth into the north
country; and the white
go forth after them; and the grisled go
forth toward the south
country.
38:006:007 And the bay went forth,
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.
38:006:008 Then cried he upon me,
and spake unto me, saying, Behold,
these that go toward
the north country have quieted my spirit
in the north country.
38:006:009 And the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying,
38:006:010 Take of them of the
captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and
of Jedaiah, which are
come from Babylon, and come thou the
same day, and go into
the house of Josiah the son of
Zephaniah;
38:006:011 Then take silver and
gold, and make crowns, and set them upon
the head of Joshua the
son of Josedech, the high priest;
38:006:012 And speak unto him,
saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts,
saying, Behold the man
whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall
grow up out of his
place, and he shall build the temple of the
LORD:
38:006:013 Even he shall build the
temple of the LORD; and he shall bear
the glory, and shall
sit and rule upon his throne; and he
shall be a priest upon
his throne: and the counsel of peace
shall be between them
both.
38:006:014 And 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 the LORD.
38:006:015 And they that are far
off shall come and build in the temple
of the LORD, and ye
shall know that the LORD of hosts hath
sent me unto you. And
this shall come to pass, if ye will
diligently obey the
voice of the LORD your God.
38:007:001 And it came to pass in
the fourth year of king Darius, that
the word of the LORD
came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of
the ninth month, even
in Chisleu;
38:007:002 When they had sent unto
the house of God Sherezer and
Regemmelech, and their
men, to pray before the LORD,
38:007:003 And to speak unto the
priests which 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?
38:007:004 Then came the word of
the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
38:007:005 Speak unto all the
people of the land, and to the priests,
saying, When ye fasted
and mourned in the fifth and seventh
month, even those
seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me,
even to me?
38:007:006 And when ye did eat,
and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for
yourselves, and drink
for yourselves?
38:007:007 Should ye not hear the
words which the LORD hath cried by the
former prophets, when
Jerusalem was inhabited and in
prosperity, and the
cities thereof round about her, when men
inhabited the south and
the plain?
38:007:008 And the word of the
LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,
38:007:009 Thus speaketh the LORD
of hosts, saying, Execute true
judgment, and shew
mercy and compassions every man to his
brother:
38:007:010 And oppress not the
widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger,
nor the poor; and let
none of you imagine evil against his
brother in your heart.
38:007:011 But they refused to
hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and
stopped their ears,
that they should not hear.
38:007:012 Yea, they made their
hearts as an adamant stone, lest they
should hear the law,
and the words which the LORD of hosts
hath sent in his spirit
by the former prophets: therefore came
a great wrath from the
LORD of hosts.
38:007:013 Therefore it is come to
pass, that as he cried, and they would
not hear; so they
cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD
of hosts:
38:007:014 But I scattered them
with a whirlwind among all the nations
whom they knew not.
Thus the land was desolate after them,
that no man passed
through nor returned: for they laid the
pleasant land desolate.
38:008:001 Again the word of the
LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
38:008:002 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; I was jealous for Zion with
great jealousy, and I
was jealous for her with great fury.
38:008:003 Thus saith the LORD; I
am returned unto Zion, and will dwell
in the midst of
Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a
city of truth; and the
mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy
mountain.
38:008:004 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; There shall yet old men and old
women dwell in the
streets of Jerusalem, and every man with
his staff in his hand
for very age.
38:008:005 And the streets of the
city shall be full of boys and girls
playing in the streets
thereof.
38:008:006 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes
of the remnant of this
people in these days, should it also be
marvellous in mine
eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
38:008:007 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Behold, I will save my people
from the east country,
and from the west country;
38:008:008 And I will bring them,
and they shall dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their
God, in truth and in
righteousness.
38:008:009 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye
that hear in these days
these words by the mouth of the
prophets, which were in
the day that the foundation of the
house of the LORD of
hosts was laid, that the temple might be
built.
38:008:010 For before these days
there was no hire for man, nor any hire
for beast; neither was
there any peace to him that went out or
came in because of the
affliction: for I set all men every one
against his neighbour.
38:008:011 But now I will not be
unto the residue of this people as in
the former days, saith
the LORD of hosts.
38:008:012 For the seed shall be
prosperous; the vine shall give her
fruit, and the ground
shall give her increase, and the heavens
shall give their dew;
and I will cause the remnant of this
people to possess all
these things.
38:008:013 And it shall come to
pass, that as ye were a curse among the
heathen, O house of
Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save
you, and ye shall be a
blessing: fear not, but let your hands
be strong.
38:008:014 For thus saith the LORD
of hosts; As I thought to punish you,
when your fathers
provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of
hosts, and I repented
not:
38:008:015 So again have I thought
in these days to do well unto
Jerusalem and to the
house of Judah: fear ye not.
38:008:016 These are the things
that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the
truth to his neighbour;
execute the judgment of truth and
peace in your gates:
38:008:017 And let none of you
imagine evil in your hearts against his
neighbour; and love no
false oath: for all these are things
that I hate, saith the
LORD.
38:008:018 And the word of the
LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
38:008:019 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; The fast of the fourth month,
and the fast of the
fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and
the fast of the tenth,
shall be to the house of Judah joy and
gladness, and cheerful
feasts; therefore love the truth and
peace.
38:008:020 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that
there shall come
people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
38:008:021 And the inhabitants of
one city shall go to another, saying,
Let us go speedily to
pray before the LORD, and to seek the
LORD of hosts: I will
go also.
38:008:022 Yea, many people and
strong nations shall come to seek the
LORD of hosts in
Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
38:008:023 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts; In those days it shall come to
pass, that ten men
shall take hold out of all languages of the
nations, even shall
take hold of the skirt of him that is a
Jew, saying, We will go
with you: for we have heard that God
is with you.
38:009:001 The burden of the word
of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and
Damascus shall be the
rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as
of all the tribes of
Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
38:009:002 And Hamath also shall
border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though
it be very wise.
38:009:003 And Tyrus did build
herself a strong hold, and heaped up
silver as the dust, and
fine gold as the mire of the streets.
38:009:004 Behold, the LORD will
cast her out, and he will smite her
power in the sea; and
she shall be devoured with fire.
38:009:005 Ashkelon shall see it,
and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and
be very sorrowful, and
Ekron; for her expectation shall be
ashamed; and the king
shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon
shall not be inhabited.
38:009:006 And a bastard shall
dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the
pride of the
Philistines.
38:009:007 And I will take away
his blood out of his mouth, and his
abominations from
between his teeth: but he that remaineth,
even he, shall be for
our God, and he shall be as a governor
in Judah, and Ekron as
a Jebusite.
38:009:008 And I will encamp about
mine house because of the army,
because of him that
passeth by, and because of him that
returneth: and no
oppressor shall pass through them any more:
for now have I seen
with mine eyes.
38:009:009 Rejoice greatly, O
daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem: behold, thy
King cometh unto thee: he is just, and
having salvation;
lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a
colt the foal of an
ass.
38:009:010 And I will cut off the
chariot from Ephraim, and the horse
from Jerusalem, and the
battle bow shall be cut off: and he
shall speak peace unto
the heathen: and his dominion shall be
from sea even to sea,
and from the river even to the ends of
the earth.
38:009:011 As for thee also, by
the blood of thy covenant I have sent
forth thy prisoners out
of the pit wherein is no water.
38:009:012 Turn you to the strong
hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day
do I declare that I
will render double unto thee;
38:009:013 When I have bent Judah
for me, filled the bow with Ephraim,
and raised up thy sons,
O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece,
and made thee as the
sword of a mighty man.
38:009:014 And the LORD shall be
seen over them, and his arrow shall go
forth as the lightning:
and the LORD God shall blow the
trumpet, and shall go
with whirlwinds of the south.
38:009:015 The LORD of hosts shall
defend them; and they shall devour,
and subdue with sling
stones; and they shall drink, and make a
noise as through wine;
and they shall be filled like bowls,
and as the corners of
the altar.
38:009:016 And the LORD their God
shall save them in that day as the
flock of his people:
for they shall be as the stones of a
crown, lifted up as an
ensign upon his land.
38:009:017 For how great is his
goodness, and how great is his beauty!
corn shall make the
young men cheerful, and new wine the
maids.
38:010:001 Ask ye of the LORD rain
in the time of the latter rain; so the
LORD shall make bright
clouds, and give them showers of rain,
to every one grass in
the field.
38:010:002 For the idols have
spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a
lie, and have told
false dreams; they comfort in vain:
therefore they went
their way as a flock, they were troubled,
because there was no
shepherd.
38:010:003 Mine anger was kindled
against the shepherds, and I punished
the goats: for the LORD
of hosts hath visited his flock the
house of Judah, and
hath made them as his goodly horse in the
battle.
38:010:004 Out of him came forth
the corner, out of him the nail, out of
him the battle bow, out
of him every oppressor together.
38:010:005 And they shall be as
mighty men, which 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.
38:010:006 And I will strengthen
the house of Judah, and I will save the
house of Joseph, and I
will bring them again to place them;
for I have 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.
38:010:007 And they of Ephraim
shall be like a mighty man, and their
heart shall rejoice as
through wine: yea, their children shall
see it, and be glad;
their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
38:010:008 I will hiss for them,
and gather them; for I have redeemed
them: and they shall
increase as they have increased.
38:010:009 And I will sow them
among the people: and they shall remember
me in far countries;
and they shall live with their children,
and turn again.
38:010:010 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 place shall not be found for
them.
38:010:011 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 Assyria shall be brought down,
and the sceptre of
Egypt shall depart away.
38:010:012 And I will strengthen
them in the LORD; and they shall walk up
and down in his name,
saith the LORD.
38:011:001 Open thy doors, O
Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy
cedars.
38:011:002 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.
38:011:003 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.
38:011:004 Thus saith the LORD my
God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
38:011:005 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.
38:011:006 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.
38:011:007 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.
38:011:008 Three shepherds also I
cut off in one month; and my soul
lothed them, and their
soul also abhorred me.
38:011:009 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.
38:011:010 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.
38:011:011 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.
38:011:012 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.
38:011:013 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.
38:011:014 Then I cut asunder mine
other staff, even Bands, that I might
break the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel.
38:011:015 And the LORD said unto
me, Take unto thee yet the instruments
of a foolish shepherd.
38:011:016 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.
38:011:017 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.
38:012:001 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.
38:012:002 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.
38:012:003 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.
38:012:004 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.
38:012:005 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.
38:012:006 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.
38:012:007 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.
38:012:008 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.
38:012:009 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that I will seek to
destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.
38:012:010 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.
38:012:011 In that day shall there
be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as
the mourning of
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
38:012:012 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;
38:012:013 The family of the house
of Levi apart, and their wives apart;
the family of Shimei
apart, and their wives apart;
38:012:014 All the families that
remain, every family apart, and their
wives apart.
38:013:001 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.
38:013:002 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.
38:013:003 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.
38:013:004 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:
38:013:005 But he shall say, I am
no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man
taught me to keep
cattle from my youth.
38:013:006 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.
38:013:007 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.
38:013:008 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.
38:013:009 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.
38:014:001 Behold, the day of the
LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of
thee.
38:014:002 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.
38:014:003 Then shall the LORD go
forth, and fight against those nations,
as when he fought in
the day of battle.
38:014:004 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.
38:014:005 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.
38:014:006 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the light shall
not be clear, nor dark:
38:014:007 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.
38:014:008 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.
38:014:009 And the LORD shall be
king over all the earth: in that day
shall there be one
LORD, and his name one.
38:014:010 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.
38:014:011 And men shall dwell in
it, and there shall be no more utter
destruction; but
Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
38:014:012 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.
38:014:013 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.
38:014:014 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.
38:014:015 And so 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 tents, as this
plague.
38:014:016 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.
38:014:017 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.
38:014:018 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.
38:014:019 This shall be the
punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of
all nations that come
not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
38:014:020 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.
38:014:021 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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