Zechariah 10–14

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.

²For ^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.

³Mine 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.

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

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

⁵And ^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.

⁶And ^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.

⁷And 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.

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

And ^ethey shall increase ^fas they have increased.

⁹And ^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.

¹⁰I 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.

¹¹And 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.

¹²And ^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.

^2cHowl, 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.

³There 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.

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

⁵Whose ^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.

⁶For ^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.

⁷And ^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. ⁸Three shepherds also ^uI cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. ⁹Then 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. ¹⁰And I took my staff, even ^sBeauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people. ¹¹And 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. ¹²And 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. ¹³And 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. ¹⁴Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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

¹⁶For, 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.

¹⁷Woe 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.

²Behold, ^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.

³And ^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.

^4hIn 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.

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

The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength

In the Lord of hosts their God.

^6hIn 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.

⁷The 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.

^8hIn 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.

⁹And it shall come to pass ^hin that day,

That I will seek ^wto destroy all the nations

That come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰And ^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.

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

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

¹²And ^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;

¹³The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;

The family of ⁿShimei apart, and their wives apart;

¹⁴All the families that remain,

Every family apart, and their wives apart.

XIII.^aIn that day there shall be ^ba fountain opened

To the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem

^cFor sin and for uncleanness.

²And it shall come to pass ^ain that day, saith the Lord of hosts,

That ^dI will cut off ^ethe names of the idols out of the land,

And ^fthey shall no more be remembered:

And also I will ^gcause the prophets and ^hthe unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

³And 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 ⁱhis father and his mother that begat him ^kshall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

⁴And it shall come to pass ^ain that day,

That the prophets ^lshall be ashamed every one ^lof his vision, when he hath prophesied;

Neither ^mshall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

⁵But he shall say, ⁿI am no prophet, I am a husbandman;

For man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

⁶And one shall say unto him, What are ^othese wounds in thine hands?

Then he shall answer, Those ^owith which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

⁷Awake, O sword, against ^pmy shepherd, and against ^qthe man that is ^rmy fellow,

Saith the Lord of hosts:

^stSmite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered:

And I will turn mine hand upon ^uthe little ones.

⁸And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord,

^vTwo parts therein shall be cut off and die;

But ^wthe third shall be left therein.

⁹And I will bring ^wthe third part through the fire,

And ^xwill ^yrefine them as silver is refined,

And ^xwill ^ztry them as gold is tried:

^aThey shall call on my name, and ^bI will hear them:

I ^cwill say, It is my people:

^cAnd they shall say, The Lord is my God.

XIV.^aBehold, the day of the Lord cometh,

And thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

²For ^bI will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;

And ^cthe city shall be taken, and ^dthe houses rifled, and ^dethe women ravished;

And ^fhalf of the city shall go forth into captivity,

And ^fthe residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

³Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations,

^gAs when he fought in the day of battle.

⁴And his feet shall stand ^hin that day upon ⁱthe 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 ^ka very great valley;

And half of the mountain shall ^lremove toward the north,

And half of it toward the south.

⁵And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains;

For ^kthe valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:

Yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before ^mthe earthquake

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