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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 that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

5 T Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth

5 Then the angel that talked with me forth. answered and said unto me, Knowest thou 6 And I said, What is it? And he said, not what these be? and I said, No, my This is an ephah that goeth forth. He lord. said moreover, This is their resemblance 6 Then he answered and spake unto through all the earth. 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 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace,unto it.

8 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; 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 a 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.

11 T Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

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.

CHAP. V.

THEN I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying

roll.

CHAP. VI.

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 of brass.

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 before the Lord of all the earth.

6 The black horses which are there in 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 toward 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

Christ the Branch.

CHAP. VII, VIII.

Cause of the captivity.

unto me, saying, Behold, these that go to- 8 T And the word of the LORD came ward the north country have quieted my unto Zechariah, saying, spirit in the north country.

9 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

9 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

10 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the which are come from Babylon, and come fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and thou the same day, and go into the house let none of you imagine evil against his of Josiah the son of Zephaniah; brother in your heart.

11 Then take silver and gold, and 11 But they refused to hearken, and make crowns, and set them upon the head pulled away the shoulder, and stopped of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high their ears, that they should not hear. priest; 12 Yea, they made their hearts as an

12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus adamant stone, lest they should hear the speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, law, and the words which the LORD of Behold the man whose name is The hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of prophets; therefore came a great wrath his place, and he shall build the temple of from the LORD of hosts.

the LORD:

13 Therefore it is come to pass, that as 13 Even he shall build the temple of he cried, and they would not hear; so they the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, cried, and I would not hear, saith the and shall sit and rule upon his throne: and LORD of hosts:

he shall be a priest upon his throne: and 14 But I scattered them with a whirlthe counsel of peace shall be between wind among all the nations whom they them both. knew not. Thus the land was desolate

14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, after them, that no man passed through nor and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to returned: for they laid the pleasant land Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial desolate.

in the temple of the LORD.

CHAP. VIII.

came to me, saying,

15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and AGAIN the word of the LORD of hosts ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was sent me unto you. And this shall come to jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice was jealous for her with great fury. of the LORD your God.

CHAP. VII.

ND it came to pass in the fourth year

3 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called, LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth LORD of hosts, The holy mountain. day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu; 4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There 2 When they had sent unto the house of shall yet old men and old women dwell in God, Sherezer and Regem-melech, and the streets of Jerusalem, and every man their men, to pray before the LORD, with his staff in his hand for very age. 3 And to speak unto the priests which 5 And the streets of the city shall be were in the house of the LORD of hosts, full of boys and girls playing in the streets and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep thereof. in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

4 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,

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

5 Speak unto all the people of the land, of hosts. and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted 7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Beand mourned in the fifth and seventh hold, I will save my people from the east month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

6 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

country, and from the west country;

8 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.

7 Should ye not hear the words which 9 T Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let the LORD hath cried by the former pro- your hands be strong, ye that hear in these phets when Jerusalem was inhabited and days these words by the mouth of the proin prosperity, and the cities thereof round phets, which were in the day that the about her, when men inhabited the south foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts and the plain? was laid, that the temple might be built.

Encouraged to build the temple. ZECHARIAH.

Zion is exhorted to rejoice.

10 For before these days there was no eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, hire for man, nor any hire for beast; nei- shall be toward the LORD.

ther was there any peace to him that went 2 And Hamath also shall border thereout or came in because of the affliction: by; Tyrus and Zidon, though it be very for I set all men every one against his wise.

neighbour.

11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.

3 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the 5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

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 save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

15 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

6 Ánd a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

7 And I will take away his 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 a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

8 And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that 16 ¶ These are the things that ye shall returneth and no oppressor shall pass do; Speak ye every man the truth to his through them any more: for now have I neighbour; execute the judgment of truth seen with mine eyes. and peace in your gates:

9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; 17 And let none of you imagine evil in shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your hearts against his neighbour; and thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and love no false oath: for all these are things having salvation; lowly, and riding upon that I hate, saith the LORD. an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, 19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The and the battle-bow shall be cut off: and fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the he shall speak peace unto the heathen: fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the and his dominion shall be from sea even to fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of sea, and from the river even to the ends of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful the earth.

18 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,

feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. 11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy 20 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: It covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners shall yet come to pass, that there shall out of the pit wherein is no water. come people, and the inhabitants of many 12 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

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 LORD of hosts: I will go also.

13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons. O 22 Yea, many people and strong nations Greece, and made thee as the sword of a shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in mighty man. Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. 14 And the LORD shall be seen over 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In them, and his arrow shall go forth as the those days it shall come to pass, that ten lightning: and the Lord GoD shall blow men shall take hold, out of all languages the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the nations, even shall take hold of the of the south. skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and subdue with sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and HE burden of the word of the LORD they shall be filled like bowls, and as the in the land of Hadrach, and Damas-corners of the altar.

THE

CHAP. IX.

cus shall be the rest thereof: when the 16 And the LORD their God shall save

Judah's restoration foretold.

CHAP. X, XI. The destruction of Jerusalem.

them in that day as the flock of his peo- 12 And I will strengthen them in the ple: for they shall be as the stones of a LORD; and they shall walk up and down crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his in his name, saith the LORD.

land.

17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

CHAP. XI.

PEN thy doors, O Lebanon, that the may devour thy cedars.

fire

2 Howl, fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the Skye of the in, so the LORD shall SK ye of the LORD rain in the time vintage is come down.

CHAP. X.

make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

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4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: there- 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold fore they went their way as a flock, they themselves not guilty: and they that sell were troubled because there was no shep-them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am herd. rich: and their own shepherds pity them

3 Mine anger was kindled against the not. shepherds, and I punished the goats: for 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitthe LORD of hosts hath visited his flock ants of the land, saith the LORD: but lo, the house of Judah, and hath made them I will deliver the men every one into his as his goodly horse in the battle. neighbour's hand, and into the hand of 4 Out of him came forth the corner, his king: and they shall smite the land, out of him the nail, out of him the battle- and out of their hand I will not deliver bow, out of him every oppressor toge-them. ther.

7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and

5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with I fed the flock. them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

6 And 1 will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Jo- 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that seph, and I will bring them again to place that dieth, let it die; and that that is to them; for I have mercy upon them and be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the they shall be as though I had not cast them rest eat, every one the flesh of another. off: for I am the LORD 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 LORD.

8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

10 T And 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 me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, for9 And I will sow them among the peo-bear. So they weighed for my price ple: and they shall remember me in far thirty pieces of silver. countries; and they shall live with their 13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it children, and turn again. unto the potter: a goodly price that I was 10 I will bring them again also out of prized at of them. And I took the thirty the land of Egypt, and gather them out of pieces of silver, and cast them to the pot Assyria; and I will bring them into the ter in the house of the LORD. land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, shall not be found for them. even Bands, that I might break the bro

11 And he shall pass through the sea therhood between Judah and Israel. with affliction, and shall smite the waves 15 And the LORD said unto me, Take in the sea, and all the deeps of the river unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shall dry up and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

shepherd.

16 For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be

Of Judah's restoration.

ZECHARIAH.

cut off, neither shall seek the young_one,
The death of Christ.
nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning
11 In that day shall there be a great
that standeth still: but he shall eat the of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megid-
flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in don.
pieces.
17 Wo to the idol shepherd that leaveth mily apart; the family of the house of
12 And the land shall mourn, every fa-
the flock the sword shall be upon his David apart, and the wives apart; the
arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall family of the house of Nathan apart, and
be clean dried up, and his right eye shall their wives apart;
be utterly darkened.

CHAP. XII.

THE burden of the word of the LORD

13 The family of the house of Levi apart,and their wives apart; the family of

Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

for Israel, saith the LORD, which
stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the family apart, and their wives apart.
foundation of the earth, and formeth the
spirit of man within him.

14 All the families that remain, every

2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup

IN

CHAP. XIII.

N that day there shall be a fountain of trembling unto all the people round the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and opened to the house of David and to about, when they shall be in the siege for uncleanness. both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

2 And it shall come to pass in that

3 And in that day will I make Je-day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will rusalem a burdensome stone for all peo-cut off the names of the idols out of the ple: all that burden themselves with it land, and they shall no more be rememshall be cut in pieces, though all the people bered: and also I will cause the prophets of the earth be gathered together against it. and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and any shall yet prophesy, then his father 3 And it shall come to pass, that when his rider with madness: and I will open and his mother that begat him shall say mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou will smite every horse of the people with speakest lies in the name of the LORD. blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah shall say him shall thrust him through when he pro and his father and his mother that begat in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusa-phesieth. lem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

4 And it shall come to pass in that day, 6 T In that day will I make the govern- one of his vision, when he hath prophethat the prophets shall be ashamed every ors of Judah like a hearth of fire among sied; neither shall they wear a rough garthe wood, and like a torch of fire in a ment to deceive: sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

7 The 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.

am a husbandman; for man taught me to 5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I keep cattle from my youth.

6 And one shall say unto him, What are shall answer, Those with which I was these wounds in thy hands? Then he wounded in the house of my friends.

herd, and against the man that is my fel7¶ Awake, O sword, against my Sheplow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the

8 In that day shall the LORD defend the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scatterinhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is ed; and I will turn my hand upon the feeble among them at that day shall be as little ones. David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

the land, saith the LORD, two parts there in
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all
be left therein.
shall be cut off and die; but the third shall

9 And I will bring the third part through 10 And I will pour upon the house of refined, and will try them as gold is tried: the fire, and will refine them as silver is David, and upon the inhabitants of Jeru- they shall call on my name, and I will salem, the spirit of grace and of suppli- hear them: I will say, It is my people, cations: and they shall look upon me whom and they shall say, The LORD is my God. they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, CHAP. XIV.

and shall be in bitterness for him, as one BEHOLD, the day of the LORD cometh,

that is in bitterness for his first-born.

and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

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