AFV2020 - Zechariah

Chapter 1

1:1  In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

1:2  "The LORD has been very angry with your fathers.

1:3  Therefore you say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Return to Me," says the LORD of hosts, "and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts.

1:4  "Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have proclaimed to them, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Turn now from your evil ways and your evil doings." ' But they did not hearken, nor attend to Me," says the LORD.

1:5  "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

1:6  But My words and My statutes which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they returned and said, 'As the LORD of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so He has done with us.' ”

1:7  On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, it is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

1:8  "I watched by night. And behold! A man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees in the ravine. And behind him were red, speckled and white horses."

1:9  Then I said, "O my lord, what are these?" And the angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what these are."

1:10  And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are those whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro through the earth."

1:11  And they answered the angel of the LORD who stood among the myrtle trees, and said, "We have walked to and fro through the earth, and behold, all the earth sits still and is at peace."

1:12  Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, "O LORD of hosts, how long will You not have mercy upon Jerusalem and upon the cities of Judah against which You have cursed these seventy years?"

1:13  And the LORD answered the angel who talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

1:14  So the angel who talked with me said to me, "Cry aloud, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

1:15  And with great anger I am angry at the heathen that are at ease—in that I was but a little angry, but they furthered the affliction."

1:16  Therefore thus says the LORD, "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of hosts. "And a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem." '

1:17  Cry aloud again, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "My cities shall yet overflow through prosperity, and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.”

1:18  Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, four horns!

1:19  And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" And he answered me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."

1:20  And the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

1:21  And I said, "What are these coming to do?" And He spoke, saying, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head. But these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns over the land of Judah to scatter it."

Chapter 2

2:1  I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold! A man with a measuring line in his hand.

2:2  Then I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length."

2:3  And behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him.

2:4  And he said to him, "Run, speak to this young man, saying, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited, as towns without walls for the multitude of men and livestock in her midst.

2:5  And I,' says the LORD, 'will be to her a wall of fire all around, and will be the glory in her midst.' ”

2:6  "Ho! Ho! Flee then from the land of the north," says the LORD, "for I have scattered you as the four winds of the heavens," says the LORD.

2:7  "Ho! O Zion, escape, you who live with the daughter of Babylon."

2:8  For thus says the LORD of hosts; "After His glory, He sent me unto the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye,

2:9  For behold, I will shake My hand over them, and they shall be a prize for their servants. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.

2:10  Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for lo, I come, and I will dwell in your midst," says the LORD.

2:11  "And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be My people; and I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

2:12  And the LORD shall possess Judah, His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

2:13  Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for He has risen out of His holy dwelling place."

Chapter 3

3:1  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.

3:2  And the LORD said to Satan, "May the LORD rebuke you, Satan! May even the LORD Who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked out of the fire?"

3:3  Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

3:4  And He answered and spoke to those who stood before him, saying, "Take the filthy garments from off him." And to him He said, "Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass from you, and I will clothe you with ceremonial robes."

3:5  And I said, "Let them set a clean mitre on his head." And they set a clean mitre on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

3:6  And the angel of the LORD charged Joshua, saying,

3:7  "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'If you will walk in My ways, and if you will keep My charge, then you shall also judge My house, and shall also keep My courts, and I will give you places to walk among these who stand by.

3:8  Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men wondered at, for behold, I will bring forth My Servant the Branch!

3:9  For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua: On one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave its engraving upon it,' says the LORD of hosts, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

3:10  In that day,' says the LORD of hosts, 'you shall call, each man to his neighbor, to sit under the vine and under the fig tree.' ”

Chapter 4

4:1  And the angel that talked with me came again and awakened me, as a man that is awakened out of his sleep.

4:2  And he said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see, and behold, a lampstand, all of it gold, and a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps upon it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps on its top;

4:3  And two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it."

4:4  And I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

4:5  Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, "Do you know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."

4:6  Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, "This is the Word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts.

4:7  'Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain; and he shall bring forth the head stone with shoutings, "Grace! Grace unto it!"

4:8  And the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,

4:9  "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it." And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.

4:10  "For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of the LORD which run to and fro through the whole earth."

4:11  And I answered and said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on its left side?"

4:12  And I answered again and said to him, "What are the two olive branches beside the two golden pipes, emptying the golden oil out of themselves?"

4:13  And he answered me and said, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord."

4:14  And he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the LORD of the whole earth."

Chapter 5

5:1  Then I again lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold! A flying scroll.

5:2  And he said to me, "What do you see?" And I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits."

5:3  And he said to me, "This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it."

5:4  "I will bring it forth," says the LORD of hosts; "and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by My name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall devour it, and its timber and its stones."

5:5  Then the angel who talked with me went forth and said to me, "Now lift up your eyes and see what this is that goes forth."

5:6  And I said, "What is it?" And he said, "This is the measuring container that goes forth." And moreover he said, "This is their resemblance throughout all the earth."

5:7  And behold, a round lead cover was lifted up, and a woman was sitting upon the measuring container.

5:8  And he said, "This is wickedness." And he threw her down into the midst of the measuring container. And he thrust down the round lead cover over its opening.

5:9  And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, two women came out. And the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the measuring container between the earth and the heavens.

5:10  And I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are they going with the measuring container?"

5:11  And he said to me, "To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared she shall be set there in her own place."

Chapter 6

6:1  And I turned and lifted up my eyes and looked. And behold! Four chariots were coming from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze.

6:2  The first chariot had red horses; and the second chariot had black horses;

6:3  And in the third chariot had white horses; and in the fourth chariot had dappled horses and strong ones.

6:4  And I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

6:5  And the angel answered and said to me, "These are the four spirits of the heavens who go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

6:6  The black horses in it go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the dappled go forth to a south country."

6:7  And the strong ones went forth and were anxious to go, so that they might walk to and fro through the earth. And he said, "Go! Walk to and fro through the earth." So they walked to and fro through the earth.

6:8  And He cried to me and spoke to me, saying, "Behold, these who go toward the north country have caused My Spirit to rest in the north country."

6:9  And the Word of the LORD came to me saying,

6:10  "Take from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, from the exiles who have come from Babylon; and in that same day you go and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah.

6:11  And take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

6:12  And speak to him, saying, 'Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, "Behold the Man whose name is The BRANCH! And He shall grow up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of the LORD.

6:13  Even He shall build the temple of the LORD; and He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon His throne. And He shall be a priest upon His throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both." '

6:14  And the crowns shall be for a memorial in the temple of the LORD to Helem and to Tobijah and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah.

6:15  And the ones who are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD." And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Chapter 7

7:1  And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Darius, the Word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, in Chislev.

7:2  And Sherezer and Regem-Melech and his men had been sent to the house of God, to pray before the LORD,

7:3  And to speak to the priests who were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month and fast, separating myself, as I have done these many years?"

7:4  And came the Word of the LORD of hosts to me, saying,

7:5  "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?

7:6  And when you ate, and when you drank, did you not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

7:7  Are not these the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, and her cities all around her, and the south and the plain were inhabited?' ”

7:8  And the Word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,

7:9  "Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying, 'Judge true judgment, and show mercy and compassion every man to his brother.

7:10  And do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor. And do not imagine evil in your heart, against your brother.'

7:11  But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears against hearing.

7:12  And they made their hearts adamant stone against hearing the law and the words which the LORD of hosts has sent through His Spirit, by the former prophets. And therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

7:13  And it will be, as He called, and they did not hear, so when they called, and I did not hear," says the LORD of hosts.

7:14  "But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they did not know. And thus the land has been desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate."

Chapter 8

8:1  And the Word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

8:2  "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.'

8:3  Thus says the LORD, 'I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.'

8:4  Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'There shall yet be old men and old women sitting in the streets of Jerusalem, and each man with his staff in his hand because of their great age.

8:5  And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.'

8:6  Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, will it not also be marvelous in My eyes?' says the LORD of hosts.

8:7  Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Behold, I will save My people from the east country, and from the west country.

8:8  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.'

8:9  Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, that in the day the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts is laid, the temple is to be built,

8:10  For before these days there was no hire for man, nor was there hire for beast; and there was no peace to him from the adversary who went out or came in, for I did set all men every one against his neighbor.

8:11  But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days,' says the LORD of hosts,

8:12  'For they shall sow in peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

8:13  And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, but let your hands be strong.'

8:14  For thus says the LORD of hosts, 'As I thought to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath,' says the LORD of hosts, 'and I did not repent;

8:15  So again I have thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Fear not.

8:16  These are the things that you shall do. Each man speak the truth to his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates.

8:17  And let no one imagine evil in your heart against his neighbor; and do not love a false oath, for all these are things that I hate,' says the LORD."

8:18  And the Word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

8:19  "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth month, and the fast of the seventh month, and the fast of the tenth month, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.'

8:20  Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people and inhabitants of many cities.

8:21  And the residents of one shall go to another, saying, "Let us go at once to pray before the face of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will go also."

8:22  And many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to pray before the face of the LORD.'

8:23  Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men, out of all languages of the nations, shall take hold, and will seize the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying, "We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you."

Chapter 9

9:1  The burden of the Word of the LORD against the land of Hadrach, and its resting place, Damascus (when the eyes of man, and all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD);

9:2  And Hamath also borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

9:3  And Tyre shall build herself a stronghold, and shall heap up silver like the dust, and gold like the mud of the streets;

9:4  Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and He will strike her power in the sea, and she shall be burned up with fire.

9:5  Ashkelon shall see and be afraid; Gaza also shall see it and writhe in anguish; and Ekron shall be ashamed for her hope. And the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

9:6  "And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

9:7  And I will take away the blood from out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth. But the remnant, even they shall be for our God. And he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite.

9:8  And I will camp around My house because of the army, because of him who passed by, and because of him who returns. And no tyrant shall pass through them any more, for now I have seen with My eyes.

9:9  Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King comes to you. He is triumphant and victorious, yet meek and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

9:10  And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem. And the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace to the nations; and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

9:11  You also, by the blood of your covenant I have freed your prisoners out of the pit in which there is no water.

9:12  Turn to the stronghold, prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I shall restore double to you,

9:13  For I bent Judah for me and I filled the bow with Ephraim, and I will raise up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you as the sword of a mighty man."

9:14  And the LORD shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth like the lightning; and the Lord GOD shall blow the ram's horn, and shall go out with the whirlwinds from the south.

9:15  The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour and subdue with slingstones. And they shall drink and be boisterous, as through wine. And they shall be filled like a bowl, and like the corners of the altar.

9:16  And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of His people; for they are as stones of a crown, lifted up as a banner over His land,

9:17  For how great is its goodness and how great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Chapter 10

10:1  Ask rain from the LORD in the time of the latter rain; the LORD Who makes storm clouds, and gives them showers of rain, and to every one vegetation in the field,

10:2  For the household idols speak lawlessness, and the diviners have seen a lie and have told false dreams. They comfort in vain; therefore they wandered like sheep; they were afflicted because there was no shepherd.

10:3  "My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for the LORD of hosts has visited His flock, the house of Judah, and has made them as His beautiful horse in battle.

10:4  Out of them came forth the cornerstone; out of them the tent peg; out of them the battle bow; out of them every master together.

10:5  And they shall be like mighty ones who trample down their enemies in the mud of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall make the riders on horses ashamed.

10:6  And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will return to save them; for I have mercy upon them. And they shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I am the LORD their God, and I will answer them.

10:7  And Ephraim shall be like a mighty one, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine. And their children shall see and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.

10:8  I will signal for them and gather them; for I have redeemed them. And they shall increase as they formerly increased.

10:9  And I will sow them among the people, and they shall remember Me in distant countries; and they shall live with their children and they shall return.

10:10  I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and I will gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; until no more room shall be found for them.

10:11  And they shall pass through the sea of affliction, and shall strike the waves of the sea; and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up. And the pride of Assyria shall be humbled, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away.

10:12  And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in His name," says the LORD.

Chapter 11

11:1  Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that the fire may devour your cedars.

11:2  Howl, fir tree; for the cedar has fallen; because the majestic trees are devastated. Howl, O oaks of Bashan; for the thick forest has come down.

11:3  There is the sound of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is destroyed. There is the sound of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is destroyed,

11:4  For thus says the LORD my God, "Feed the flock of the slaughter,

11:5  Those buying them slaughter them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;' and their shepherds do not pity them,

11:6  For I will no more pity the people of the land," says the LORD; "but lo, I will deliver the men, each one into his neighbor's hand and into his king's hand. And they shall strike the land, and I will not deliver them out of their hand."

11:7  And I fed the flock of slaughter, even the most miserable of the flock. And I took two staffs for myself; the one I called Grace, and the other I called Union. And I fed the flock.

11:8  I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

11:9  And I said, "I will not feed you; that which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off. And those left, let them eat, every one the flesh of another."

11:10  And I took my staff Grace, and broke it apart, to annul my covenant which I had made with all the people.

11:11  And it was annulled in that day; and so the poor of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the Word of the LORD.

11:12  And I said to them, "If it is good, give me my price; and if not, let it go." So they weighed my price—thirty pieces of silver.

11:13  And the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter"—the princely price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

11:14  Then I broke my other staff Union apart, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

11:15  And the LORD said to me, "Take to yourself yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd,

11:16  For lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor will he seek the young, nor will he heal that which is broken, nor will he feed that which stands. But he shall eat the flesh of the fat and break their hoofs in pieces.

11:17  Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword shall be on his arm and on his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened."

Chapter 12

12:1  The burden of the Word of the LORD for Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him,

12:2  "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people all around, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

12:3  And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All who burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the nations of the earth be gathered together against it.

12:4  In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness. And I will open My eyes upon the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the people with blindness.

12:5  And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, 'The people of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.'

12:6  In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire among the sheaves. And they shall devour all the people all around, on the right hand and on the left hand. And Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her place, even in Jerusalem.

12:7  The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the people of Jerusalem may not be magnified above Judah.

12:8  In that day the LORD shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And it shall be, he who is feeble among them at that day shall be like David; and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD before them.

12:9  And it shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

12:10  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the people of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness over Him, as the bitterness over the firstborn.

12:11  In that day shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadad Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.

12:12  And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

12:13  The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

12:14  All the families who remain, every family apart and their wives apart."

Chapter 13

13:1  "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David, and to the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and for uncleanness.

13:2  And it shall be in that day," says the LORD of hosts, "I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more. And also I will cause the lying prophets and the unclean spirits to pass out of the land.

13:3  And it shall be when any shall yet prophesy, his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him then, 'You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of the LORD.' And his father and his mother who gave him birth shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

13:4  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed, each one of his vision, when he prophesies. And they shall not wear a hairy garment in order to deceive.

13:5  But he shall say, 'I am no prophet; I am a man, a tiller of the ground; for a man taught me to be a servant from my youth.'

13:6  And one shall say to him, 'What are these wounds in your hands?' Then he shall answer, 'Those with which I was wounded in the house of those who love me.' ”

13:7  "Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My companion," says the LORD of hosts. "Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn My hand upon the little ones.

13:8  And it shall come to pass in all the land," says the LORD, "two parts in it shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left in it.

13:9  And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call upon My name, and I will answer them; I will say, 'It is My people;' and they shall say, 'The LORD is my God.' ”

Chapter 14

14:1  Behold, the day of the LORD comes, and your spoil shall be divided in your midst,

14:2  "For I will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem; and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women raped. And half of the city shall go into exile, and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city."

14:3  And the LORD shall go out and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.

14:4  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 split in two, from the east and to the west, and make a very great valley. And half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

14:5  "And you shall flee to the valley of My mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah." And the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with You.

14:6  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark.

14:7  And it will be one day which shall be known to the LORD, neither day nor night; but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light.

14:8  And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them shall go toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea. In summer and in winter it shall be.

14:9  And the LORD shall be King over all the earth; in that day there shall be one LORD, and His name shall be one.

14:10  All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. And it shall be raised up and remain in its place, from Benjamin's Gate to the place of the First Gate; to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.

14:11  And they shall dwell in it, and there shall never again be any more utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall dwell safely.

14:12  And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will smite all the people who have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets. And their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

14:13  And it shall be in that day that a great panic from the LORD shall be among them. And they shall each one lay hold of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

14:14  And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations all around shall be gathered—gold, and silver, and clothing in great abundance.

14:15  And likewise shall be the plague of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the donkey, and of all the beasts which shall be in these camps—it shall be as this plague.

14:16  And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

14:17  And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

14:18  And if the family of Egypt that has no rain, does not come up to present themselves, this shall be the plague with which the LORD shall strike the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

14:19  This shall be Egypt's punishment, and the punishment of all the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

14:20  In that day there shall be on the bells of the horses, "HOLINESS TO THE LORD." And the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

14:21  Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts. And all those who sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them. And in that day there shall no longer be merchants in the house of the LORD of hosts.