Judgment of the Philistines, &c. ZEPHANIAH.

The restoration of Israel.

out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. shall be rooted up. 4 Her prophets are light and treache5 Wo unto the inhabitants of the sea rous persons: her priests have polluted the coasts, the nation of the Cherethites! the sanctuary, they have done violence to the word of the LORD is against you; O Ca- law.

naan, the land of the Philistines, I will 5 The just LORD is in the midst thereeven destroy thee, that there shall be no of; he will not do iniquity: every morning inhabitant. doth he bring his judgment to light, be 6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings, faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no and cottages for shepherds, and folds for shame. flocks.

6 I have cut off the nations: their towers

7 And the coast shall be for the rem-are desolate; I made their streets waste, nant of the house of Judah; they shall that none passeth by: their cities are defeed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon stroyed, so that there is no man, that there shall they lie down in the evening for is none inhabitant.

the LORD their God shall visit them, and 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou turn away their captivity. wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling 8¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, should not be cut off, howsoever I punishand the revilings of the children of Am-ed them: but they rose early, and cormon, whereby they have reproached my rupted all their doings. people, and magnified themselves against 8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith their border. the LORD, until the day that I rise up to

9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of the prey: for my determination is to hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall gather the nations, that I may assemble be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine inas Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, dignation, even all my fierce anger: for and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation: all the earth shall be devoured with the the residue of my people shall spoil them, fire of my jealousy.

and the remnant of my people shall possess 9 For then will I turn to the people a them. pure language, that they may all call upon 10 This shall they have for their pride, the name of the LORD, to serve him with because they have reproached and magni- one consent. fied themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them; dispersed, shall bring mine offering. for he will famish all the gods of the earth; 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamand men shall worship him, every one from ed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast his place, even all the isles of the heathen. transgressed against me: for then I will 12 ¶ Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be take away out of the midst of thee them slain by my sword. that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no 13 And he will stretch out his hand more be haughty because of my holy against the north, and destroy Assyria; mountain. and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: 13 The remnant of Israel shall not do both the cormorant and the bittern shall iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: shall sing in the windows; desolation shall for they shall feed and lie down, and none be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover shall make them afraid.

the cedar work.

14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. and there is none besides me: how is she 15 The LORD hath taken away thy become a desolation, a place for beasts to judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: lie down in! every one that passeth by the King of Israel, even the LORD, is in her shall hiss, and wag his hand. the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

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CHAP. III.

WO to her that is filthy and polluted, 16 In that day it shall be said to Jeru

to the oppressing city!

salem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let 2 She obeyed not the voice; she re- not thine hands be slack. ceived not correction; she trusted not in 17 The LORD thy God in the midst of the LORD; she drew not near to her God. thee is mighty; he will save, he will re3 Her princes within her are roaring joice over thee with joy; he will rest in lions; her judges are evening wolves; his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

Haggai reproves the people.

CHAP. I, II.

He incites them to work.

18 I will gather them that are sorrow-in every land where they have been put ful for the solemn assembly, who are of to shame.

thee, to whom the reproach of it was a 20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I

burden.

19 Behold, at that time I will undo all will make you a name and a praise among that afflict thee: and I will save her that all people of the earth, when I turn back halteth, and gather her that was driven your captivity before your eyes, saith the out; and I will get them praise and fame LORD.

CHAP. I.

1 HAGGAI.

13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's mesN the second year of Darius the king, in senger in the LORD's message unto the

I the siset month, in the first day of the people, saying, I am with you, saith the

14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit

month, came the word of the LORD by LORD. Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, goverJoshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, nor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the saying, son of Josedech, the high priest, and the 2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, spirit of all the remnant of the people; saying, This people say, The time is not and they came and did work in the house come, the time that the LORD's house of the LORD of hosts, their God, should be built.

3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

CHAP. II.

the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua clothe you, but there is none warm; and the son of Josedech the high priest, and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to to the residue of the people, saying, put it into a bag with holes.

3 Who is left among you that saw this

7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Con- house in her first glory? and how do ye sider your ways. see it now? is it not in your eyes in com

8 Go up to the mountain, and bring parison of it as nothing? wood, and build the house; and I will take 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, the LORD. son of Josedech the high priest; and be 9 Ye looked for much, and lo, it came strong, all ye people of the land, saith the to little; and when ye brought it home, I LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of the LORD of hosts:

hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, 5 According to the word that I coveand ye run every man unto his own house. nanted with you when ye came out of 10 Therefore the heaven over you is Egypt, so mySpirit remaineth among you; stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed fear ye not. from her fruit.

6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet

11 And I called for a drought upon the once, it is a little while, and I will shake land, and upon the mountains, and upon the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, the corn, and upon the new wine, and and the dry land; upon the oil, and upon that which the 7 And I will shake all nations, and the ground bringeth forth, and upon mea, and Desire of all nations shall come: and I will upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the fill this house with glory, saith the LORD hands. of hosts.

12 T Then Zerubbabel the son of Sheal- 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is tiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the mine, saith the LORD of hosts. bigh priest, with all the remnant of the 9 The glory of this latter house shall be people, obeyed the voice of the LORD greater than of the former, saith the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the of hosts: and in this place will I give prophet, as the LORD their God had sent peace, saith the LORD of hosts. him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

10 ¶ In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of

God's promise to Zerubbabel.

ZECHARIAH.

The vision of the horses.

Darius, came the word of the LORD by your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Haggai the prophet, saying, the LORD.

Ask

11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, 18 Consider now from this day and upnow the priests concerning the law, say- ward, from the four and twentieth day of ing, the ninth month, even from the day that the 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, his garment, and with his skirt do touch consider it. bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as meat, shall it be holy? And the priests yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the answered and said, No. pomegranate, and the olive-tree, hath not 13 Then said Haggai, If one that is un-brought forth: from this day will I bless clean by a dead body touch any of these, you. shall it be unclean? And the priests an- 20 And again the word of the LORD swered and said, It shall be unclean. came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

22 And I will overthrow the throne of 15 And now, I pray you, consider from kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength this day and upward, from before a stone of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will was laid upon a stone in the temple of the overthrow the chariots, and those that ride LORD: in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

23 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, 17 I smote you with blasting and with and will make thee as a signet; for I have mildew and with hail in all the labours of chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.

unto Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,,

2 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

3 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

81 saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

9 Then said I, O my Lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.

4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom 10 And the man that stood among the the former prophets have cried, saying, myrtle-trees answered and said, These Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk now from your evil ways, and from your to and fro through the earth. evil doings: but they did not hear, nor 11 And they answered the angel of the hearken unto me, saith the LORD. LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees,

5 Your fathers, where are they? and and said, We have walked to and fro the prophets, do they live for ever? through the earth, and behold, all the earth.

6 But my words and my statutes, which sitteth still, and is at rest. I commanded my servants the prophets, 12 Then the angel of the LORD andid they not take hold of your fathers?swered and said, O LORD of hosts, how and they returned and said, Like as the long wilt thou not have mercy on JerusaLORD of hosts thought to do unto us, ac- lem and on the cities of Judah, against cording to our ways, and according to our which thou hast had indignation these doings, so hath he dealt with us.

threescore and ten years?

7 Upon the four and twentieth day 13 And the LORD answered the angel of the eleventh month, which is the month that talked with me with good words and Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came comfortable words. the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the

14 So the angel that communed with

The redemption of Zion.

CHAP. II, III, IV.

Restoration of the church. me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus their servants: and ye shall know that the saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for LORD of hosts hath sent me. Jerusalem and for Zion with a great 10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of jealousy. Zion: for lo, I come, and I will dwell in 15 And I am very sore displeased with the midst of thee, saith the LORD. the heathen that are at ease: for I was but 11 And many nations shall be joined to a little displeased, and they helped for- the LORD in that day, and shall be my ward the affliction. people: and I will dwell in the midst of

16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my of hosts hath sent me unto thee. house shall be built in it, saith the LORD 12 And the LORD shall inherit Judah of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth his portion in the holy land, and shall upon Jerusalem. choose Jerusalem again.

17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the 13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD of hosts; My cities through pros- LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy perity shall yet be spread abroad; and habitation. the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

18 T Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

CHAP. III.

AND he showed me Joshua the high

priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of

20 And the LORD shewed me four car- the fire? penters.

3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy 21 Then said I, What come these to garments, and stood before the angel. do? And he spake, saying, These are the 4 And he answered and spake unto those horns which have scattered Judah, so that that stood before him, saying, Take away no man did lift up his head: but these are the filthy garments from him. And unto come to fray them, to cast out the horns of him he said, Behold, I have caused thine the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn iniquity to pass from thee, and I will over the land of Judah to scatter it. clothe thee with change of raiment. 5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre T LIFTED up mine eyes again, and upon his head. So they set a fair mitre looked, and behold a man with a mea- upon his head, and clothed him with suring line in his hand. garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

CHAP. II.

6 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,

2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof. 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou 3 And behold, the angel that talked wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt with me went forth, and another angel keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge went out to meet him, my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:

8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: 5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto for they are men wondered at: for beher a wall of fire round about, and will be hold, I will bring forth my servant The the glory in the midst of her. BRANCH.

6 T Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from 9 For behold the stone that I have laid the land of the north, saith the LORD: for before Joshua; upon one stone shall be I have spread you abroad as the four seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, 7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest and I will remove the iniquity of that land with the daughter of Babylon. in one day.

8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts: 10 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, After the glory hath he sent me unto the shall ye call every man his neighbour nations which spoiled you: for he that under the vine and under the fig-tree. toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his

eye.

AND

CHAP. IV..

9 For behold, I will shake mine hand ND the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man upon them, and they shall be a spoil to that is wakened out of his sleep,

The golden candlestick.

ZECHARIAH.

The ruin of Babylon. 2 And said unto me, What seest thou ? it; and every one that sweareth shall be And I said, I have looked, and behold a cut off as on that side, according to it. candlestick, all of gold, with a bowl upon 4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, hosts, and it shall enter into the house of and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which the thief, and into the house of him that are upon the top thereof: sweareth falsely by my name: and it 3 And two olive-trees by it, one upon shall remain in the midst of his house, and the right side of the bowl, and the other shall consume it with the timber thereof upon the left side thereof. and the stones thereof.

4 So I answered and spake to the angel 5 T Then the angel that talked with me that talked with me, saying, What are went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now these, my lord? thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth

6 And I said, What is it? And he said,

5 Then the angel that talked with me forth. answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? and I said, No, my This is an ephah that goeth forth. He lord. said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

7 And behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

8 And he said, This is wickedness. 7 Who art thou, O great mountain? be- And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; fore Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he cast the weight of lead upon the and he shall bring forth the headstone mouth thereof. thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace, unto it.

9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, there came out two wo8 Moreover the word of the LORD came men, and the wind was in their wings; unto me, saying, for they had wings like the wings of a 9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid stork: and they lifted up the ephah bethe foundation of this house; his hands tween the earth and the heaven. shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that 10 Then said I to the angel that talkthe LORD of hosts hath sent me unto ed with me, Whither do these bear the you.

ephah?

10 For who hath despised the day of 11 And he said unto me, To build it an small things? for they shall rejoice, and house in the land of Shinar: and it shall shall see the plummet in the hand of Ze- be established, and set there upon her rubbabel with those seven; they are the own base. eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro

through the whole earth.

CHAP. VI.

ND I turned, and lifted up mine eyes,

11 ¶ Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive-trees upon four chariots out from between two mounthe right side of the candlestick and upon tains; and the mountains were mountains the left side thereof? of brass.

12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.

roll.

2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; 3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled and bay horses.

4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?

5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing beHEN I turned, and lifted up mine fore the LORD of all the earth. are therein

CHAP. V.

go forth into the north country; and the 2 And he said unto me; What seest white go forth after them; and the grizzled thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; go forth towards the south country. the length thereof is twenty cubits, and 7 And the bay went forth, and sought to the breadth thereof ten cubits. go that they might walk to and fro through

3 Then said he unto me, This is the the earth: and he said, Get you hence, curse that goeth forth over the face of the walk to and fro through the earth. So whole earth: for every one that stealeth they walked to and fro through the earth. shall be cut off as on this side, according to 8 Then cried he upon me, and spake