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The restoration

CHAP. VIu

of Jerusalem. Spirit by the former prophets: thereof the affliction: for I set all men evefore came a great wrath from the ry one against his neighbour. LORD of hosts.

11 But now I will not be unto the 13 Therefore it is come to pass, that residue of this people as in the former as he cried, and they would not hear; days, saith the Load of hoste, Fo they cried, and I would not bear, 12 For the seed shall be prosperous; saith the LORD of hosts: the vine shall give her fruit, and the 14 But I scattered them with a whirl-ground shall give her increase,and the wind among all the nations whom they heavens shall give their dew; and 1 knew not. Thus the land was deso-will cause the renmant of this people late after them, that no man passed to possess all these things, through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

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CHAP. VIII.

GAIN the word of the Lond of hosts came to me, saying,

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13 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.

2 Thus saith the LonD of hosts; I 14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; was jealous for Zion with great jeal-As I thought to punish you, when ousy, and I was jealous for her with your fathers provoked me to wrath, great fury. saith the LORD of hosts, and I repent3 Thus saith the LORD; I am re-ed not: turned unto Zion, and will dwell in 15 So again have I thought in these the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusa-days to do well unto Jerusalem and to lem shall be called, A city of truth; the house of Judalı: fear ye not. and the mountain of the LORD of 16 These are the things that ye hosts, The holy mountain. shall do; Speak ye every man the

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4 Thus saith the LonD of hosts; truth to his neighbour; execute the There shall yet old men and old wo-judgment of truth and peace in your men dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

17 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. 18 T And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, 19 Thus saith the Lond of hosta · The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; shall be to the house of Judah joy and Behold, I will save my people from gladness, and cheerful feasts; therethe east country, and from the west fore love the truth and peace. country;

6 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.

S 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.

9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days the 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.

20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

21 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LonD of hosts: I will go also.

22 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD Oľ hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

10 For before these days there was 23 Thus saith the Lead of hosts ; In no hire for man, nor any hire for those days it shall come to pass, that beast; neither was there any peace to ten men shall take hold out of all lanhim that went out or came in because¦gnages of the nations, even shall take

God's promises of

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victory and defence. bold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, [declare that I will render double unto saying, We will go with you; for we thee. have heard that God is with you.

CHAP. IX.

13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephrain, and rais

HE burden of the word of the fed up thy sons, O Zion, against thy

Tot in the land of Fadrach, sons, O Greece, and made thee as the

aud Damascusshall be the rest thereof; sword of a mighty man.
when the eyes of man, as of all the
tribes of Israel, shall be toward the
LORD.

14 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.

2 And Hamath also shall border thereby Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise. 15 The Lond of hosts shall defend 3 AndTyrus did build herself a strong them; and they shall devour, and subhold, and heaped up silver as the dust, due with sling-stones: and they shall and fine gold as the mire of the street. drink, and make a noise as through 4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, wine; and they shall be filled like and he will smite her power in the bowls, and as the corners of the altar, sea; and sire shall be devoured with 16 And the Load their God shall fire. save them in that day as the flock of 6 Askelon shall see it, and fear; his people: for they shall be as the Gaza also shall see it, and be very sor-stones of a crown, lifted up as an enrowful and Ekrou; for her expecta-sign upon his land. tion & all be ashamed; and the king 17 For how great is his goodness,and shall perish from Gaza, and Askelon how great is bis beauty! Corn shall shall not be inhabited. make the young men cheerful, and 6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ash-[new wine the maids, dod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

CHAP. X.

ASK se of the LORD rain in the time

7. And I will take away his blood out of the latter rain: so the LORD of his mouth, and his abominations shall make bright clouds, and give from between his teeth: but he that them showers of rain, to every one remaineth, even he, shall be for our grass in the field.

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God, and he shall be as a governor in| 2 For the idols have spoken vanity, udah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. and the diviners have seen a lie, and

8 And I will encamp about my house have told false dreams; they comfort because of the army, because of him in vain: therefore they went their that passeth by, and because of him way as a flock, they were troubled,bethat returneth: and no oppressor shall cause there was no shepherd. pass through them any more: for now 3 T Mine anger was kindled against have I seen with mine eyes. the shepherds, and I punished the 9 Rejoice greatly,O daughter of Zion: goats: for the LouD of hosts hath shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: be-visited his flock the house of Judah, hold, thy King cometh unto thee: he and hath made them as his goodly just, and having salvation; lowly, horse in the battle. and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle-bow, out of him every oppres

10 Aud I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusa-sor together. em, 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.

11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy orisoners out of the pit wherein is no

5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemics in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because the Lond is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to 12 Turn you to the strong hold,ye place them: for I have mercy upou prisoners of hope: even to-day do them; and they shall be as though I

water.

The destruction

CHAP. XI, XIL

bad not cast them off: for 1 am the LouD their God, and will hear them, 7. 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 Lond. 8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redɛenied them; and they shall increase as they have in creased.

of Jerusaler. one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then said I, 1 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.

10 TAnd I took my staff, even Beauty, 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 the poor of the flock that waited upon mé knew that it was the word of the LORD.

12 And 1 said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my

9 And I will sow them among the people and they shall remember me a far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 101 will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; price thirty pieces of silver. and place shall not be found for them. 13 And the Lord said unto me, Cast 11 And he shall pass through the sea it unto the potter: a goodly price that with affliction, and shall smite the I was prized at of them. And I took waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the thirty pieces of silver, and castthem the river shall dry up; and the pride to the potter in the house of the LORD of Assyria shall be brought down,and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. 12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

CHAP. XI.

PEN thy doors, O Lebanon, that

14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff,even Bands,that I might break the brotherliood betweenJudah and Israel. 15 T And the Lond said unto me Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd:

16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd

OPEN Othy Cedars, in the land, which shall not visit these

2 How), fir-tree, for the cedar is that be cut off, neither shall seek the fallen; because the mighty are spoil-young one, nor heal that that is broken. ed: bowl, O ye oaks of Bashan, for nor feed that that standeth still; but the forest of the vintage is come down, he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and 3. There is a voice of the howling of tear their claws in pieces. the shepherds; for their glory is spoil 17 Wo to the idol shepherd that leav ed: a voice of the roaring of young li-eth the flock! the sword shall be upon ons; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. his arm, and upon his right eye: hie 4 T Thus saith the Lord my God, arm shall be clean dried up, and his Feed the flock of the slaughter; right eye shall be utterly darkened. 6 Whose possessors slay them, and CHAP. XII, hold themselves not guilty and they FHE burden of the word of the that sell them say, Blessed be the Load for Israel, saith the LORD, LORD; for I am rich; and their own which stretcheth forth the heavens, shepherds pity them not. and layeth the foundation of the earth 6 For I will no more pity the inhab- and formeth the spirit of man within itants of the land, saith the LORD; but,|him.

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lo, I will deliver the men every one 2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a into his neighbour's band, and into the cup of trembling unto all the people band of his king; and they shall smite round about, when they shall be in the the land, and out of their band I will siege both against Judah and against not deliver them. Jerusalem.

* 7 And I will feed the flock of slaugh-] ter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the ouc I called Beauty, and the other 1 called Bands; and, I fed the flock.

3. 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 to

Three shepherds also I cut off in gether against it.

The repentance

ZECHARIAH.

of Jerusalem. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin smite every horse with astonishment, and for uncleanness.

and his rider with madness: and I 2 T And it shall come to pass in that will open mine eyes upon the house of day, saith the LORD of hosts, that 1 Judali, and will smite every horse of will cut off the name of the idols out the people with blindness. of the land, and they shall no more ve 5 And the governors of Judah shall]remembered: and also I will cause the say in their heart, The inhabitants of prophets and the uncleanspirits to pass Jerusalem shall be my strength in the out of the land.

LouD of hosts their God. 3 And it shall come to pass, that 6¶ In that day will I make the gov-when any shall yet prophesy, then his ernors of Judahy like a hearth of fire father and his mother that begat him among the wood, and like a torch of shall say unto him, Thou shalt not fire in a sheaf'; and they shall devour live; for thou speakest lies in the all the people round about, on the right|name of the LORD: and his father hand and on the left: and Jerusalem and his mother that begat him shall shall be inhabited again in her own thrust him through when he propheplace, even in Jerusalem.

sieth.

7 The Lono also shall save the tents 4 And it shall come to pass in that of Judah first, that the glory of the day,that the prophets shall be ashamed bouse of David and the glory of the every one of his visiou, when he hath inhabitants of Jerusalem do not mag-prophesied; neither shall they wear a nify themselves against Judah.

8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and be 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.

rough garment to deceive;

5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, 1 am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth. 6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thy hands? Then be shall answer, Those with which I 9 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that was wounded in the house of my day, that I will seek to destroy all the friends.

nations that come against Jerusalem. 7 ¶ Awake, O sword, against my 20 And I will pour upon the house of Shepherd, and against the man that is David, and upon the inhabitants of Je-my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts. rusalem, the spirit of grace and of sup-sinite the Shepherd, and the sheep plications: and they shall look upon shall be scattered: and I will turn my me whom they have pierced, and they band upon the little ones.

shall moum for him, as one mourneth 8 Amd it shall come to pass, that in for his only son, and shall be in bitter all the land, saith the LORD, two parts ness for him, as one that is in bitter-therein shall be cut off and die; but ness for his first-born. the third shall be left therein.

11 In that day shall there be a great 9 And I will bring the third part mourning in Jerusalein, as the mourn-through the fire, and will refine thein mg of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of las silver is refined, and will try them Megiddon. as gold is tried: they shall call on my

12 And the land shall mourn, every naine, and I will hear them: 1 will family apart; the family of the house say, it is my people: and they shall of David apart, and their wives apart; say, The LORD is my God. the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

CHAP. XIV.

13 The family of the bouse of Levi BEHOLD, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be apart, and their wives apart; the fam-[divided in the midst of thee. ily of Shimei apart, and their wives 2 For I will gather all nations against apart; Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and balf of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cu

14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

CHAP. XIIL

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fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

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and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tunult from the Lond shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the band of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

4 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 thereoftoward 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. 14 And Judah also shall fight at Je5 And ye shall flee to the valley of rusalem; and the wealth of all the the mountains; for the valley of the heathen round about shall be gathered mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, together, gold, and silver, and apparel, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from bein great abundance. fore the earthquake in the days of 15 And so shall be the plague of the Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lone 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. 16 1 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, sball 7 But it shall be one day which shall even go up from year to year to worbe known to the LORD, not day, nor ship the King, the LORD of hosts, and night: but it shall come to pass, that to keep the feast of tabernacles. at evening time it shall be light.

my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

17 And it shall be, that whoso will

8 And it shall be in that day,_that not come up of all the families of the living waters shall go out from Jeru-earth unto Jerusalem to worship the salem; half of them toward the for- King, the LORD of hosts, even upon mer sea, and half of them toward the them shall be no rain. binder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

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10 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 Beujamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Havaneel unto the king's wine-presses.

18 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 hentben that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all na tions that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

20 ¶ In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in 11 And men shall dwell in it, and the Lour's house shall be like the there shall be no more utter destruc-bowls before the altar. tion; but Jerusalem shall be safely in- 21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and nabited. in Judah shall be holiness unto the 12 T And this shall be the plague LORD of hosts: and all they that sawherewith the LORD will smite all crifice shall come and take of them, the people that have fought against and seethe therein and in that day Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume there shall be no more the Canaanite away while they stand upon their feet, in the house of the LORD of hosts.

CHAP. I.

¶ MALACHI.

Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved HE burden of the word of the us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

Tonto Israel by Malachi.

2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his

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