Zechariah 9–14

^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.

²And ^eHamath also shall border thereby;

^fgTyrus, and ^fhZidon, though ⁱit be very wise.

³And Tyrus did build herself ^ka strong hold,

And ^lheaped up silver as the dust,

And ^mfine gold ⁿas the mire of the streets.

⁴Behold, the Lord will ^ocast her out,

And he will smite ^pher power in the sea;

And ^qshe shall be devoured with fire.

^5rAshkelon 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.

⁶And ^sa bastard shall dwell in ^tAshdod,

And I will cut off the pride of ^tthe Philistines.

⁷And 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.

⁸And ^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.

^9dRejoice 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.

¹⁰And ^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.

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

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

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

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

^13yyWhen 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.

¹⁴And 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.

¹⁵The 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.

¹⁶And 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.

¹⁷For ^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.

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;…