Zechariah 5–7

5 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying aroll. 2 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. 3 Then said he unto me,

This is bthe curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth:

For ||cevery one that stealeth dshall be cut off as eon this side according to it;

And gevery one that sweareth dshall be cut off as eon that side according to it.

4  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 ghhim that sweareth hfalsely by my name:

And iit shall remain in the midst of his house,

And jshall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

5 Then kthe angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. 6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is lan ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their mresemblance through all the earth. 7 And, behold, there was lifted up a ||ntalent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. 8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast othe weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. 9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and pthe wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of qa stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven. 10 Then said I to kthe angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? 11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in rthe land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

6 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 aof brass. 2 In the first chariot were bcred horses; and in the second chariot dblack horses; 3 And in the third chariot bewhite horses; and in the fourth chariot fgrisled and ||gbay horses. 4 Then I hanswered and said unto ithe angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord? 5 And the angel answered and said unto me, kThese are the four ||spirits of the heavens, which go forth from lstanding before mthe Lord of all the earth. 6 dThe black horses which are therein go forth into nthe north country; and ethe white go forth after them; and fthe grisled go forth toward othe south country. 7 And gthe bay went forth, and sought to go that they might pwalk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, pwalk to and fro through the earth. So they pwalked to and fro through the earth. 8 Then qcried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward nthe north country have quieted my rspirit in nthe north country.

9 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 10 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 sZephaniah; 11 Then take silver and gold, and make tcrowns, and set them upon the head of uJoshua the son of Josedech, the high priest; 12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying,

Behold vthe man whose name is wThe BRANCH;

And he shall ||grow up xout of his place,

And yhe shall build the temple of the Lord:

13  yEven he shall build the temple of the Lord;

And zhe shall bear athe glory,

And zshall sit and rule upon his throne;

And bhe shall be a priest upon his throne:

And the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

14 And cthe crowns shall be to dHelem, and to dTobijah, and to dJedaiah, and to Hen the son of dZephaniah, efor a memorial in the temple of the Lord. 15 And fthey that are far off gshall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and hye 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.

7 *And it came to pass ain 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 bChisleu; 2 When they had sent unto cthe house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, †to pray before the Lord, 3 And to speak unto dthe priests which were in cthe house of the Lord of hosts, and to ethe prophets, saying, Should I weep in fgthe fifth month, hseparating myself, as I have done lthese so many years?

4 Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying, 5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When iye fasted and mourned in fgthe fifth and fkseventh month, even lthose seventy years, did ye at all fast iunto me, even to me? 6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, ||did not ye eat mfor yourselves, and drink mfor yourselves? 7 ||Should ye not hear the words which the Lord hath cried †by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and nin prosperity, and othe cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited othe south and othe plain?

8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,

9  Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying,

pq†Execute true judgment,

And qshew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

10  And oppress not rrthe widow, nor rrthe fatherless, rrthe stranger, nor sthe poor;

And tlet none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

11  But uthey refused to hearken, and †pulled away the shoulder,

And †stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

12  Yea, wthey made their hearts as xan adamant stone, ylest they should hear the law,

And the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent yin his spirit †yby the former prophets:

Therefore zcame a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

13  Therefore it is come to pass, that aas he cried, and they would not hear;

aSo they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts:

14  But I bscattered them with a whirlwind camong all the nations dwhom they knew not.

Thus ethe land was desolate fafter them, gthat no man passed through nor returned:

For they laid hthe †pleasant land desolate.