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God's severe judgment against CHAP. I, II.

Judah for sundry sins. out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their 17 ¶ Although the fig-tree shall not rejoicing was as to devour the poor se- blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; cretly. the labour of the olive shall fail, and the 15 Thou didst walk through the sea fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall with thy horses, through the heap of great be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

waters.

16 When I heard, my belly trembled; 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness will joy in the God of my salvation. entered into my bones, and I trembled in 19 The LORD God is my strength, and myself, that I might rest in the day of he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and trouble: when he cometh up unto the he will make me to walk upon my high people, he will invade them with his places. To the chief singer on my stringed troops. instruments.

CHAP. I.

I ZEPHANIAH.

tled on their lees: that say in their heart, THE word of the LORD which came The LORD will not do good, neither will unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the he do evil.

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son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the 13 Therefore,their goods shall become son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the a booty, and their houses a desolation : son of Amon, king of Judah. they shall also build houses, but not inha

2 I will utterly consume all things from bit them; and they shall plant vineyards, off the land, saith the LORD. but not drink the wine thereof. 3 I will consume man and beast; I will 14 The great day of the LORD is near, consume the fowls of the heaven, and the it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling-blocks voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty with the wicked; and I will cut off man man shall cry there bitterly. from off the land, saith the Lord. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of

4 I will also stretch out my hand upon trouble and distress, a day of wasteness Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jeru- and desolation, a day of darkness and salem; and I will cut off the remnant of gloominess, a day of clouds and thick Baal from this place, and the name of the darkness, Chemarims with the priests;

16 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the

5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the house-tops; and them high towers. that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, be6 And them that are turned back from cause they have sinned against the LORD: the LORD; and those that have not sought and their blood shall be poured out as dust, the LORD, nor inquired for him. and their flesh as the dung.

7 Hold thy peace at the presence of the 18 Neither their silver nor their gold Lord GoD: for the day of the LORD is at shall be able to deliver them in the day of hand for the LORD hath prepared a sa- the LORD's wrath; but the whole land crifice, he hath bid his guests. shall be devoured by the fire of his jeal

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8 And it shall come to pass in the day of ousy: for he shall make even a speedy the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the riddance of all them that dwell in the princes, and the king's children, and all land. such as are clothed with strange apparel.

CHAP. II.

9 In the same day also will I punish all gather together, O nation not deATHER yourselves together, yea,

those that leap on the threshold, which

fill their masters' houses with violence and sired; deceit.

2 Before the decree bring forth, before

10 And it shall come to pass in that the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce day, saith the LORD, that there shall be anger of the LORD come upon you, before the noise of a cry from the fish-gate, and the day of the LORD's anger come upon a howling from the second, and a great you. crashing from the hills.

3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the

11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, earth, which have wrought his judgment; for all the merchant people are cut down; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it all they that bear silver are cut off. may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.

12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are set

4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive

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Judgment of the Philistines, &c. ZEPHANIAH.

out Ashdod at the noon-day, and Ekron they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
The restoration of Israel.
shall be rooted up.
5 Wo unto the inhabitants of the sea rous persons: her priests have polluted the
4 Her prophets are light and treache-
coasts, the nation of the Cherethites! the sanctuary, they have done violence to the
word of the LORD is against you; O Ca-law.
Daan, the land of the Philistines, I will
even destroy thee, that there shall be no of; he will not do iniquity: every morning
5 The just LORD is in the midst there-
inhabitant.
6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings, faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no
doth he bring his judgment to light, he
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 turn away their captivity.

7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou 8 ¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, should not be cut off, howsoever I punishwilt receive instruction; so their dwelling and 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 their border.

8 T Therefore, wait ye upon me, saith 9 Therefore, as I live, saith the LORD of the prey: for my determination is to the LORD, until the day that I rise up 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

them.

10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

9 For then will I turn to the people a the name of the LORD, to serve him with pure language, that they may all call upon one consent.

10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia 11 The LORD will be terrible unto them; dispersed, shall bring mine offering. my suppliants, even the daughter of my for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from ed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamhis 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. 13 And he will stretch out his hand more be haughty because of my holy that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

mountain.

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

14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shali iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a 13 The remnant of Israel shall not do 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.

and there is none besides me: how is she

14 T 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. become a desolation, a place for beasts to judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: 15 The LORD hath taken away thy 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.

CHAP. III.

W to the oppressing city!

O to her that is filthy and polluted,

16 In that day it shall be said to Jeru2 She obeyed not the voice; she re- not thy hands be slack. salem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let ceived not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. thee is mighty; he will save, he will re17 The LORD thy God in the midst of 3 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.

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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.

THAGGAI

13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's mesN the second year of Darius the king, in senger in the LORD's message unto the the sixth month, in the first day of the people, saying, I am with you, saith the month, came the word of the LORD by LORD. Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the 14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit 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 Lase hosts; Consider your ways.

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

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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 my 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 men, 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.

8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

12 ¶ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high 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 10 In the four and twentieth day of LORD. 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.

11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ask 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 answered and said, It shall be unclean.

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.

20 T And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

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.

CHAP. I.

¶ ZECHARIAH.

In
FN the eighth month, in the second year

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,

8 I 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 hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

6 But, my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, 12 T 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 Jerusa LORD 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 Zioa.

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

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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.

CHAP. III.

ND he shewed me Joshua the high

the LORD, and Satan standing at his right

19 And I said unto the angel that talk-hand to resist him. ed with me, What be these? And he an- 2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The swered me, These are the horns which LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jeru- LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke salem. 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.

CHAP. II.

LIFTED up mine eyes again,

5 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre

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

2 Then said I, Whither goest thou? stood by. And he said unto me, To measure Jerusa- 6 And the angel of the LORD protested lem, to see what is the breadth thereof, unto Joshua, saying, 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:

5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for behold, I will bring forth my servant The 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, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest

with the daughter of Babylon.

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.

CHAP. IV.

9 For behold, I will shake my hand AND 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,

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