Zechariah
Chapter One
Zech. 1:1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo saying,
Zech. 1:2 “The LORD was very angry with your fathers.
Zech. 1:3 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Return to me,” declares the LORD of hosts, “that I may return to you,” says the LORD of hosts.
Zech. 1:4 “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.”’ But they did not listen or give heed to me,” declares the LORD.
Zech. 1:5 “As for your fathers, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?
Zech. 1:6 “But did not my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘As the LORD of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so he has done with us.’”’”
Zech. 1:7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the prophet, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, as saying:
Zech. 1:8 I saw at night, [had a vision] and behold, a man [angel] was mounted on a red horse, and he [on the red horse] was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel and white horses behind him.
Zech. 1:9 Then I said, “What are these, my lord [sir]?” And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
Zech. 1:10 And the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered and said, “These are those (angels on horses] whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”
Zech. 1:11 So they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees and said, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and quiet.”
Zech. 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD said, “O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you have been indignant these seventy years?”
Zech. 1:13 The LORD addressed the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.
Zech. 1:14 So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts,“I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion, very jealous.”
Zech. 1:15 But I am greatly angered with the nations who are complacent; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered for themselves the disaster.”
Zech. 1:16 ‘Therefore thus says the LORD, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the LORD of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’
Zech. 1:17 “Again, proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”’”
Zech. 1:18 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, four horns.
Zech. 1:19 So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”
Zech. 1:20 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.
Zech. 1:21 I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it.”
Chapter Two
Zech. 2:1 And I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.
Zech. 2:2 So I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is and how long it is.”
Zech. 2:3 And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming to meet him,
Zech. 2:4 and said to him , “Hurry, tell to that young man [to Zechariah], saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it.
Zech. 2:5 And I myself will be a wall of fire around her,’ declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”
Zech. 2:6 Alas! Alas! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of the heavens,” declares the LORD.
Zech. 2:7 “Alas, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.”
Zech. 2:8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, “After [For the sake of] glory he has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of his eye.
Zech. 2:9 “For behold, I will move my hand over them so that they will be plunder for their slaves. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me.
Zech. 2:10 “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” declares the LORD.
Zech. 2:11 “Many nations will join themselves to the LORD in that day and will become my people. Then I will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Zech. 2:12 “The LORD will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
Zech. 2:13 “Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for He is aroused from his holy dwelling.”
Chapter Three
Zech. 3:1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
Zech. 3:2 The LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?”
Zech. 3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and standing before the angel.
Zech. 3:4 He spoke and said to those who were standing before him, saying, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” Then he said to him, “See, I have taken from upon you your iniquity and will cloth you with festal robes.”
Zech. 3:5 Then I spoke up and said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments, while the angel of the LORD was standing by.
Zech. 3:6 Then the angel of the LORD exhorted Joshua saying,
Zech. 3:7 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘If you will walk in my ways and if you keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give to you goings (access) among these who are standing here.
Zech. 3:8 Listen now, Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who are sitting before you, men who are a symbol, I am going to bring in my servant the Branch.
Zech. 3:9 ‘For behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave an inscription on it,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zech. 3:10 ‘In that day,’ declares the LORD of hosts, ‘everyone will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’”
Chapter Four
Zech. 4:1 Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and roused me, as a man who is awakened from his sleep.
Zech. 4:2 He said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold and a bowl [receptacle] at the top and seven lamps on it with seven and seven [lit.] spouts to the lamps which are on top;
Zech. 4:3 also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side.”
Zech. 4:4 Then I responded and said to the angel who was speaking with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
Zech. 4:5 Then the angel who was speaking with me replied and said to me “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
Zech. 4:6 Then he answered and said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.
Zech. 4:7 ‘What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a level plain; and he will bring forth the capstone with shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’”
Zech. 4:8 Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Zech. 4:9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundations of this house [temple], and his hands will complete it.” Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you [pl.].
Zech. 4:10 “For who has despised the day of small things? But these [seven eyes] will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel—these seven eyes of the LORD which constantly roam throughout the earth.
Zech. 4:11 Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?”
Zech. 4:12 Then I asked a second question and said to him, “What are the two branch extensions of the olive trees which through two golden pipes, which empty from themselves the golden oil ?”
Zech. 4:13 So he answered me, saying, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”
Zech. 4:14 Then he said, “These two are sons of fresh oil who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth.”
Chapter Five
Zech. 5:1 Then I turned and lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, a flying scroll!
Zech. 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.”
Zech. 5:3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who steals, on the one hand, according to it [the curse] will be banished, and everyone who swears falsely, on the other hand, according to it [the curse] will be banished.
Zech. 5:4 “I will make it go out,” declares the LORD of hosts,“and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name [perjurer]; and it will remain within his house and consume it both its timber and its stones.
Zech. 5:5 Then the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, “ Now lift up your eyes and see what this is going out.”
Zech. 5:6 I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ephah going out.” And he added, “This is their appearance in all the land.”
Zech. 5:7 and behold, a talent of lead [lid] was being lifted up; and this woman was sitting inside the ephah.”
Zech. 5:8 Then he said, “This is wickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and throwing the lead weight[ed lid] on its opening.
Zech. 5:9 Then I lifted up my eyes and looked and behold two women with a wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
Zech. 5:10 I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah basket?”
Zech. 5:11 Then he said to me, “To build for her a temple in the land of Shinar [Babylonia]; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own place.”
Chapter Six
Zech.6:1 Then I turned and lifted my eyes and looked, and behold, four chariots were coming forth from between the two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.
Zech.6:2 With the first chariot were red horses, with the second chariot black horses,
Zech.6:3 with the third chariot white horses, and with the fourth chariot strong dappled horses.
Zech.6:4 Then I spoke and said to the angel who was speaking to me,” “What are these, my lord?”
Zech.6:5 The angel answered and said to me, “These are the four winds of heaven, going forth after standing before the Lord of all the earth.
Zech.6:6 The one [chariot] with the black horses is going toward the land of the north and the chariot with the white ones goes forth after them, and the chariot with the dappled ones goes forth to the land of the south.
Zech.6:7 “When the strong ones had gone out, they were eager to go throughout the earth.” And He said, “Go, walk about the earth.” So they patrolled about the earth.
Zech.6:8 Then he called out to me and spoke to me saying, “See, those who are going to the land of the north have quieted my spirit in the land of the north.”
Zech.6:9 The word of the LORD also came to me, saying,
Zech.6:10 “Receive an offering from the exiles, from Heldai, Tobijah and Jedaiah; who came from Babylon and you go the same day and enter the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah.
Zech.6:11 “Take silver and gold, make a crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.
Zech.6:12 “Then say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for he will branch out from where he is; and he will build the temple of the LORD.
Zech.6:13 He who will build the temple of the LORD, and it is he who will bear the honor and sit and rule on his throne. And he will be a priest on his throne and the counsel of peace will be between them both [priest and king].
Zech.6:14 “Now the crown will be to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah a reminder [of the coming Messiah] in the temple of the LORD.
Zech.6:15 “Those who are far away will come and build the temple of the LORD.” Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me [angel of the LORD/pre-incarnate Christ] to you. This will happen if you completely obey the voice of the LORD your God.”
Chapter Seven
Zech. 7:1 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.
Zech. 7:2 Now the town of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to seek the face [favor] of the LORD,
Zech. 7:3 speaking to the priests of the temple of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain from food, as I have done over the years?”
Zech. 7:4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
Zech. 7:5 “Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
Zech. 7:6 ‘When you were eating and drinking, do you not eat for yourselves and do you not drink for yourselves?
Zech. 7:7 ‘Are not these the words the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous along with its cities around it, and the Negev and the foothills Shephelah were inhabited?’”
Zech. 7:8 Then the word of the LORD came to Zechariah saying,
Zech. 7:9 “This is what the LORD of hosts has said, “‘Administer true justice and practice kindness and compassion each to his brother;
Zech. 7:10 and do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’
Zech. 7:11 “But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from hearing.
Zech. 7:12 “They made their hearts hard so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; So great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
Zech. 7:13 It came about that just as I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,” says the LORD of hosts.
Zech. 7:14 “but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land behind them is desolated so that no one went back and forth through it, for they made the desirable land, desolate.
Chapter Eight
Zech. 8:1 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying,
Zech. 8:2 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I am jealous for Zion, greatly jealous and with great wrath I am jealous for her.
Zech. 8:3 “Thus says the LORD, ‘I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.’
Zech. 8:4 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Old men and old women will again sit in the plazas of Jerusalem, each with his cane in his hand because of old age.
Zech. 8:5 ‘And the plazas of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.’
Zech. 8:6 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Though it may be difficult to understand in the eyes of the remainder of this Jewish people in those [future] days, will it also be difficult in my eyes?’ says the Lord of hosts.
Zech. 8:7 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Behold, I am going to save my people from the land of the east and from the land of the west;
Zech. 8:8 and I will bring them back and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.’
Zech. 8:9 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Let your hands be strong, you who are listening in these days to these words from the mouth of the prophets, who were there in the day of the founding of the house of the LORD of hosts so the temple might be built.
Zech. 8:10 ‘For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace from his enemy and I set all men one against another.
Zech. 8:11 ‘But now I will not be to the remaining of these people as I was in the former days,’ says the LORD of hosts.
Zech. 8:12 ‘For the seed of peace: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remaining of this people to inherit all these things.
Zech. 8:13 ‘It will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.’
Zech. 8:14 “For thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Just as I had determined to cause disaster to you, when your fathers made me angry’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘and I have not relented.’
Zech. 8:15 So now I have turned from that, I have determined in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Do not fear!
Zech. 8:16 ‘These are the things which you should do: speak the truth to one another; judge with true and sound judgments in you gates [courts].
Zech. 8:17 ‘Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love a false testimony; for all these are what I hate,’ declares the LORD.”
Zech. 8:18 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,
Zech. 8:19 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.’
Zech. 8:20 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘It will yet come to pass that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.
Zech. 8:21 ‘The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will also go.”
Zech. 8:22 ‘So many peoples and many nations will come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.’
Zech. 8:23 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘In those days ten men [people] from all languages and nations will grasp and grab hold of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”
Chapter Nine
Zech. 9:1 An oracle of the word of the LORD concerning the land of Hadrach, with its resting place on Damascus: for the eyes of men, and all the tribes of Israel, are toward the LORD.
Zech. 9:2 and also Hamath which borders on it [Damascus], Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
Zech. 9:3 For Tyre built herself a fortress And piled up silver like dust, And gold like the mire of the streets.
Zech. 9:4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her And cast her wealth into the sea; And she will be consumed with fire.
Zech. 9:5 Ashkelon will see it [Alexander’s army] and fear; Gaza too will writhe in great pain;
Also Ekron, for her hope will have been dried up. Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
Zech. 9:6 And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
Zech. 9:7 And I will remove their blood from their mouth And their detestable things from between their teeth. Then those also who remain will belong to our God and be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron like a Jebusite.
Zech. 9:8 Then I will encamp around my house [temple] as a guard from anyone crossing back and forth; and no oppressor will pass over them anymore. For now I have seen with my eyes.
Zech. 9:9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; he is righteous and and shows himself as Savior, humble, and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zech. 9:10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraimand the warhorse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be cut off and He will speak peace to the nations; and His dominion will be from sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zech. 9:11 As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Zech. 9:12 Return to the stronghold, O prisoners who have the hope; This very day I am declaring that I will restore double to you.
Zech. 9:13 I will bend Judah as my bow; I will fill the bow with Ephraim and I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece and I will make you, Zion like a warrior’s sword.
Zech. 9:14 Then the LORD will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, he will march in the storm-winds of the south.
Zech. 9:15 The LORD of hosts will defend them, and they will devour and trample on sling stones. Then they will drink and be boisterous as with wine;
and they will be filled like a sacrificial basin,
like the corners of the altar.
Zech. 9:16 And the LORD their God will save them on that day as the flock of His people; For they are as the precious stones of a crown, sparkling over his land.
Zech. 9:17 For how great is his [the Messiah’s] goodness and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.
Chapter Ten
Zech. 10:1 Ask rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain—the LORD who makes the storm clouds and he will give showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man.
Zech. 10:2 For the teraphim have spoken wickedness, and the diviners see lies and they speak false dreams; they comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep. They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.
Zech. 10:3 “My anger is inflamed against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats (leaders).
For the LORD of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic warhorse in battle.
Zech. 10:4 “From him will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the bow of battle, from him every tyrannical ruler together.
Zech. 10:5 “They will be as warriors, trampling in the mire of the streets in war. They will fight, for the LORD will be with them, and will shame the enemy cavalry.
Zech. 10:6 “I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will deliver the house of Joseph and I will restore them because I have compassion on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.
Zech. 10:7 “The Ephraimites will be like warriors and will rejoice as if from drinking wine. And their children will see and rejoice. Their heart will rejoice in the LORD.
Zech. 10:8 “I will hiss [signal] for them and gather them, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they were before.
Zech. 10:9 “Though I sowed them among the peoples [nations], they will remember me in distant countries, they will live with their children and return.
Zech. 10:10 “I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria; And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon and there will not be enough room for them.
Zech. 10:11 “He [the LORD] will cross over the sea, distress and calm its waves in the sea. The depths of the Nile will dry up. And the pride of Assyria will be brought down and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
Zech. 10:12 “And I will strengthen them in the Lord, and in his name they will walk,” declares the Lord.
Chapter Eleven
Zech. 11:1 Open your gates, Lebanon, so that a fire may consume your cedars.
Zech. 11:2 Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the inaccessible forest has fallen.
Zech. 11:3 There is a sound of the wail of a shepherd,for their glory is ruined;There is a sound of the young lions’ roar, beause the thicket of the Jordan is ruined.
Zech. 11:4 Thus says the LORD my God, “Shepherd the flock going to slaughter.
Zech. 11:5 Those who buy them slaughter them and do not get punished. Those who sell them say ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them.
Zech. 11:6 For I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hand of his neighbor and the hand of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”
Zech. 11:7 So I shepherded the flock going to slaughter, particularly the most afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.
Zech. 11:8 Then I destroyed the three shepherds in one month, for I was impatient with them and they were weary of me.
Zech. 11:9 Then I said, “I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”
Zech. 11:10 I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
Zech. 11:11 So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD.
Zech. 11:12 I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, keep it!” So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.
Zech. 11:13 Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter, that exorbitant price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
Zech. 11:14 Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Zech. 11:15 The LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
Zech. 11:16 “For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.
Zech. 11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered, his right eye completely blinded!”
Chapter Twelve
Zech. 12:1 An oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. An utterance of the LORD who spread the heavens established the earth and forms the spirit of man within him.
Zech. 12:2 “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all nations around. When the siege happens against Jerusalem, it will also come against Judah.
Zech. 12:3 “It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy rock for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.
Zech. 12:4 “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness. But over the house of Judah, I will watch with my eyes but I will strike all the horses of the peoples with blindness.
Zech. 12:5 “Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strong support to us in the LORD of hosts, their God.’
Zech. 12:6 “In that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot among wood and a burning torch among sheaves, so they will consume all the surrounding peoples on their right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem still inhabitant its [their] place in Jerusalem.
Zech. 12:7 “The LORD also will deliver the homes of Judah first, so that the splendor of the kingship of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be over that of Judah.
Zech. 12:8 “In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and it will so happen that the feeblest among them in that day will be like David and the house of David will be like God like the angel of the LORD before them.
Zech. 12:9 “And in that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zech. 12:10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and supplication: and they will look to me whom they have pierced and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
Zech. 12:11 On that day the lamentation in Jerusalem will be as great as the lamentation at Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Zech. 12:12 The land will mourn, clan by clan: the clan of the royal household of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the clan of the family of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves;
Zech. 12:13 the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves;
Zech. 12:14 all the clans that remain clan by clan by itself and their wives by themselves.
Chapter Thirteen
Zech. 13:1 “In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for [cleansing from] sin and for impurity.
Zech. 13:2 “It will come about in that day,” declares the LORD of hosts,“that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
Zech. 13:3 “And if it happens that anyone still prophesies,
then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord’; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.
Zech. 13:4 “Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;
Zech. 13:5 but he will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I am a man who tills the soil, for a man has caused one to buy me to sell me from my youth.
Zech. 13:6 “And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my loved ones.’
Zech. 13:7 “Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man, my equal,” declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
Zech. 13:8 It will happen in all the land, declares the LORD, “That two thirds of the people in it will be cut off and perish; and one third will be left in it.
Zech. 13:9 “And I will bring the third part through the fire, refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ And they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”
Chapter Fourteen
Zech. 14:1 Behold, a day is coming for the LORD when your spoil will be divided in your midst.
Zech. 14:2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women raped and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Zech. 14:3 Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
Zech. 14:4 In that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very large valley; half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south.
Zech. 14:5 Then you will flee by the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal; You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with him!
Zech. 14:6 It will happen in that day that there will be no light: luminaries will dwindle.
Zech. 14:7 It will be a unique day which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but it will come about that at evening time there will be light.
Zech. 14:8 And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will happen in summer and in winter.
Zech. 14:9 And the LORD will be king over all the earth; in that day the LORD will be one, and his name one.
Zech. 14:10 All the land will be made like the Arabah from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to wine presses of the king.
Zech. 14:11 They will live in it, and there will no longer be a curse, for Jerusalem will dwell in security.
Zech. 14:12 Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who waged war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while standing on their feet and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.
Zech. 14:13 It will happen on that day that a great panic from the LORD will be on them; and they will seize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will be lifted to strike against the hand of another.
Zech. 14:14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance.
Zech. 14:15 So also like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.
Zech. 14:16 Then it will happen that all who survive from all the nations that went against Jerusalem, they will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Zech. 14:17 And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.
Zech. 14:18 If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; there will be the plague with which the LORD will afflict the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Zech. 14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
Zech. 14:20 In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the cooking pots in the LORD’S house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Zech. 14:21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts in that day.