Zechariah 9:1–14:21

* aThe burden of the word of the Lord in the land of bHadrach,

And cDamascus shall be the rest thereof:

When dthe eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.

2  And eHamath also shall border thereby;

fgTyrus, and fhZidon, though iit be very wise.

3  And Tyrus did build herself ka strong hold,

And lheaped up silver as the dust,

And mfine gold nas the mire of the streets.

4  Behold, the Lord will ocast her out,

And he will smite pher power in the sea;

And qshe shall be devoured with fire.

5  rAshkelon shall see it, and fear;

rGaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful,

And rEkron; for her expectation rrshall be ashamed;

And the king shall perish from Gaza,

And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

6  And sa bastard shall dwell in tAshdod,

And I will cut off the pride of tthe Philistines.

7  And I will take away uhis * 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 va governor in Judah,

And wEkron as xa Jebusite.

8  And yI will encamp about mine house because of the army,

Because of zhim that passeth by, and because of zhim that returneth:

And ano boppressor shall pass through them any more:

For now chave I seen with mine eyes.

9  dRejoice greatly, O edaughter of Zion;

eShout, O daughter of Jerusalem:

fBehold, gthy King cometh unto thee:

hHe is just, and * having salvation;

fiLowly, and kriding upon an ass,

fAnd upon a colt the foal of an ass.

10  And lI will cut off the chariot from Ephraim,

And lmthe horse from Jerusalem,

And the battle bow shall be cut off:

And nhe shall speak opeace unto the heathen:

pAnd his dominion shall be qfrom sea even to sea,

pAnd from the river even to rthe ends of the earth.

11  As for thee also, * by sthe blood of thy covenant

I thave sent forth thy tuprisoners out of vthe pit wherein is no water.

12  Turn ye to the strong hold, tye prisoners wof hope:

xEven to day do I declare that I will render ydouble unto thee;

13  yyWhen I have bent Judah for me, zfilled the bow with Ephraim,

And raised up thy sons, O Zion, against athy sons, bO Greece,

And made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

14  And the Lord shall be seen over them,

And chis arrow shall go forth as dthe lightning:

And ethe Lord God shall blow the trumpet,

And shall go fwith whirlwinds of gthe south.

15  The Lord of hosts hshall defend them; and ithey shall devour,

And * subdue with sling stones;

And they shall drink, and kmake a noise as through wine;

And they * shall be filled like lbowls, and as mthe corners of the altar.

16  And the Lord their God shall save them nin that day as othe flock of his people:

For they shall be as pthe stones of a crown, qlifted up as an ensign upon his land.

17  For rhow great is shis goodness, and how great is this beauty!

suCorn shall make the young men * cheerful, and swnew wine the maids.

X. Ask ye aof the Lord rain in the time of bthe latter rain;

So the Lord shall make * bright clouds,

And cgive them showers of rain,

To every one grass in the field.

2  For dthe * idols have spoken vanity,

And ethe diviners have seen a lie,

And fhave told efalse dreams;

gThey comfort din vain:

Therefore they went their way as a flock,

They * were troubled, hbecause there was no shepherd.

3  Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds,

And I * punished ithe goats:

For the Lord of hosts khath visited his flock the house of Judah,

And hath made them las his goodly horse in the battle.

4  Out of him came forth mthe corner, out of him nthe nail,

Out of him othe battle bow, out of him every poppressor together.

5  And qthey shall be as mighty men, rwhich tread down their enemies

rrIn the mire of the streets in the battle:

And they shall fight, sbecause the Lord is with them,

And * ttthe riders on horses ushall be confounded.

6  And vI will strengthen the house of Judah,

And vwI will save the house of Joseph,

And vwI will bring them again to place them; for I yhave mercy upon them:

And they shall be as though I had not cast them off:

For I am the Lord their God, and zwill hear them.

7  And they of Ephraim shall be qlike a mighty man,

And atheir heart shall rejoice as through wine:

Yea, their children shall see it, and bbe glad;

Their heart bshall rejoice in the Lord.

8  cI will hiss for them, and dgather them; for dI have redeemed them:

And ethey shall increase fas they have increased.

9  And gI will sow them among the people:

And hthey shall remember me in far countries;

And they shall live with their children, and turn again.

10  I will bring them again also iout of the land of Egypt,

And gather them iout of Assyria;

And I will bring them into the land of jkGilead and jlLebanon;

And mplace shall not be found for them.

11  And nhe shall pass through the sea with affliction,

And shall smite the waves in the sea,

And all the deeps of othe river shall dry up:

And the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,

And pthe sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

12  And qI will strengthen them in the Lord;

And rthey shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.

XI. Open thy doors, aO Lebanon, that bthe fire may devour thy cedars.

2  cHowl, fir tree; bfor the cedar is fallen; because the * mighty are spoiled:

cHowl, dO ye oaks of Bashan; for * ethe forest of gthe vintage is come down.

3  There is a voice of chthe howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled:

A voice of the roaring of iyoung lions; for jthe pride of Jordan is spoiled.

4  Thus saith the Lord my God; kFeed the flock of lthe slaughter;

5  Whose mpossessors lslay them, and nhold themselves not guilty:

And they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for oI am rich:

And their own shepherds pity them not.

6  For pI 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.

7  And kI will feed the flock of slaughter, * even you, rO poor of the flock.

And I took unto me two staves; the one I called sBeauty, and the other I called * Bands; and ktI fed the flock. 8 Three shepherds also uI cut off in one month; and my soul * lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: vthat that dieth, let it die; and that that is to ube cut off, let it be ucut off; and let the rest weat every one the flesh * of another. 10 And I took my staff, even sBeauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. 11 And it was broken in that day: and * so rthe poor of the flock xthat waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord. 12 And I said unto them, * If ye think good, ygive me my price; and if not, forbear. So zthey weighed for my price athirty pieces of silver. 13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto bthe potter: ca dgoodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took athe thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even * Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 And the Lord said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land,

eWhich shall not visit those that be * cut off,

eNeither shall seek the young one,

eNor fheal that that is broken,

Nor * gfeed that that standeth still:

But hhe shall eat the flesh of the fat,

And tear their claws in pieces.

17  Woe to ithe idol shepherd hkthat leaveth the flock!

The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon lhis right eye:

His arm shall be clean dried up,

And lhis right eye shall be utterly darkened.

XII. aThe burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord,

bWhich stretcheth forth the heavens, and clayeth the foundation of the earth,

And bdformeth the spirit of man within him.

2  Behold, eI will make Jerusalem fa cup of * gtrembling unto all the people round about,

* When they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

3  And hin that day will I make Jerusalem ia burdensome stone for all people:

jAll that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces,

kThough all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

4  hIn that day, saith the Lord,

lI will smite every horse with mastonishment, and his rider with mmadness:

And nI will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah,

And lwill smite every horse of the people with mblindness.

5  And othe governors of Judah shall say in their heart,

* The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength

In the Lord of hosts their God.

6  hIn that day will I make othe governors of Judah plike a hearth of fire among the wood,

And like a torch of fire in a sheaf;

And qthey shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left:

And rJerusalem shall be inhabited again sin her own place, even in Jerusalem.

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.

8  hIn that day shall the Lord tdefend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

And uhe that is * * feeble among them hat that day shall be as David;

And the house of David shall be as God,

As vthe angel of the Lord before them.

9  And it shall come to pass hin that day,

That I will seek wto destroy all the nations

That come against Jerusalem.

10  And xI will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

The spirit of grace and of ysupplications:

And zthey shall look upon me whom they ahave pierced,

And bthey shall mourn for him, as cone mourneth for dhis only son,

And shall be cin bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

11  eIn that day fshall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem,

gAs the mourning of Hadad hrimmon in the valley of iMegiddon.

12  And fthe land shall mourn, * kevery family apart;

The family of the house of David apart, and kltheir wives apart;

The family of the house of mNathan apart, and their wives apart;

13  The family …